From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from jazzhorn.ncsc.mil (mummy.ncsc.mil [144.51.88.129]) by tarius.tycho.ncsc.mil (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k9SHoi9T013018 for ; Sat, 28 Oct 2006 13:50:44 -0400 Received: from exchange.columbia.tresys.com (jazzhorn.ncsc.mil [144.51.5.9]) by jazzhorn.ncsc.mil (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id k9SHnwdQ017724 for ; Sat, 28 Oct 2006 17:49:58 GMT Message-ID: <4543985C.4000002@tresys.com> Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2006 13:50:20 -0400 From: Joshua Brindle MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Salvo Giuffrida CC: selinux@tycho.nsa.gov Subject: Re: Object manager for X-Window References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Sender: owner-selinux@tycho.nsa.gov List-Id: selinux@tycho.nsa.gov Salvo Giuffrida wrote: > I saw that the file flask/access_vectors in the policy source > directory has definitions also for graphic objects (window, drawable, > font, etc...). Does this mean that the default kernel-space object > manager is able to enforce a TE/MLS policy also to X objects? > Thanks No, clearly the kernel does not know what a window or cursor are, X enforces the decisions that it gets from the security server in the kernel. -- This message was distributed to subscribers of the selinux mailing list. If you no longer wish to subscribe, send mail to majordomo@tycho.nsa.gov with the words "unsubscribe selinux" without quotes as the message.