Re: TOMOYO in linux-next

[Bodo Eggert]

On Fri, 27 Mar 2009, Pavel Machek wrote:
> On Fri 2009-03-27 10:28:07, Bodo Eggert wrote:
> > Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx> wrote:

> > > I don't think merging that is good idea. Security should be doable
> > > without making shell-like glob matching...
> > 
> > How do you suppose a security system should handle mozilla modifying
> > ~/.bashrc differently from downloading something to ~/pr0n.jpg?
> 
> How does shell-like glob matching help there? You'd need to parse
> /etc/passwd to find all ~ directories...

That is, if you'd use HOME=`dd if=/dev/urandom ...`.

If you have your users in /home/user, you can tell /home/*/.*
is bad, /home/*/[^.]* is OK.

How would you exclude mozilla from writing to .* then? ".a" is bad,
".b" is bad ...? or "A" is OK, "a" is OK, "zzzzzzzzzzzzz" is OK"?
Either way, you'd need several universes to store the security profile.
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