Hi!
> >So, AA developers, do you have such a document anywhere? I know there
> >are some old research papers, do they properly describe the current
> >model you are trying to implement here?
>
> Greg,
> to implement the AA approach useing SELinux you need to have a way that
> files that are renamed or created get tagged with the right label
> automaticaly with no possible race condition.
>
> If this can be done then it _may_ be possible to do the job that AA is
> aimed at with SELinux, but the work nessasary to figure out what lables
> are needed on what file would still make it a non-trivial task.
>
> as I understand it SELinux puts one label on each file, so if you have
> three files accessed by two programs such that
> program A accesses files X Y
> program B accesses files Y Z
>
> then files X Y and Z all need seperate labels with the policy stateing
> that program A need to access labels X, Y and program B needs to access
> files Y Z
>
> extended out this can come close to giving each file it's own label. AA
> essentially does this and calls the label the path and computes it at
> runtime instead of storing it somewhere.
Yes, and in the process, AA stores compiled regular expressions in
kernel. Ouch. I'll take "each file it's own label" over _that_ any time.
Pavel
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