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Message-ID: <4F395313.5030704@schaufler-ca.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2012 10:14:43 -0800
From: Casey Schaufler <casey@...aufler-ca.com>
To: Bernd Petrovitsch <bernd@...rovitsch.priv.at>
CC: bharat dhaker <bharat4u.u@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
kernelnewbies@...nelnewbies.org,
"linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org"
<linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: difference between ACLs and SElinux
On 2/13/2012 1:10 AM, Bernd Petrovitsch wrote:
> Hi!
>
> On Mon, 2012-02-13 at 14:30 +0530, bharat dhaker wrote:
> [...]
>> I want to know the differences between ACLs and SElinux.
The differences are many:
ACLs are an extension of the standard Linux Discretionary
Access Control (DAC) mechanism. SELinux is a supplemental
Mandatory Access Control (MAC) scheme.
ACLs are based on the withdrawn POSIX P1003.1e/2c DRAFT
Standard and reflects a rough consensus of the industries
Unix security experts of its day. SELinux started out as
the Flask micro-kernel security architecture.
ACLs are part of the base kernel, while SELinux is a
Linux Security Module.
>> Does anyone know
>> which file-systems supports SElinux?
It's really much more the other way around. SELinux
uses extended attributes (xattrs) and can take advantage
of any filesystem that supports them.
> Google knows;-)
>
> Actually you make a small partition for each filesystem and try it out.
>
> Bernd
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