Re: Information about XSELinux

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On Mon, 2012-07-16 at 18:10 +0200, Ole Kliemann wrote:
> Hi everyone!
> 
> I'm desperately trying to implement proper privilege seperation 
> while using X.
> 
> Currently I'm looking into XSELinux but am having a really hard 
> time finding any information, documention etc.
> 

Some of this could be out of date, but it should get you started.

http://www.nsa.gov/research/_files/selinux/papers/xorg07-abs.shtml
http://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.5/doc/security/XACE-Spec.html
http://selinuxproject.org/page/NB_XWIN
http://selinuxproject.org/page/Experimenting_With_X-Windows#Calling_the_XSELinux_Functions

> What's the development status?
> Where can I get it?
> Is it included in any major distributions? (Currently using 
> Ubuntu 12.04)
> 

It is in Fedora.
Enable the xserver_object_manager_boolean (setsebool -P
xserver_object_manager=1) and restart the X server.

The file /etc/selinux/POLICY/contexts/x_contexts contains an X event to
context mapping.

The xserver module contains the current policy for the X server.

-- 
James Carter <jwcart2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
National Security Agency


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