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On 04/07/14 17:24, Stephen Smalley wrote:
> On 04/07/2014 05:24 AM, dE wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> Sorry for the trival question; but on reading various SELinux resources,
>> it appears everyone talks about some 'domain' but no one defines what is
>> it.
>>
>> So I wanna what what is a domain in SELinux.
> See:
> http://www.nsa.gov/research/_files/selinux/papers/policy2/x86.shtml
>

So domain is a SELinux identifier of a process and it's not necessary to 
for each process to have a unique SELinux domain.

I didn't know NSA hosted docs also. Thanks! I'll refer to them instead.