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Re: [patch 0/2] policy capability support

From: Stephen Smalley <sds_at_tycho.nsa.gov>
Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2008 14:01:37 -0500

On Tue, 2008-01-08 at 12:05 -0500, Paul Moore wrote:
> On Thursday 06 December 2007 4:38:52 pm tmiller@tresys.com wrote:
> > Updated policycap patch set based on recent discussion. The
> > consensus seems to be to only allow policycaps in the base module.
> > This is now enforced by the checkpolicy/checkmodule parser.
>
> I haven't heard much about this patch lately - what is the current
> status? I know Stephen had some minor comments but other than that I
> didn't see any objections ...

It was merged. checkpolicy 2.0.7 and libsepol 2.0.18. But you now need a base module re-built with the capabilities defined. So we need to get a policy patch that does that if/when we are ready to turn on the new networking controls for real.

-- 
Stephen Smalley
National Security Agency


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Date Posted: Jan 15, 2009 | Last Modified: Jan 15, 2009 | Last Reviewed: Jan 15, 2009

 
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