Re: [RFC] Virtualization steps

[Chris Wright]

* Serge E. Hallyn (serue@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> Quoting Chris Wright (chrisw@xxxxxxxxxxxx):
> > This is all fine.  The question is whether this is a policy management
> > issue or a kernel infrastructure issue.  So far, it's not clear that this
> > really necessitates kernel infrastructure changes to support container
> > aware policies to be loaded by physical host admin/owner or the virtual
> > host admin.  The place where it breaks down is if each virtual host
> > wants not only to control its own policy, but also its security model.
> 
> What do you define as 'policy', and how is it different from the
> security model?

Model, as in TE, RBAC, or something trivially simple ala Openwall type
protection.  Policy, as in rules to drive the model.

> Second, we might want container admins to insert LSMs.

I think we can agree that this way lies madness.

thanks,
-chris
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