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From: Tom <tom@lemuria.org>
To: SELinux Mail List <selinux@tycho.nsa.gov>
Subject: Re: BSD Secure levels for linux
Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 21:46:35 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031127214635.I7755@lemuria.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3FC61C05.90400@diyab.net>; from diyab@diyab.net on Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 10:45:09AM -0500

On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 10:45:09AM -0500, Diyab wrote:
> I never thought about something like that.  On the plus side not only 
> would you have more control over what your specific "levels" will do but 
> you can easily and securely switch between levels.  The patch I 
> mentioned does not have that functionality.

Remember that it's a _feature_ of the securelevels implementation that
you can _not_ switch back. Once locked down, nothing short of a reboot
will unlock, and a reboot is a very noisy action in any production
environment.


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  reply	other threads:[~2003-11-27 20:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-11-27  0:29 BSD Secure levels for linux Diyab
2003-11-27  2:26 ` Russell Coker
2003-11-27 15:45   ` Diyab
2003-11-27 20:46     ` Tom [this message]
2003-11-27 22:32       ` Russell Coker
2003-11-27 19:45 ` Roberto Nibali

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