How The Linux Foundation and Fedora are Addressing Workstation Security (Linux.com)

Posted Feb 18, 2013 13:57 UTC (Mon) by dpquigl (guest, #52852)
In reply to: How The Linux Foundation and Fedora are Addressing Workstation Security (Linux.com) by dpquigl
Parent article: How The Linux Foundation and Fedora are Addressing Workstation Security (Linux.com)

Correction its RSBAC not RBAC.

How The Linux Foundation and Fedora are Addressing Workstation Security (Linux.com)

Posted Feb 18, 2013 14:01 UTC (Mon) by spender (guest, #23067) [Link] (3 responses)

RSBAC is a completely separate project ;)

http://www.rsbac.org

-Brad

How The Linux Foundation and Fedora are Addressing Workstation Security (Linux.com)

Posted Feb 18, 2013 14:03 UTC (Mon) by dpquigl (guest, #52852) [Link] (2 responses)

I stand corrected. I thought it was part of your work with GRSecurity. Its good to see that its separated out so that if someone wanted to use it they could. However If I was going to roll my own kernel with RSBAC in it I'd just use the GRSecurity patches and get all the extra goodies that go along with it.

How The Linux Foundation and Fedora are Addressing Workstation Security (Linux.com)

Posted Feb 18, 2013 15:21 UTC (Mon) by spender (guest, #23067) [Link] (1 responses)

I think you may be confused still ;) Grsecurity has its own RBAC system (I haven't given it a fancy name) which is included in the grsecurity patch. RSBAC is a totally different project, different authors, etc. It's not related to grsecurity in any way.

-Brad

How The Linux Foundation and Fedora are Addressing Workstation Security (Linux.com)

Posted Feb 18, 2013 15:45 UTC (Mon) by dpquigl (guest, #52852) [Link]

You're right I was confused. I was looking through the PaX slides you referenced above and it had GRSecurity and RSBAC right next to each other so I associated them together. So yes the correct comparison would be SELinux against your RBAC mechanism.