Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753729AbXJHXUi (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Oct 2007 19:20:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752105AbXJHXUa (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Oct 2007 19:20:30 -0400 Received: from mail.tmr.com ([64.65.253.246]:42369 "EHLO gaimboi.tmr.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751694AbXJHXU3 (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Oct 2007 19:20:29 -0400 Message-ID: <470ABC34.3060002@tmr.com> Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2007 19:24:36 -0400 From: Bill Davidsen Organization: TMR Associates Inc, Schenectady NY User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.8) Gecko/20061105 SeaMonkey/1.0.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Serge E. Hallyn" CC: Casey Schaufler , Kyle Moffett , "Eric W. Biederman" , Linus Torvalds , Stephen Smalley , James Morris , Andrew Morton , linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Version 3 (2.6.23-rc8) Smack: Simplified Mandatory Access Control Kernel References: <63003.78064.qm@web36613.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <20071008161835.GB7106@vino.hallyn.com> In-Reply-To: <20071008161835.GB7106@vino.hallyn.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 975 Lines: 24 Serge E. Hallyn wrote: > (tongue-in-cheek) > > No no, everyone knows you don't build simpler things on top of more > complicated ones, you go the other way around. So what he was > suggesting was that selinux be re-written on top of smack. > Having gone from proposing a simpler and easier to use security system as an alternative to SELinux, you now propose to change the one working security system we have. And yes, it's hard to use, but it works. Let's keep this a patch, people who want adventure can have one, and people who have gotten Linux accepted "if SELinux is enabled" will avoid one. -- bill davidsen CTO TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979 - 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/