The reference policy is getting an increasing number of domains and types with an O(N^2) level of complexity for writing policy and an O(N^2) size of the binary policy. In 2012 the binary policy on my machines was 560k, now it's over 2M. In recent policy we have 6 different domains for systemd-generators. What benefit are we expecting to get from this? Are we anticipating that one generator will attack another? How would having separate domains for generators do any good when there's no restriction on the contents of the files they generate and nothing to prevent one generator from creating a file of the name that another generator is expected to create? Is it even reasonable to expect that a program that can create a systemd unit file with arbitrary content (IE being able to start any daemon with arbitrary configuration and command-line parameters) would be unable to exploit that for unrestricted root access? We have a new set of domains, user_wm_t, staff_wm_t, etc. What is that for? Is someone using the X controls and in need of a privileged window manager domain to manage the clipboard etc? Why is staff_wm_t needed when we no longer have staff_gpg_t? Does staff_r even make sense when you could just use different MCS categories for different users? We have one games_t domain for games which were packaged by the distribution. Is this possible to give a useful benefit given that they some games the same XDG config directories as more important things. If a game has the file access needed to grab passwords from your MUA and network access to send them out then is there a real benefit in having a separate domain for it? As an aside I think that the ideal thing to do would be to have a SETGID program to manage passwords for email etc that prevents the user from accessing them, it could then proxy IMAP/SMTP connections so the MUA never knows the real passwords. We have special *_cronjob_t domains which in systems that use them (IE not Debian) seem to give the potential for nothing but confusion. The general expectation is that anything which can run as a user login session can also run as a cron job. What benefit is this expected to provide? -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/
