linux-kernel - Re: AppArmor Security Goal

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Date:	Sat, 10 Nov 2007 20:50:34 -0800 (PST)
From:	david@...g.hm
To:	John Johansen <jjohansen@...e.de>
cc:	"Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <linux@...blig.org>,
	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

On Sat, 10 Nov 2007, John Johansen wrote:

> On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 03:52:31PM -0800, david@...g.hm wrote:
>> On Sat, 10 Nov 2007, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote:
>
>>> Allowing a user to tweak (under constraints) their settings might allow
>>> them to do something like create two mozilla profiles which are isolated
>>> from each other, so that the profile they use for general web surfing
>>> is isolated from the one they use for online banking.
>>
>> the model of being able to add restrictions would still handle this. make
>> two shell scripts (one to start each browser profile) and set the AA policy
>> for these scripts to only have access to the appropriate directories.
>>
> yes you could do this, though I tend to want it just so I can control
> which of my files firefox should be able to touch, without messing
> up system policy.

right, I was showing how you could easily create two different firefox 
browsers being able to access different things, and how it could be done 
with user-based policies that tighten restrictions only (which are being 
considered)

David Lang
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