Re: Upstream first policy

[Linus Torvalds]

On Mon, 8 Mar 2010, Alan Cox wrote:
>
> Its path based in the sense that public_html has a path based meaning by
> convention understood by httpd. Copy a jpeg into your public_html and it
> will be labelled up for http access under the Fedora shipped rule sets.

Umm. That was my point all along: you can basically "emulate" pathname 
based decisions by labeling things. But it's not always the most direct 
approach, and some people clearly do find AppArmor (or Tomoyo, which I 
think is also largely based on pathnames) to be more "intuitive".

So I don't understand it when people then complain about a mechanism that 
base their decisions fundamentally on the pathname. It's not like AppArmor 
got rid of the traditional unix inode-based protections and replaced them 
(like your silly DEC10 example).

But whatever. The fact is, Ubuntu uses it. We'll merge it.

				Linus
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