Re: [PATCH] Version 4 (2.6.23-rc8-mm2) Smack: Simplified Mandatory Access Control Kernel

[Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>]

--- Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:

> > Absolute paths in that kind of thing are _wrong_.  You know where the
> things
> > are on your fs.  You don't know if anything else will be visible, let alone
> > whether it will be at the same place in all chroots or namespaces.  And no,
> > you _can't_ make sure that fs is visible only in one place.  No fs can or
> > has any business even trying.
> 
> What I don't understand here is why we need the hacks when we already
> support sufficient mount magic to give each login session its own
> private /tmp ?

An embedded system that does not have user logins but that does
have applications that require separation, perhaps a moble communication
device with application download capability, is just one example
where the smack symlink implementation provides the required
function without requiring application support.
 

Casey Schaufler
casey@schaufler-ca.com