Re: RFC: Network privilege separation.

From: Herbert Xu
Date: Thu Jan 08 2009 - 07:10:54 EST


Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> That to me says controlling network access is only useful as part of a
> more fine grained and general purpose interface. We already have that
> interface in the form of things like SELinux. We already have systems
> actively using it to control stuff like which ports are accessed by some
> services.

Exactly. If people want this they should go the SELinux/LSM route.

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