Re: [AppArmor 39/45] AppArmor: Profile loading and manipulation, pathname matching

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Fri Jun 29 2007 - 08:30:18 EST


Hi!

One more...

> 2. This is argument #1 in a different guise and I find it about as weak.
> Pathname-based access control has strengths and weaknesses. I think
> users and Linux distributions are in a better position to evaluate those
> tradeoffs than L-K. Competition is good.

It took you quite a lot of time to realize AA does not do IPC (and all
the implications of that). I do not think Linux _users_ can do
informed decision here. Novell marketing did too good job here.

Heck, even I am not sure if I understand the implications of not doing
IPC confinement. Is shared memory commonly used in a way that allows
exploiting? I know it is a problem, and you probably could kill init
from hacked apache..... but what would you do to break out of jail?

Pavel
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