Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 4 Jun 2020 12:13:09 +1000 (AEST) | From | James Morris <> | Subject | Re: [GIT PULL] SELinux patches for v5.8 |
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On Wed, 3 Jun 2020, Casey Schaufler wrote:
> On 6/3/2020 3:12 PM, James Morris wrote: > > On Wed, 3 Jun 2020, Casey Schaufler wrote: > > > >> The use of security modules was expected to be rare. > > This is not correct. Capabilities were ported to LSM and stacked from the > > beginning, and several major distros worked on LSM so they could ship > > their own security modules. > > Capabilities has always been a special case. > Until Android adopted SELinux the actual use of LSMs was rare.
Nope, it was enabled by default in several distros and very widely deployed in the govt space (at least).
-- James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
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