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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Version 3 (2.6.23-rc8) Smack: Simplified Mandatory Access Control Kernel
Kyle Moffett wrote:
> On Oct 04, 2007, at 21:44:02, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>> What we want from the LSM is the ability to say -EPERM when we can
>> clearly articulate that we want to disallow something.
>
> This sort of depends on perspective; typically with security
> infrastructure you actually want "... the ability to return success when
> we can clearly articulate that we want to *ALLOW* something". File
> permissions work this way; we don't have a list of forbidden users
> attached to each file, we have an owner, a group, and a mode
> representing positive permissions. With that said in certain high-risk
> environments you need something even stronger that cannot be changed by
> the "owner" of the file, if we don't entirely trust them,
>
Other than ACLs, of course, which do allow blacklisting individual users.

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