Re: [TOMOYO 14/15] Conditional permission support.

From: Kyle Moffett
Date: Mon Aug 27 2007 - 08:11:52 EST


On Aug 25, 2007, at 22:13:48, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
Pavel Machek wrote:
What is that? Language parser in kernel?

Yes. This is a policy parser in kernel.

TOMOYO Linux' policy is passed from/to the kernel as a plain text (i.e. ASCII printable) file via /proc/tomoyo interface.

For example, to add a permission to allow /usr/sbin/sshd to execute /bin/bash if the authenticated user's uid = 500, the administrator runs

# /bin/cat > /proc/tomoyo/domain_policy << EOF
select <kernel> /usr/sbin/sshd
1 /bin/bash if task.uid=500
EOF

This is probably not acceptable; I doubt there's a chance in hell that TOMOYO will get merged as long as it has text-based-language parsing in the kernel. You also have $NEW_RANDOM_ABUSE_OF_PROCFS and $PATH_BASED_LSM_ISSUES. See the long flamewars on AppArmor for discussion on the latter.

Cheers,
Kyle Moffett

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