Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 16:40:20 -0600 (CST) From: "H. S." <security@revolutionsp.com> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A few thoughts.. Message-ID: <62770.81.84.174.37.1112136020.squirrel@mail.revolutionsp.com> In-Reply-To: <20050329212810.GB3199@britannica.bec.de> References: <61910.81.84.174.37.1112123946.squirrel@mail.revolutionsp.com> <20050329213528.59dab2e2.flynn@energyhq.es.eu.org> <62208.81.84.174.37.1112130745.squirrel@mail.revolutionsp.com> <20050329212810.GB3199@britannica.bec.de>
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> On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 03:12:25PM -0600, H. S. wrote: >> This could be compared to what was done in FreeBSD lately, I remember in >> 4.7 (and probably later, up to 4.10 I think) a user could see the full >> connection lists (even connections from other users), only later the >> kern.ps_showallprocs/security.bsd.see_other_uids took effect for these >> matters too. > > It needs time to implement and actually process such checks. I understand, and can only congratulate the freebsd developers for the nice programming you've all gotten us used to. I can't code C enough to be able to do anything really complex, however I do have a noction of how much effort is put into stuff like this. > >> > Have a look at mac(3), mac(4) and mac.conf(5), it's not systrace but >> you >> > can achieve >> > similar results. >> >> Systrace is much more complex than mac. > > That's a good one! It's actually quite the reverse, MAC is much more > powerful than systrace, simply because it operates on a different > level. You can do all this kind of checks with a MAC policy, if > something does not have the necessary hooks, complain to Robert Watson :) > > Joerg Hmm, I'll furthen my MAC knowledge then :-) > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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