From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <4730E322.4020203@tycho.nsa.gov> Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2007 16:56:50 -0500 From: Eamon Walsh MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joshua Brindle CC: Stephen Smalley , SELinux List Subject: Re: [PATCH] libselinux: introduce enforcing mode override option References: <471F8F8D.3040606@tycho.nsa.gov> <1193935864.12018.107.camel@moss-spartans.epoch.ncsc.mil> <472F79D5.6020903@tycho.nsa.gov> <4730D9A6.6050306@manicmethod.com> In-Reply-To: <4730D9A6.6050306@manicmethod.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Sender: owner-selinux@tycho.nsa.gov List-Id: selinux@tycho.nsa.gov Joshua Brindle wrote: > Eamon Walsh wrote: >> Introduces an enforcing mode override option, so the object manager >> can bring up the AVC in permissive mode on an enforcing system, or >> vice versa. >> > > This is probably more useful but we actually had something like this > with the userspace security server where you could run the USS in > permissive or enforcing independent of the kernel security server. > Ofcourse this would mean its still a global setting across all access > managers using the USS. > Interesting, I would think that the USS would only serve up "raw" decisions like the kernel security server does. The permissive setting is a construct of the AVC layer. -- Eamon Walsh National Security Agency -- 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.