Dazuko and the LSM API [LWN.net]

Dazuko and the LSM API

Posted Oct 26, 2006 11:42 UTC (Thu) by hummassa (subscriber, #307)
Parent article: Dazuko and the LSM API

> Dazuko is one of a handful of security solutions that run on Linux, but
> are not maintained in the kernel tree and, in fact, have a relatively
> hostile attitude towards the suggested ways of moving their code into >
> the tree.
Would anyone care to clarify (with pointers, if possible) the above?
Especially IRT the "hostile attitude towards the suggested ways of moving
their code into the tree", and which are those suggested ways?

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Dazuko and the LSM API

Posted Oct 26, 2006 13:02 UTC (Thu) by jake (editor, #205) [Link]

> Would anyone care to clarify (with pointers, if possible) the above?
> Especially IRT the "hostile attitude towards the suggested ways of moving
> their code into the tree", and which are those suggested ways?

I guess I might be in the best position to do that ...

http://dazuko.org/tgen.shtml#LSM
http://grsecurity.net/lsm.php
http://www.rsbac.org/documentation/why_rsbac_does_not_use...

LSM (or SELinux when it was believed that LSM might be removed) are the suggested API for security modules ...

jake