Research
Skip Research Menus
Research MenuSecurity Enhanced Linux What's New Frequently Asked Questions Background Documents License Download Participating Mail List Archives Remaining Work Contributors Related Work Press Releases Information Assurance Research NIARL In-house Research Areas Mathematical Sciences Program Sabbaticals Computer & Information Sciences Research Technology Transfer Advanced Computing Advanced Mathematics Communications & Networking Information Processing Microelectronics Other Technologies Technology Fact Sheets Publications Related Links |
SELinux Mailing ListRe: Desktop apps interoperability
From: Tom <tom_at_lemuria.org>
Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2005 09:54:27 +0200
Just like hunger and war, yes. The fact remains that they exist, and you and I have to work with (and/or around) them. Now, you _can_ do binary patching or even runtime binary patching, you can overload system calls, you can do all sorts of dirty tricks to change the behaviour of an "unchangeable" app. In most cases that's non-trivial and it'll certainly mean you lose customer support. SELinux is an excellent way to deal with these abominations and beat a little sense into them. Were you on the list 2 years ago or so, when I wrote policies for commercial Linux games? The audit log is an interesting read, you wouldn't _believe_ what they try to access for no obvious reason. -- PGP/GPG key: http://web.lemuria.org/pubkey.html pub 1024D/2D7A04F5 2002-05-16 Tom Vogt <tom@lemuria.org> Key fingerprint = C731 64D1 4BCF 4C20 48A4 29B2 BF01 9FA1 2D7A 04F5 -- This message was distributed to subscribers of the selinux mailing list. If you no longer wish to subscribe, send mail to majordomo@tycho.nsa.gov with the words "unsubscribe selinux" without quotes as the message.Received on Fri 1 Apr 2005 - 02:56:09 EST |
|
Date Posted: Jan 15, 2009 | Last Modified: Jan 15, 2009 | Last Reviewed: Jan 15, 2009 |