Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 8 Mar 2010 11:32:16 -0800 (PST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: Upstream first policy |
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On Mon, 8 Mar 2010, Alan Cox wrote: > > Its path based in the sense that public_html has a path based meaning by > convention understood by httpd. Copy a jpeg into your public_html and it > will be labelled up for http access under the Fedora shipped rule sets.
Umm. That was my point all along: you can basically "emulate" pathname based decisions by labeling things. But it's not always the most direct approach, and some people clearly do find AppArmor (or Tomoyo, which I think is also largely based on pathnames) to be more "intuitive".
So I don't understand it when people then complain about a mechanism that base their decisions fundamentally on the pathname. It's not like AppArmor got rid of the traditional unix inode-based protections and replaced them (like your silly DEC10 example).
But whatever. The fact is, Ubuntu uses it. We'll merge it.
Linus
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