Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 18 Dec 2007 19:28:42 -0800 | From | Crispin Cowan <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 08/28] SECURITY: Allow kernel services to override LSM settings for task actions [try #2] |
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Stephen Smalley wrote: >> It is if I have to maintain a special pieces of code for each possible LSM. >> One piece for SELinux, one piece for AppArmour, one piece for Smack, one piece >> for Casey's security system. That sounds like a pain. >> > All your code has to do is invoke a function provided by libselinux. If > at some later time a liblsm is introduced that provides a common > front-end to a libselinux, libsmack, ..., then you can use that. But it > doesn't exist today. But it all just becomes a simple function call > regardless. > libapparmor exists. It only had one API, and now it has 2, but just 2 versions on the same concept (change_hat and change_profile).
This is the API for change_hat http://man-wiki.net/index.php/2:change_hat
What does the corresponding API in SELinux look like?
Crispin
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