From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 10 14:13:01 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DF0D16A4CE; Mon, 10 May 2004 14:13:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [204.156.12.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9779E43D64; Mon, 10 May 2004 14:13:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from robert@fledge.watson.org) Received: from fledge.watson.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fledge.watson.org (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i4ALCbgg001916; Mon, 10 May 2004 17:12:37 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from robert@fledge.watson.org) Received: from localhost (robert@localhost)i4ALCbnN001913; Mon, 10 May 2004 17:12:37 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from robert@fledge.watson.org) Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 17:12:37 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert Watson X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org To: Tom Rhodes In-Reply-To: <20040510165153.37575e53@localhost> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: FreeBSD-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: [REVIEW REQUEST]: New chapter on MAC (draft) X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 21:13:01 -0000 On Mon, 10 May 2004, Tom Rhodes wrote: > I've written a new chapter for the handbook on implementing the MAC > features in 5.X. It includes configuration, testing, module description > that augments the section we already have, and shows examples of the > policies. > > I'm not worried about whitespace right now, only correctness in the > information presented, markup, and wording. > > Check out the built chapter at: > http://people.freebsd.org/~trhodes/mac/mac.html > > Check out the source at: > http://people.freebsd.org/~trhodes/mac/chapter.sgml > > And no, that chapter number will not be the same. I plan to place > this directly under the Security chapter. > > Thanks for your time and attention. Suggestion: drop the coverage of mac_test, mac_none, and mac_stub. Those exist much more for the benefit of the developer than the user. You can mention they exist but I don't think I'd do much more than that, as they add noise without any real pay-off for most end users. I think you might want to add a section that summarizes what it is MAC policies can do (labeling, etc). You can use that to segway to a discussion of MAC policy trade-offs, including the increased cost of administration, multilabel file systems, etc. BTW, feel free to send this thread (or related threads) to the trustedbsd list. I suspect there might be a greater audience there when it comes to reviewing technical content, but could be mistaken. Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects robert@fledge.watson.org Senior Research Scientist, McAfee Research