Gentoo Archives: gentoo-hardened

From: "Anthony G. Basile" <blueness@g.o>
To: gentoo-hardened@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-hardened] New selinux "feature" profile
Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 02:02:53
Message-Id: 4DD1D6B2.5050608@gentoo.org
1 Hi everyone,
2
3 Tomorrow I'll be adding a new selinux "feature" profile to the tree.
4 The idea behind this is like other features, it can be stacked on top of
5 other profiles and add a feature to that profile, in this case make it
6 selinux aware.
7
8 We've already done preliminary testing and found that it "works" for
9 hardened/linux/amd64, hardened/linux/amd64/no-multilib,
10 hardened/linux/x86, as well as some vanilla profiles. Works here means
11 "not without some kinks."
12
13 You'll see one or two new profiles appear. On amd64, you'll get two new
14 profiles:
15
16 hardened/linux/amd64/selinux
17 hardened/linux/amd64/no-multilib/selinux
18
19 and on x86 you'll get
20
21 hardened/linux/x86/selinux
22
23 As the name suggests, these will stack selinux on top of their
24 respective hardened profile.
25
26 You are free to test these, but remember they'll be marked "dev" and not
27 "stable". Also these do NOT replace the current selinux profiles
28 selinux/v2refpolicy/*. In time, they be obsolete them, but for the time
29 being, the new feature profile is experimental.
30
31 --
32 Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D.
33 Gentoo Linux Developer [Hardened]
34 E-Mail : blueness@g.o
35 GnuPG FP : 8040 5A4D 8709 21B1 1A88 33CE 979C AF40 D045 5535
36 GnuPG ID : D0455535