netdev - Re: RFC: Network privilege separation.

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Message-ID: <20090108121027.GA3226@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date:	Thu, 8 Jan 2009 23:10:27 +1100
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk
Cc:	michael@...top.org, andi@...stfloor.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RFC: Network privilege separation.

Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> 
> That to me says controlling network access is only useful as part of a
> more fine grained and general purpose interface. We already have that
> interface in the form of things like SELinux. We already have systems
> actively using it to control stuff like which ports are accessed by some
> services.

Exactly.  If people want this they should go the SELinux/LSM route.

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