On Fri, 2006-08-11 at 15:32 -0500, Kris Wilson wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 08/11/2006 03:02:03 PM:
> 
> > On Fri, 11 Aug 2006, Stephen Smalley wrote:
> > 
> > > On Fri, 2006-08-11 at 16:34 -0300, Thiago Jung Bauermann wrote:
> > > > Hi folks,
> > > > 
> > > > What is the status of the node and netif hooks in light of the 
> recent
> > > > networking developments (secmark, CIPSO, netlabel, mlsxfrm...)? Are 
> they
> > > > being removed? Not removed but obsoleted? If the latter are they
> > > > affected in their functionality?
> > > > 
> > > > It seems secmark removes those hooks, but then a compatibility flag 
> can
> > > > be turned on to get them back, right?
> > > 
> > > Well, yes and no.
> > > 
> > > secmark is intended to supersede the old netif/node/port checks. There
> > > is ongoing work to integrate secmark fully.  It would be preferable if
> > > you could use it for your purposes rather than the old checks. 
> > 
> > Eventually, I think it'd be good to remove the old controls (but not for 
> 
> > some time, perhaps a year or two).
> 
> An additional question is will the node and netif constraints remain in
> the mls policy for RHEL5?  From the comment above, it sounds as though 
> they 
> will.

They might be present, but they aren't achieving anything unless
compat_net is enabled, because those checks are disabled.

-- 
Stephen Smalley
National Security Agency

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