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Re: Integrating securelevel and kauth(9)

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Cc: <tech-security@...>, <tech-kern@...>
Date: Saturday, March 25, 2006 - 12:42 pm

hi,


the fact that "access raw memory" and "change firewall rule" are
controlled by securelevel is not a good reason to put them into
a single scope, IMO.
it's better to write listeners to check "securelevel" variable
for appropriate scopes, rather than having a single scope gathering
these random operations.
ie. i think securelevel should be turned into listener(s), not a scope.


btw, it seems that you are proposing two different things in this mail.
	- adapt securelevel to kauth world
	- make securelevel a bitmap

i'm not sure if the latter is a good idea.
why bother to complicate securelevel, while you can just have
another listener to implement finer-grained access control?

YAMAMOTO Takashi
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Integrating securelevel and kauth(9), Elad Efrat, (Fri Mar 24, 1:56 pm)
Re: Integrating securelevel and kauth(9), YAMAMOTO Takashi, (Sat Mar 25, 12:42 pm)
Re: Integrating securelevel and kauth(9), Elad Efrat, (Sat Mar 25, 2:29 pm)
Re: Integrating securelevel and kauth(9), YAMAMOTO Takashi, (Sat Mar 25, 3:04 pm)
Re: Integrating securelevel and kauth(9), Elad Efrat, (Sat Mar 25, 3:10 pm)
Re: Integrating securelevel and kauth(9), YAMAMOTO Takashi, (Sat Mar 25, 3:40 pm)
Re: Integrating securelevel and kauth(9), Elad Efrat, (Sat Mar 25, 3:50 pm)
Re: Integrating securelevel and kauth(9), YAMAMOTO Takashi, (Sat Mar 25, 4:54 pm)
Re: Integrating securelevel and kauth(9), Elad Efrat, (Sat Mar 25, 5:08 pm)
Re: Integrating securelevel and kauth(9), YAMAMOTO Takashi, (Sun Mar 26, 6:45 am)
Re: Integrating securelevel and kauth(9), Elad Efrat, (Sun Mar 26, 1:57 pm)
Re: Integrating securelevel and kauth(9), Robert Watson, (Tue Mar 28, 7:34 am)
Re: Integrating securelevel and kauth(9), David Laight, (Tue Mar 28, 1:29 pm)
Re: Integrating securelevel and kauth(9), Robert Watson, (Tue Mar 28, 1:36 pm)
Re: Integrating securelevel and kauth(9), Daniel Carosone, (Tue Mar 28, 4:36 pm)
Re: Integrating securelevel and kauth(9), YAMAMOTO Takashi, (Sun Mar 26, 4:56 pm)
Re: Integrating securelevel and kauth(9), Elad Efrat, (Sun Mar 26, 5:58 pm)
Re: Integrating securelevel and kauth(9), YAMAMOTO Takashi, (Mon Mar 27, 6:57 am)
Re: Integrating securelevel and kauth(9), Elad Efrat, (Mon Mar 27, 6:47 pm)
Re: Integrating securelevel and kauth(9), Matt Thomas, (Mon Mar 27, 9:37 pm)
Re: Integrating securelevel and kauth(9), Thomas E. Spanjaard, (Mon Mar 27, 9:18 pm)
Re: Integrating securelevel and kauth(9), Martin Husemann, (Mon Mar 27, 7:20 am)
Re: Integrating securelevel and kauth(9), Bill Studenmund, (Fri Mar 24, 6:44 pm)
Re: Integrating securelevel and kauth(9), Elad Efrat, (Fri Mar 24, 6:56 pm)
Re: Integrating securelevel and kauth(9), Bill Studenmund, (Sat Mar 25, 2:05 pm)
Re: Integrating securelevel and kauth(9), David Laight, (Fri Mar 24, 3:01 pm)
Re: Integrating securelevel and kauth(9), Elad Efrat, (Fri Mar 24, 5:51 pm)
Re: Integrating securelevel and kauth(9), Bill Studenmund, (Fri Mar 24, 6:29 pm)
Re: Integrating securelevel and kauth(9), Garrett D'Amore, (Fri Mar 24, 2:17 pm)
Re: Integrating securelevel and kauth(9), Elad Efrat, (Fri Mar 24, 5:24 pm)
Re: Integrating securelevel and kauth(9), Matthew Mondor, (Sat Mar 25, 4:59 pm)
Re: Integrating securelevel and kauth(9), Elad Efrat, (Sat Mar 25, 5:28 pm)
Re: Integrating securelevel and kauth(9), Matthew Mondor, (Sat Mar 25, 6:53 pm)
Re: Integrating securelevel and kauth(9), Elad Efrat, (Sat Mar 25, 7:22 pm)
Re: Integrating securelevel and kauth(9), Garrett D'Amore, (Sat Mar 25, 9:07 pm)
Re: Integrating securelevel and kauth(9), Garrett D'Amore, (Fri Mar 24, 5:55 pm)
Re: Integrating securelevel and kauth(9), Elad Efrat, (Fri Mar 24, 8:29 pm)
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