Usercreation-policy

[Nils Philippsen]

On Thu, 2003-09-25 at 16:31, Stephen Smalley wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-09-25 at 02:42, Nils Philippsen wrote:
> > Anyway, you need to make daemons SELinux aware to utilize it so
> > you'd have to allow only e.g. "accepting network connections", "writing
> > files" or something similar to the processes which needed to do it.
> 
> You don't have to make the daemon aware of SELinux in order to confine
> it with SELinux.  In some cases, you may choose to make the daemon
> SELinux-aware in order to better leverage the security mechanisms and
> provide finer-grained control, but that isn't a fundamental
> requirement.  SELinux can transparently transition the daemon into its
> own security domain based on the calling domain and the entrypoint
> executable without any awareness by the daemon itself.

Even better.

Nils
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