Re: [AppArmor 39/45] AppArmor: Profile loading and manipulation, pathname matching

[david@lang.hm]

On Sat, 9 Jun 2007, Kyle Moffett wrote:

> On Jun 09, 2007, at 12:46:40, david@lang.hm wrote:
> > On Sat, 9 Jun 2007, Kyle Moffett wrote:
> > > Typical "targetted" policies leave all user logins as unrestricted, 
> > > adding security for daemons but not getting in the way of users who would 
> > > otherwise turn SELinux off.  On the other hand, a targeted policy has a 
> > > "trusted" type for user logins which is explicitly allowed access to 
> > > everything.
> >
> > Ok, it sounds as if I did misunderstand SELinux. I thought that by labeling 
> > the individual files you couldn't do the 'only restrict apache' type of 
> > thing.
> >
> > > That said, if you actually want your system to *work* with any 
> > > default-deny policy then you have to describe EVERYTHING anyways.  How 
> > > exactly do you expect AppArmor to "work" if you don't allow users to run 
> > > "/bin/passwd", for example.
> >
> > for AA you don't try to define permissions for every executable, and ones 
> > that you don't define policy are unrestricted.
> >
> > so as I understand this with SELinux you will have lots of labels around 
> > your system (more as you lock down the system more) you need to define 
> > policy so that your unrestricted users must have access to every label, and 
> > every time you create a new label you need to go back to all your policies 
> > to see if the new label needs to be allowed from that policy
>
> Actually, it's easier than that.  There are type attributes which may be 
> assigned to an arbitrary set of types, and each "type" field in an access 
> rule may use either a type or an attribute.  So you don't actually need to 
> modify existing rules when adding new types, you just add the appropriate 
> existing attributes to your new type.  For example, you could set up a 
> "logfile" attribute which allows logrotate to archive old versions and allows 
> audit-admin users to modify/delete them, then whenever you need to add a new 
> logfile you just declare the "my_foo_log_t" type to have the "logfile" 
> attribute.

isn't this just the flip side of the same problem?

every time you define a new attribute you need to go through all the files 
and decide if the new attribute needs to be given to that file.

David Lang

> On the other hand, I seem to recall that typical "targeted" policies don't 
> grant most of the additional access via access rules, they instead add a 
> special case to the fundamental "constraints" in the policy (IE: If the 
> subject type has the "trusted" attribute then skip some of the other 
> type-based checks).
>
> Cheers,
> Kyle Moffett
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