Re: [kernel-hardening] [PATCH net-next v7 00/10] Landlock LSM: Toward unprivileged sandboxing

From: James Morris
Date: Sun Aug 27 2017 - 23:39:50 EST


On Mon, 21 Aug 2017, MickaÃl SalaÃn wrote:

> ## Why a new LSM? Are SELinux, AppArmor, Smack and Tomoyo not good enough?
>
> The current access control LSMs are fine for their purpose which is to give the
> *root* the ability to enforce a security policy for the *system*. What is
> missing is a way to enforce a security policy for any application by its
> developer and *unprivileged user* as seccomp can do for raw syscall filtering.
>

You could mention here that the first case is Mandatory Access Control,
in general terms.



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