From: Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl@lkcl.net>
To: Colin Walters <walters@verbum.org>
Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@epoch.ncsc.mil>, SE-Linux <selinux@tycho.nsa.gov>
Subject: Re: xen 2.0 - adding selinux permissions
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 20:19:50 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041124201950.GA15740@lkcl.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1101319995.30763.11.camel@nexus.verbum.private>
On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 01:13:15PM -0500, Colin Walters wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-11-24 at 15:49 +0000, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
>
> > okay, regarding the second argument to avc_has_perm(),
> > i asked the nice xen developers if it'd be possible to
> > associate a sid with each virtual machine.
>
> When would you want a process to be able to control one Xen machine but
> not another?
i described such a scenario in an earlier message today to stephen:
giving an operator-admin the right to reboot a VM running a SQL server
but NOT giving that same operator the right to reboot the master OS
which, if you rebooted that, would take down every single VM with it.
l.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-11-24 20:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-11-23 22:03 xen 2.0 - adding selinux permissions Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2004-11-24 13:39 ` Stephen Smalley
2004-11-24 15:09 ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2004-11-24 15:06 ` Stephen Smalley
2004-11-24 15:49 ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2004-11-24 15:54 ` Stephen Smalley
2004-11-24 17:10 ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2004-11-24 18:13 ` Colin Walters
2004-11-24 20:19 ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton [this message]
2004-11-25 1:15 ` Colin Walters
2004-11-25 9:22 ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
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