Re: [RFC] Virtualization steps

From: Chris Wright
Date: Thu Mar 30 2006 - 13:51:37 EST


* Stephen Smalley (sds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> FWIW, SELinux now has a notion of a type hierarchy in its policy, so the
> root admin can carve out a portion of the policy space and allow less
> privileged admins to then define sub-types that are strictly constrained
> by what was allowed to the parent type by the root admin. This is
> handled in userspace, with the policy mediation performed by a userspace
> agent (daemon, policy management server), which then becomes the focal
> point for all policy loading.

*nod* this is exactly what I was thinking in terms of container
specifying policy. Goes through the system/root container and gets
validated before loaded.

thanks,
-chris
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