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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: "Stephen D. Smalley" <sds@epoch.ncsc.mil>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-security-module@wirex.com
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] Add LSM sysctl hook to 2.5.59
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 00:08:53 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030120000853.A9023@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200301172154.QAA00757@moss-shockers.ncsc.mil>; from sds@epoch.ncsc.mil on Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 04:54:37PM -0500

On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 04:54:37PM -0500, Stephen D. Smalley wrote:
> 
> This patch adds a LSM sysctl hook for controlling access to
> sysctl variables to 2.5.59, split out from the lsm-2.5 BitKeeper tree.
> SELinux uses this hook to control such accesses in accordance with the
> security policy configuration.

I'm not very happy with this hook.  This means every single security
module needs a list of all sensitive sysctl variables, i.e. we duplicate
information in (possible a large number of) different places.

What's the reason you can't just live with DAC for sysctls?


  reply	other threads:[~2003-01-19 23:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-01-17 21:54 [RFC][PATCH] Add LSM sysctl hook to 2.5.59 Stephen D. Smalley
2003-01-20  0:08 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2003-01-20  0:39   ` Russell Coker
2003-01-20  0:43     ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-01-20  1:05       ` Russell Coker
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-01-21 14:51 Stephen D. Smalley

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