Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 20 Jan 2003 00:08:53 +0000 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH] Add LSM sysctl hook to 2.5.59 |
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On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 04:54:37PM -0500, Stephen D. Smalley wrote: > > This patch adds a LSM sysctl hook for controlling access to > sysctl variables to 2.5.59, split out from the lsm-2.5 BitKeeper tree. > SELinux uses this hook to control such accesses in accordance with the > security policy configuration.
I'm not very happy with this hook. This means every single security module needs a list of all sensitive sysctl variables, i.e. we duplicate information in (possible a large number of) different places.
What's the reason you can't just live with DAC for sysctls?
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