Andy Suchoski wrote:
Hello all,

My background is with legacy MLS systems and I can understand when the label attribute of a process contains a low label and a high label (s0-s15:c0.c255), the low label corresponds to the level at which a process operates and the high label corresponds to the clearance of the process. I believe that is right. But what does the low label and high label mean in the security context of an object such as a file or a directory?

Most objects, such as files, are restricted such that their low label and high label are equivalent, or "single-level". However, directories (and some other objects in the system, I don't remember which right now) are permitted to be "multi-level", since a directory could hold files with different levels.

Mike

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