Re: [Fwd: Security alert message on startup]

From: Chris Wright (chrisw@private)
Date: Thu Oct 21 2004 - 11:06:49 PDT


* Stephen Smalley (sds@private) wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've seen people ask about this warning several times, understandably,
> as it gives the appearance that something is wrong, whereas it just
> indicates that there is already a primary security module and the
> requesting security module needs to fall back as a secondary (which the
> capability module does).  Perhaps register_security() shouldn't be
> displaying error messages itself, and defer this to the caller?  The
> capability module correctly only displays a message if it also fails to
> register as a secondary module.  Not a big deal to me, but as I've seen
> user questions about it, it does seem to be a source of confusion...

Yeah, I've seen that as well.  It'll be fixed shortly.
thanks,
-chris
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