Re: Announce: RSBAC 1.4.0 released

["Justin P. Mattock" <justinmattock@gmail.com>]

Amon Ott wrote:
> Rule Set Based Access Control (RSBAC) 1.4.0 has been released for both
> Linux kernels 2.4.37 and 2.6.27.10
> You can download the new version from http://www.rsbac.org
>
> RSBAC is one of the leading access control systems for the Linux
> kernel with a good selection of access control models, see
> http://www.rsbac.org/why for more details.
>
> Important changes since 1.3 series:
>
>   *  VUM (Virtual User Management) support (http://rsbac.org/redir.php?t=vum)
>   * One time password support for user management 
> (http://rsbac.org/redir.php?t=otp)
>   * Code for kernels 2.4 and 2.6 has been separated. 2.4 kernels might
> be phased out at a later date.
>   * PAM module does not send a message "User not authenticated" anymore
> if authentication failed. (To match other PAM modules behavior)
>   * Made PAM password prompt standard and definable to RSBAC's custom
> prompt if the user wants it only.
>   * rsbac_useradd -K to copy a user with password.
>   * rsbac_mount now uses kernel's vfs_mount
>
>
> About RSBAC 1.4:
> ---
>
> RSBAC 1.4 mainly introduces the new Virtual User Management feature ( 
> (http://rsbac.org/redir.php?t=vum),
> which allows to isolate complete sets of users in so-called "virtual sets". 
> Every user in every set can have individual passwords and access rights.
>
> As an example, you can start your mail server in a different set, and
> the users getting the email will not be part of the system users.
>
> Likewise, your jails can be started in a different set, so that the
> users in that jail will never be the same ones as the real system users.
>
> You can specify the user set with the usual tools by specifying the
> full user path, e.g.:
>
> 0/0 defines user id 0 (root) in virtual set 0 (eg system user root)
> 0/1000 defines user id 1000 in virtual set 0 (eg a system user)
> 1/secoff defines user secoff in virtual set 1 (e.g. with uid 400)
> 2/1000 defines user id 1000 in virtual set 2 (for example, mail users
> could be in set 2)
>
> Amon.
>   
alright a new security mechanism!!
(still need to learn UBAC though);
Anyways I'll have to give this a shot.

regards;

Justin P. Mattoxk