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Why we should care

Why we should care

Posted Aug 18, 2005 11:49 UTC (Thu) by druiloor (guest, #26069)
In reply to: Why we should care by flewellyn
Parent article: An overview of multilevel security

As i see it, most of this MAC stuff could (theoretically) be done with a combination of: Unix groups, POSIX filesystem ACLs, and extended artibutes (administated with like CAP_LINUX_IMMUTABLE privs.)

However that might be major pain, and not al all easy to get right ...

What i found to be a good read, discussing security inc MAC, MLS, et al:
http://www.google.com/search?q=gasserbook


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