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From: Linda Knippers <linda.knippers@hp.com>
To: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Cc: Matt Anderson <mra@hp.com>,
	Darrel Goeddel <dgoeddel@TrustedCS.com>,
	selinux@tycho.nsa.gov
Subject: Re: context_sensitivity_{get|set}
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 16:36:18 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <452FF8C2.7080104@hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1160757623.14346.84.camel@moss-spartans.epoch.ncsc.mil>

Stephen Smalley wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 12:21 -0400, Matt Anderson wrote:
> 
>>I agree names are a bit confusing, I was at a loss for what to call them
>>myself and decided to defer to the output from secon:
>>
>># secon
>>user: root
>>role: staff_r
>>type: staff_t
>>sensitivity: SystemLow
>>clearance: SystemHigh
>>mls-range: SystemLow-SystemHigh
>>
>>For my usage I need the entire low level.  There may be other users want
>>just the sensitivity, but I'd be concerned that information would be
>>unintentionally downgraded by leaving off categories.
> 
> 
> I think unfortunately secon and the audit interface were polluted by a
> limited notion of the MLS model.  Proper terms are low level and high
> level, not sensitivity and clearance.

Is it too late to clean up these tools?  With audit, is it just changing
the names of the parameters in some of the user space tools?

-- ljk


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  reply	other threads:[~2006-10-13 20:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-12 19:19 context_sensitivity_{get|set} Matt Anderson
2006-10-13 14:04 ` context_sensitivity_{get|set} Stephen Smalley
2006-10-13 15:47   ` context_sensitivity_{get|set} Klaus Weidner
2006-10-13 16:18     ` context_sensitivity_{get|set} Paul Moore
2006-10-13 16:26       ` context_sensitivity_{get|set} Paul Moore
2006-10-13 17:24         ` context_sensitivity_{get|set} Klaus Weidner
2006-10-13 16:32       ` context_sensitivity_{get|set} Stephen Smalley
2006-10-13 16:21   ` context_sensitivity_{get|set} Matt Anderson
2006-10-13 16:40     ` context_sensitivity_{get|set} Stephen Smalley
2006-10-13 20:36       ` Linda Knippers [this message]
2006-10-13 20:54         ` context_sensitivity_{get|set} Stephen Smalley
2006-10-13 16:58     ` context_sensitivity_{get|set} Casey Schaufler
2006-10-13 18:47       ` context_sensitivity_{get|set} Stephen Smalley
2006-10-13 19:43         ` context_sensitivity_{get|set} Casey Schaufler
2006-10-13 20:03           ` context_sensitivity_{get|set} Stephen Smalley
2006-10-13 21:38             ` context_sensitivity_{get|set} Casey Schaufler
2006-10-13 22:06               ` context_sensitivity_{get|set} Joe Nall

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