Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 10:55:25 -0800
From: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
To: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com>, Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>,
       David Lang <dlang@digitalinsight.com>,
       "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
       Sam Vilain <sam@vilain.net>, Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>,
       Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>, Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>,
       Linux Kernel ML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Virtualization steps
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* Stephen Smalley (sds@tycho.nsa.gov) wrote:
> FWIW, SELinux now has a notion of a type hierarchy in its policy, so the
> root admin can carve out a portion of the policy space and allow less
> privileged admins to then define sub-types that are strictly constrained
> by what was allowed to the parent type by the root admin.  This is
> handled in userspace, with the policy mediation performed by a userspace
> agent (daemon, policy management server), which then becomes the focal
> point for all policy loading.

*nod* this is exactly what I was thinking in terms of container
specifying policy.  Goes through the system/root container and gets
validated before loaded.

thanks,
-chris
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