Re: [AppArmor 01/41] Pass struct vfsmount to the inode_create LSMhook

From: Casey Schaufler
Date: Tue May 29 2007 - 11:52:28 EST



--- Tetsuo Handa <from-lsm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


> Conventional UNIX's access control can't restrict
> which path_to_file can link with which another_path_to_file
> because UNIX's access control is a label-based access control.

UNIX access control is attribute based, not label based. The
distinction may be hair splitting in the current context, but
could be significant later if the thread continues.




Casey Schaufler
casey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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