Re: [PATCH] Version 3 (2.6.23-rc8) Smack: Simplified Mandatory Access Control Kernel

Bill Davidsen
2007-10-08T23:20:38Z

Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
> (tongue-in-cheek)
>
> No no, everyone knows you don't build simpler things on top of more
> complicated ones, you go the other way around. So what he was
> suggesting was that selinux be re-written on top of smack.
>

Having gone from proposing a simpler and easier to use security system
as an alternative to SELinux, you now propose to change the one working
security system we have. And yes, it's hard to use, but it works. Let's
keep this a patch, people who want adventure can have one, and people
who have gotten Linux accepted "if SELinux is enabled" will avoid one.

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bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
CTO TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979