From: cpebenito@tresys.com (Christopher J. PeBenito)
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 10:44:32 -0400
Subject: [refpolicy] (u|r)bacsep: initial testing
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On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 12:12 -0400, Christopher J. PeBenito wrote:
> For those that are interested, the SELinux user-based separation policy
> is ready for some initial testing.  It can be checked out from the
> rbacsep branch of the refpolicy SVN repo.  Not all of the type aliases
> are in place for compatibility yet, so switching from an existing policy
> should be done in permissive.
> 
> A question that comes up is how exactly to to determine which types
> should be constrained by ubac.  The obvious answer would seem to be that
> if the user isn't system_u, then there should be ubac constraints on the
> access check.  But the problem is that creating new files gets your
> selinux user on files.  So if you look in /etc, you're likely to see non
> system_u files, such as ld.so.cache.  The problem is that we don't want
> ubac constraints on these files.  In addition, since there is no
> run_init on redhat (and possibly other distros) machines, restarted
> services would get non system_u users, which would also cause problems.
> 
> My current implementation is actually more of an allow by default setup,
> where types are explicitly marked as being ubac constrained.  Obviously
> deny by default would be preferred, but that would require all exempted
> types to be marked instead.  The problem is the number of exempted types
> far outnumbers the constrained types.  I'm open to suggestions on
> tweaking this design, especially if it gets us a deny by default without
> the pain of marking most types in the policy as exempted.

ping

This really needs to be tested by people whose projects depend on proper
role separations.

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Chris PeBenito
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