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RE: Limiting IPC with SELinux?: msg#00207

Subject: RE: Limiting IPC with SELinux?
On Mon, 25 Apr 2005, Stephen Smalley wrote:

> True, but I don't think this will help much in this particular case, as
> the original poster wants to control information flow via loopback and
> you aren't likely to be using IPSEC on such traffic.

You could use null encryption and null authentication.

Another possibility is to implement SO_PEERSEC for loopback TCP, although 
I think it requires more LSM hooks.

> In the absence of a sk_buff security field and associated hooks for
> lifecycle management, I think that we'd have to go with something like
> the iptables MARK module, ala LIDS.

I think this is at the wrong layer; how would you query the socket for 
peer security information?


- James
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James Morris
<jmorris@xxxxxxxxxx>





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