On Thu, 21 May 2020 11:43:18 -0000 (UTC) mlel...@serpens.de (Michael van Elst) wrote:
> net...@precedence.co.uk (Stephen Borrill) writes: > > >RBAC using kauth was demonstrated in a talk by Alistair Crooks at > >EuroBSDCon 2009. Unfortunately, any slides/recordings seem to have > >been expunged from the UKUUG website > > >https://www.ukuug.org/events/eurobsdcon2009/history/ > > https://web.archive.org/web/20091229053351/http://www.ukuug.org/events/eurobsdcon2009/papers/role-based-access-control.pdf > Yes I've seen this paper, there are also other papers that talk about a proof-of-concept implementation of "secure sandboxes" with kauth: https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/db35/dffa143308ec31eb92b1a37bcdfc56f0d37b.pdf https://2008.asiabsdcon.org/papers/P3A-paper.pdf The way I understand it - NetBSD has the kernel framework for implementing RBAC, but there is still work that needs to be done for implementing specific security models, which could be used by system administrators.
