From: Bodo Eggert <7eggert@gmx.de>
To: "Rogelio M. Serrano Jr." <rogelio@smsglobal.net>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
LSM ML <linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org>,
apparmor-dev <apparmor-dev@forge.novell.com>
Subject: Re: AppArmor Security Goal
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 19:43:44 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1IreG9-00013R-0K@be1.7eggert.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9of7j-7ej-7@gated-at.bofh.it>
Rogelio M. Serrano Jr. <rogelio@smsglobal.net> wrote:
> Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote:
>> Allowing a user to tweak (under constraints) their settings might allow
>> them to do something like create two mozilla profiles which are isolated
>> from each other, so that the profile they use for general web surfing
>> is isolated from the one they use for online banking.
>>
>>
> Doesnt this allow the user to shoot their own foot? The exact thing
> mandatory access control are supposed to prevent?
cat `which mozilla` > ~/bin/mymozilla; chmod +x ~/bin/mozilla; mymozilla
Unless you lock down the system to a state where it's barely usable, MAC
isn't going to protect you from shooting your own feet. But having more
restricted roles and a safe way of activating them (as in "damn obvious
if or if not this role is active"), you can have e.g. one mozilla for
banking and one for pr0n.
next parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-12 18:44 UTC|newest]
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2007-11-12 18:43 ` Bodo Eggert [this message]
2007-11-11 8:16 Rob Meijer
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2007-11-08 21:33 Crispin Cowan
2007-11-10 21:04 ` Andi Kleen
2007-11-10 21:24 ` Crispin Cowan
2007-11-11 3:23 ` John Johansen
2007-11-10 21:28 ` david
2007-11-11 3:36 ` John Johansen
2007-11-10 22:04 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2007-11-10 22:11 ` Crispin Cowan
2007-11-10 22:24 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2007-11-10 22:41 ` Crispin Cowan
2007-11-10 22:57 ` Alan Cox
2007-11-10 23:14 ` Crispin Cowan
2007-11-10 23:54 ` Alan Cox
2007-11-10 23:25 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2007-11-10 23:52 ` david
2007-11-10 23:47 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2007-11-10 23:56 ` Alan Cox
2007-11-11 1:27 ` david
2007-11-11 3:59 ` John Johansen
2007-11-12 23:58 ` Crispin Cowan
2007-11-11 4:17 ` John Johansen
2007-11-11 4:50 ` david
2007-11-13 0:13 ` Crispin Cowan
2007-11-11 7:02 ` Rogelio M. Serrano Jr.
2007-11-12 23:50 ` Crispin Cowan
2007-11-13 1:20 ` John Johansen
2007-11-11 2:17 ` Casey Schaufler
2007-11-11 3:55 ` John Johansen
2007-11-13 0:10 ` Joshua Brindle
2007-11-13 4:58 ` Casey Schaufler
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