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From: Klaus Weidner <klaus@atsec.com>
To: "Christopher J. PeBenito" <cpebenito@tresys.com>
Cc: SELinux Mail List <selinux@tycho.nsa.gov>, joe@nall.com
Subject: Re: MLS directory write constraints
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 16:02:56 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070820210256.GB23508@w-m-p.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1187613297.27524.10.camel@gorn>

On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 08:34:57AM -0400, Christopher J. PeBenito wrote:
> But since creating or deleting a file in a directory requires write and
> add_name or remove_name, respectively, you still must have equality in
> level to create a file in /var/run.  Because of this, I believe there
> potentially are superfluous write downs for daemons that don't run in
> system low.  I think the constraints should be changed to this:

Here's a link to a previous discussion on this list about the
directory constraints:

  http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/list-archive/0612/18627.cfm

(Subject "[PATCH RFC 0/2] stricter MLS policy constraints", Dec 12 2006)

-Klaus

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2007-08-20 21:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-20 12:34 MLS directory write constraints Christopher J. PeBenito
2007-08-20 20:52 ` Klaus Weidner
2007-08-21 13:10   ` Christopher J. PeBenito
2007-08-23 23:05     ` Klaus Weidner
2007-08-24 14:10       ` Christopher J. PeBenito
2007-08-20 21:02 ` Klaus Weidner [this message]

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