Re: [RESEND][RFC][PATCH 2/7] implementation of LSM hooks

Gerrit Huizenga
2006-04-17T22:16:42Z

On Mon, 17 Apr 2006 15:31:08 EDT, James Morris wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Apr 2006, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
>
> > Hopefully a new version of evm+slim+ima will be ready for distribution
> > soon.
>
> Why are you still trying to introduce yet another access control model
> into the kernel, when SELinux is already there?

I get the impression from customers that SELinux is so painful to
configure correctly that most of them disable it. In theory, LSM +
something like AppArmour provides a much simpler security model for
normal human beings who want some level of configuration. Also,
the current SELinux config in RH is starting to have a measureable
performance impact. I'm not sure this particular battle of the
security models is quite over from a real user perspective.

gerrit