linux-kernel - Re: AppArmor Security Goal

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Message-ID: <20071110234706.GE24195@gallifrey>
Date:	Sat, 10 Nov 2007 23:47:06 +0000
From:	"Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <linux@...blig.org>
To:	david@...g.hm
Cc:	Crispin Cowan <crispin@...spincowan.com>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	LSM ML <linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org>,
	apparmor-dev <apparmor-dev@...ge.novell.com>
Subject: Re: AppArmor Security Goal

* david@...g.hm (david@...g.hm) wrote:
 That I wrote:
> >If the adminisrator set something up with (2) as the starting point it
> >would seem reasonable for the user to be able to add the ability to edit
> >documents in extra directories for their style of organising documents
> >they work on; but they would be restricted in what they could add
> >so that they couldn't add the ability to write to their settings
> >files.
> 
> but how can the system know if the directory the user wants to add is 
> reasonable or not? what if the user says they want to store their 
> documents in /etc?

I was assuming that in a system where the user can add stuff to
the profile the administrator would be able to either grant or exclude
paths that the user was able to add.

Dave
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