[apparmor] Improving policy abstractions

Seth Arnold seth.arnold at gmail.com
Tue Aug 10 11:01:48 BST 2010


Now that I don't know the abstractions as well as I used to (thanks Jamie! :) I find myself wondering just what permissions are being granted.

Specifically, I have wanted something like:

#include (authentication, read)

To make sure I'm not accidentally granting write access to my auth databases.

Or

#include (authentication, files)

So I don't wind up supporting a dozen different auth tools I don't have.

Of course, I'm scared of parameterized policy, it runs the very real risk of growing into a hydra, perhaps your idea of further constraining it into types makes sense. (And types would be neat for networking and probably IPC too.)



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