systrace + selinux + fedora core 4ish?

[Stephen Smalley]

On Mon, 2005-01-17 at 22:03, Justin Conover wrote:
> http://www.systrace.org/
> 
> http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/systrace/linux.html
> 
> Anybody, seen/use systrace on FC?  What are your thoughts about
> using/adding it to FC?
> 
> >From reading a bit about it, looks to be a very good/useful tool and
> was wondering what others thought about it?

Providing security via system call interception and making security
decisions based on pathnames considered harmful to security; see the
Flask paper available from
http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/papers/flask-abs.cfm.  Sadly, the systrace
site acknowledges the Flask paper, but misses the point entirely...

-- 
Stephen Smalley <sds at epoch.ncsc.mil>
National Security Agency