LKML: Linux Security Protection System

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Nézegetem az LKML leveleket, és észreveszek egy levelet aminek a subjectje "Linux Security Protection System". Na nézzük csak mi ez. Bosko Radivojevic küldte a levelet, amelyben bejelenti az első publikus stabil verzióját a LinSec-nek. A LinSec a "Mandatory Access Control (MAC)" mechanizmust valósítja meg a Linux rendszerekben. A LinSec két részből áll, egy kernel patchből, és "user space" eszközökből. Az első publikus verzió a 2.4.18-as kernelhez készült.

Részletes dokumentáció, letöltés, levelező lista a project honalpján:

http://www.linsec.org

Bosko levele:From: Bosko Radivojevic

To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org

Subject: Linux Security Protection System

Date: 16 Oct 2002 16:08:54 +0200

LinSec team is proud to announce first stable release of LinSec.

LinSec, as the name says, is Linux Security Protection System. The main aim of LinSec is to introduce Mandatory Access Control (MAC) mechanism into Linux (as opposed to existing Discretionary Access Control mechanism).

LinSec model is based on:

* Capabilities

* Filesystem Access Domains

* IP Labeling Lists

* Socket Access Control

As for Capabilities, LinSec heavily extends the Linux native capability model to allow fine grained delegation of individual capabilities to both users and programs on the system. No more allmighty root!

Filesystem Access Domain subsystem allows restriction of accessible filesystem parts for both individual users and programs. Now you can restrict user activities to only its home, mailbox etc. Filesystem Access Domains works on device, dir and individual file granularity.

IP Labeling lists enable restriction on allowed network connections on per program basis. From now on, you may configure your policy so that no one except your favorite MTA can connect to remote port 25

Socket Access Control model enables fine grained socket access control by associating, with each socket, a set of capabilities required for a local process to connect to the socket.

LinSec consists of two parts: kernel patch (currently for 2.4.18) and userspace tools.

Detailed documentation, download & mailing list information -

http://www.linsec.org