On 2007-06-21T16:59:54, Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> wrote:

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> Or can access the data under a different path to which their profile
> does give them access, whether in its final destination or in some
> temporary file processed along the way.

Well, yes. That is intentional.

Your point is?

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> The emphasis on never modifying applications for security in AA likew=
ise
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> has an adverse impact here, as you will ultimately have to deal with
> application mediation of access to their own objects and operations n=
ot
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> directly visible to the kernel (as we have already done in SELinux fo=
r
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> D-BUS and others and are doing for X).  Otherwise, your "protection" =
of
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> desktop applications is easily subverted.

That is an interesting argument, but not what we're discussing here.
We're arguing filesystem access mediation.

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> Um, no.  It might not be able to directly open files via that path, b=
ut
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> showing that it can never read or write your mail is a rather differe=
nt
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> matter.

Yes. Your use case is different than mine.



Regards,
    Lars

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