Is there a SELinux tutorial for ISVs ?

Karl MacMillan kmacmillan at tresys.com
Thu Apr 28 20:38:04 UTC 2005


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-selinux at tycho.nsa.gov [mailto:owner-selinux at tycho.nsa.gov] On
> Behalf Of Stephen Smalley
> Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2005 1:52 PM
> To: Lorenzo Hernández García-Hierro
> Cc: Daniel J Walsh; Davide Bolcioni; fedora-selinux-list at redhat.com; SELinux
> Subject: Re: Is there a SELinux tutorial for ISVs ?
> 
> On Thu, 2005-04-28 at 19:32 +0200, Lorenzo Hernández García-Hierro
> wrote:
> > I've been thinking on it when working on the SELinux deployment within
> > Ubuntu Linux, and binary policies are something pretty handy for binary
> > packages-based distributions, among the general benefit they provide.
> >
> > I might be able to work on something, but I would like to know first how
> > many people is interested in this and how many of them would be able to
> > contribute to it in the long term.
> 
> Tresys Technology already has a working implementation of binary policy
> modules, including a module abstraction with a dependency model, a
> compiler for generating such modules, and a linker for linking them
> together with a "base module".  Planned for upstreaming after FC4.  See
> their prior posts to the selinux list or their web site for info.
> 

This and the reference policy work I just mentioned in another email. As we work
on upstreaming the binary modules we are going to need feedback / testing - if
you are interested in this area I would greatly appreciate any help you can
give.

Thanks,

Karl

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Karl MacMillan
Tresys Technology
http://www.tresys.com
(410) 290-1411 ext 134

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