Re: [patch 1/2] [RFC] Simple tamper-proof device filesystem.

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Tue Dec 18 2007 - 10:36:36 EST



> Why not use SELinux?
>
> Because SELinux doesn't guarantee filename and its attribute.
> The purpose of this filesystem is to ensure filename and its attribute
> (e.g. /dev/null is guaranteed to be a character device file
> with major=1 and minor=3).

Why not improve selinux to be able to assign label of new file based
on directory label and name?
Pavel
--
(english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek
(cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/