AppArmour open sourced. Possible inclusion in Fedora?

[John Summerfied]

Dave Jones wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 12:14:58PM -0500, Adam Gibson wrote:
>  > http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060113-5975.html
>  > 
>  > From all the reading I have done it seems that configuration would be 
>  > much easier for most system admins.  A utility can learn what access is 
>  > needed by monitoring the app so that you don't have to know all the 
>  > details of what the app touches to get it working for new apps.
> 
> For one thing it needs kernel patches that aren't upstream, which makes
> it unlikely.  Given it duplicates a subset of SELinux functionality,
> it seems somewhat pointless to divide our efforts on two solutions
> to the same problem instead of improving the one that upstream has
> already chosen.

If Red Hatters are monitoring the opposition, they will already know 
about AppArmour.



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