On Wed, 18 Apr 2007, David Lang wrote: > SELinux is designed to be able to make the box safe against root, AA is > designed to let the admin harden exposed apps without having to think about > the other things on the system. This is not correct. SELinux was designed as an access control framework which allows various security models to be composed in a controlled and consistent manner, covering all security-relevant interactions in the system. The type enforcement model included with it provides a means to address both integrity and confidentiality requirements. It _can_ protect you against root, if that's what you want (in fact, the Russell Coker "play box" was online for many years with a published root password), but it does not have to. Indeed, since Fedora Core 3, the default SELinux policy has been "targeted", which is aimed at confining exposed applications. - James -- James Morris <jmorris@xxxxxxxxx> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
