linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Version 3 (2.6.23-rc8) Smack: Simplified Mandatory Access Control Kernel

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Message-ID: <470ABC34.3060002@tmr.com>
Date:	Mon, 08 Oct 2007 19:24:36 -0400
From:	Bill Davidsen <davidsen@....com>
To:	"Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@...lyn.com>
CC:	Casey Schaufler <casey@...aufler-ca.com>,
	Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4@....com>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Stephen Smalley <sds@...ho.nsa.gov>,
	James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Version 3 (2.6.23-rc8) Smack: Simplified Mandatory	Access
 Control Kernel

Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
> (tongue-in-cheek)
>
> No no, everyone knows you don't build simpler things on top of more
> complicated ones, you go the other way around.  So what he was
> suggesting was that selinux be re-written on top of smack.
>   

Having gone from proposing a simpler and easier to use security system 
as an alternative to SELinux, you now propose to change the one working 
security system we have. And yes, it's hard to use, but it works. Let's 
keep this a patch, people who want adventure can have one, and people 
who have gotten Linux accepted "if SELinux is enabled" will avoid one.

-- 
bill davidsen <davidsen@....com>
  CTO TMR Associates, Inc
  Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979

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