Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934789AbXHLXPb (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Aug 2007 19:15:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964813AbXHLXPV (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Aug 2007 19:15:21 -0400 Received: from victor.provo.novell.com ([137.65.250.26]:42684 "EHLO victor.provo.novell.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964781AbXHLXPU (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Aug 2007 19:15:20 -0400 Message-ID: <46BF9549.3040808@novell.com> Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2007 18:18:33 -0500 From: Crispin Cowan User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 (X11/20060911) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: casey@schaufler-ca.com CC: Kyle Moffett , linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org, LKML Kernel Subject: Re: [PATCH] Smack: Simplified Mandatory Access Control Kernel References: <255628.7187.qm@web36607.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <255628.7187.qm@web36607.mail.mud.yahoo.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 743 Lines: 20 Casey Schaufler wrote: > I respect the design decisions that SELinux has made regarding > granularity without agreeing with them myself. > It isn't even an exclusive decision: both design points can be "right", but aimed at different use cases. Which is why LSM exists, so users can decide on an appropriate mechanism. Crispin -- Crispin Cowan, Ph.D. http://crispincowan.com/~crispin/ Director of Software Engineering http://novell.com AppArmor Chat: irc.oftc.net/#apparmor - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/