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Re: [Fwd: Re: trusted vs untrusted packages]

From: Stephen Smalley <sds_at_epoch.ncsc.mil>
Date: 14 Oct 2003 16:13:40 -0400


On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 16:07, Chris PeBenito wrote:
> > I would think that some sort of trusted-path execution setup would be
> > better. I don't know much about TPE, but this sounds like one situation
> > that it would be good for. Then you could set it to not do domain
> > transitions on untrusted stuff, and also require that sysadm_t only
> > execute trusted stuff. The status as trusted or untrusted could be
> > handled by another xattr. Then it also would not get overridden by a
> > relabel. But I'm getting ahead of myself, since there is no TPE in
> > SELinux. </brainstorm>
> >
> > Might there one day be TPE in SELinux, or is that beyond its scope?

Use type enforcement instead.

-- 
Stephen Smalley <sds@epoch.ncsc.mil>
National Security Agency


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