From: Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com>
To: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Cc: selinux@tycho.nsa.gov, Eric Paris <eparis@parisplace.org>,
Karl MacMillan <kmacmillan@mentalrootkit.com>,
James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Subject: Re: Time to remove compat_net?
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 16:33:33 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200708301633.33632.paul.moore@hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1188504744.26572.361.camel@moss-spartans.epoch.ncsc.mil>
On Thursday, August 30 2007 4:12:24 pm Stephen Smalley wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-08-30 at 16:07 -0400, Paul Moore wrote:
> > Does anyone have any objections to placing the compat_net code on the
> > kernel's "feature removal schedule" (I'd go for removal in 2/2008, six
> > months from now)? SECMARK can do everything that the older compat_net
> > controls can do, and it does it with less overhead and a cleaner
> > implementation.
>
> I'd be happy to see it go (conditional checks considered harmful), but a
> good starting point would be to get secmark turned on in Fedora (it was
> still off last I looked) and verify that nothing breaks.
>
> We also don't have any tools capable of managing secmark today; with the
> legacy controls, we could labels ports and netifs via semanage. Only
> secmark userland integration to date has been the basic iptables command
> line support.
Okay RedHat guys ... are there any plans to migrate semanage over to using the
SECMARK controls? If not, what do you need (besides patches to semanage) to
make the transition?
--
paul moore
linux security @ hp
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-30 20:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-30 20:07 Time to remove compat_net? Paul Moore
2007-08-30 20:12 ` Stephen Smalley
2007-08-30 20:33 ` Paul Moore [this message]
2007-09-03 15:02 ` Karl MacMillan
2007-09-04 0:37 ` Joshua Brindle
2007-09-04 11:38 ` Paul Moore
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