[rsbac] get current role

Amon Ott ao at rsbac.org
Fri Nov 28 09:02:56 CET 2003


On Donnerstag, 27. November 2003 15:54, Amon Ott wrote:
> On Donnerstag, 27. November 2003 14:30, Bencsath Boldizsar wrote:
> > I've just tried to make some example programs to support teaching what
> > rsbac does, but figured out that it seems there is currently no way to
> > query the role id of the current process?
> > rsbac_rc_sys_change_role, etc. only changes the role, but I've found (in
> > the header files) no way to ask which role I am running currently. (1.2.2)
> > Is there any such function or documentation about these functions?
> 
> The official way is rc_get_item() - processes are not supposed to know their 
> current role, unless explicitely granted.

Sorry for the nonsense with rc_get_item(), I should not try to do more than 
three things at a time. :(

It is of course attr_get_process, because the RC current role is a process 
attribute:
attr_get_process RC <pid> rc_role

Amon.
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