From: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
To: David Lang <david.lang@digitalinsight.com>
Cc: Rob Meijer <capibara@xs4all.nl>,
Karl MacMillan <kmacmill@redhat.com>,
John Johansen <jjohansen@suse.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: AppArmor FAQ
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 09:33:29 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Line.LNX.4.64.0704180923260.25495@d.namei> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0704180001160.2442@qynat.qvtvafvgr.pbz>
On Wed, 18 Apr 2007, David Lang wrote:
> SELinux is designed to be able to make the box safe against root, AA is
> designed to let the admin harden exposed apps without having to think about
> the other things on the system.
This is not correct.
SELinux was designed as an access control framework which allows various
security models to be composed in a controlled and consistent manner,
covering all security-relevant interactions in the system.
The type enforcement model included with it provides a means to address
both integrity and confidentiality requirements. It _can_ protect you
against root, if that's what you want (in fact, the Russell Coker "play
box" was online for many years with a published root password), but it
does not have to.
Indeed, since Fedora Core 3, the default SELinux policy has been
"targeted", which is aimed at confining exposed applications.
- James
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James Morris
<jmorris@namei.org>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-18 13:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-16 21:33 AppArmor FAQ John Johansen
2007-04-17 0:20 ` James Morris
2007-04-17 15:03 ` David Safford
2007-04-17 16:00 ` Karl MacMillan
2007-04-17 18:05 ` Andi Kleen
2007-04-17 17:47 ` James Morris
2007-04-17 18:10 ` Andi Kleen
2007-04-17 20:19 ` Casey Schaufler
2007-04-17 20:50 ` James Morris
2007-04-17 21:16 ` Andi Kleen
2007-04-17 21:41 ` Karl MacMillan
2007-04-17 22:12 ` Andi Kleen
2007-04-17 22:29 ` Karl MacMillan
2007-04-17 21:58 ` Alan Cox
2007-04-18 13:45 ` James Morris
2007-04-18 14:33 ` Shaya Potter
2007-04-18 19:41 ` Crispin Cowan
2007-04-18 20:03 ` Shaya Potter
2007-04-18 21:14 ` James Morris
2007-04-19 17:14 ` Stephen Smalley
2007-06-09 21:01 ` Pavel Machek
2007-06-09 21:28 ` david
2007-06-09 23:02 ` Pavel Machek
2007-06-10 0:06 ` david
2007-04-18 20:15 ` David Lang
2007-04-19 17:27 ` Stephen Smalley
2007-04-17 21:48 ` Karl MacMillan
2007-04-17 23:12 ` Casey Schaufler
2007-04-17 22:26 ` Karl MacMillan
2007-04-19 17:46 ` Stephen Smalley
2007-04-20 18:45 ` David Lang
2007-04-20 19:23 ` Karl MacMillan
2007-04-17 23:09 ` Crispin Cowan
2007-04-17 23:20 ` Karl MacMillan
2007-04-19 17:56 ` Stephen Smalley
2007-04-17 21:55 ` Karl MacMillan
2007-04-17 22:55 ` Crispin Cowan
2007-04-17 23:13 ` Karl MacMillan
2007-06-09 14:11 ` Pavel Machek
2007-04-18 7:21 ` Rob Meijer
2007-04-18 7:08 ` David Lang
2007-04-18 13:33 ` James Morris [this message]
2007-04-18 12:15 ` Joshua Brindle
2007-04-18 13:31 ` Casey Schaufler
2007-04-18 14:05 ` Rob Meijer
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