Re: [PATCH] Smack: Simplified Mandatory Access Control Kernel

[Kyle Moffett]

On Aug 12, 2007, at 22:36:15, Joshua Brindle wrote:
> Kyle Moffett wrote:
> > On Aug 12, 2007, at 15:41:46, Casey Schaufler wrote:
> > > Your boolean solution requires more forthought than the Smack  
> > > rule solution, but I'll give it to you once you've fleshed out  
> > > your "##" lines.
> >
> > How does it require more forethought?  When I want to turn it on,  
> > I write and load the 5 line policy then add the cronjobs.  Yours  
> > involves giving cron unconditional permission to write to your  
> > security database (always a bad idea) and then adding similar  
> > cronjobs.
>
> nit: without the selinux policy server (which is not production  
> ready by any means) we have to grant the same to cron in this case  
> (or at least to the domain that cron runs the cronjobs in). SELinux  
> and Smack alike need special permissions to modify the running  
> policy, no surprises there.

Yeah, I figured this out a couple minutes ago.  Turns out you can get  
a similar effect with a little properly labeled shell script though  
(text included in my last email), but it does decrease overall system  
security.

Cheers,
Kyle Moffett

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