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Re: In FC8 I would like to start playing with trusted X.

From: Daniel J Walsh <dwalsh_at_redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 12:21:41 -0400


James Antill wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-05-15 at 14:44 -0400, Daniel J Walsh wrote:
>
>> Supposedly The SELinux XExtensions are in FC7 and beyond so time to
>> start using them.
>>
>> But lets start simple ...
>>
>> Some of you are looking at using Trusted X for MLS, but I want to look
>> at this from a targeted policy point of view. What are the security
>> goals of a normal Fedora user.
>>
>> Lets establish two tangible goals.
>>
>> 1. Only the application with focus can get keyboard input. So if I am
>> on a web page that is asking me for a password (On Line Banking) Only
>> Firefox can read the input. Not Thunderbird.
>> Theoretically I could run this with all apps mostly unconfined.
>> firefox_t can capture input on firefox_t. While unconfined_t can not.
>>
>
> This might go well, I'm not sure, and if it does would be a big plus :)
>
>
>> 2. No apps except gimp can do a screen capture. Again I want all apps
>> mostly unconfined
>> My goal is to get a policy that prevents any app from screen capture
>> including
>> unconfined_t. Bug gimp_t in the unconfined domain can.
>>
>
> You will need to include gnome-screenshot as well as gimp here though,
> or a lot of people will complain (PrintScreen). With those two, this
> might be able to work (None of the gnome-screensaver actions try to take
> shots now, IIRC).
>
>

Ok now I was hoping the NSA guys would hop in and say. Hey here is how you would do it. :^)
Because I have no idea. Any help would be appreciated.

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