Re: [RESEND][RFC][PATCH 2/7] implementation of LSM hooks

From: Lars Marowsky-Bree
Date: Mon Apr 24 2006 - 04:13:34 EST


On 2006-04-21T10:24:37, Stephen Smalley <sds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > (With AppArmor, of course, you never lose labels at all, because there
> > aren't any.)
> But you do lose preservation of security properties, e.g. renaming a
> file suddenly moves it under different protection. Same end result.

This is not correct, as far as I understand. As the app can only rename
in it has access to both the old and the new path.


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