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From: "Christopher J. PeBenito" <cpebenito@tresys.com>
To: dE <de.techno@gmail.com>, <selinux@tycho.nsa.gov>
Subject: Re: How does SELinux work without roles?
Date: Mon, 19 May 2014 12:54:44 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <537A3754.3020506@tresys.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <537992DF.9050806@gmail.com>

On 05/19/2014 01:13 AM, dE wrote:
> RBAC is completely optional in SELinux; however there appears to be no way to specify the allowed types for a particular user without specifying roles.
> 
> Without this, there'll be no enforcement.

You still need to have user->role and role->type associations, but you can simply have one role and remove any constraints related to roles.  You cannot completely disable the RBAC mechanism like you can disable MLS.

-- 
Chris PeBenito
Tresys Technology, LLC
www.tresys.com | oss.tresys.com

  reply	other threads:[~2014-05-19 16:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-05-19  5:13 How does SELinux work without roles? dE
2014-05-19 16:54 ` Christopher J. PeBenito [this message]
2014-05-19 16:52   ` dE

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