Re: [Linux-privs-discuss] SELinux & Linux-privs projects

[Christoph Hellwig <hch@ns.caldera.de>]

On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 09:44:54AM -0500, Jeffry Smith wrote:
> Sent to both lists
> Since I hadn't seen any traffic on the two lists about the other project, I 
> thought I'd cross-send a message, to ensure the two communities are aware of 
> what the other is doing.  I figure, although the projects are tackling 
> different parts of the security of linux, there should be some overlap, since 
> privileges should make it easier to do the type enforcement (I think), and the 

Linux-privs and other Posix1003.1e subsystems currenlty in development
for Linux provide a UNIXish way of trusted systems, while SELinux
implements ruleset-based security and is rather differnt and put
policy into the kernel, something that is dtringly disliked in UNIX.

So they are two rather different ways to archive the same goal.

	Christoph

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