[Apparmor-dev] Re: AppArmor Security Goal

[Crispin Cowan]

Alan Cox wrote:
>> but how can the system know if the directory the user wants to add is 
>> reasonable or not? what if the user says they want to store their 
>> documents in /etc?
>>     
> A more clear example is wanting to wrap a specific tool with temporary
> rules. Those rules would depend on the exact file being edited at this
> moment - something root cannot know in advance
> (although with apparmor I guess mv $my_file apparmour_magic.name ; foo;
> mv it back might work 8))
>   
If you have unconfined root privilege on an AppArmor box, then setting
up a temporary profile is trivial. As Alan suggests, you could just have
a standard profile for /home/crispin/bin/foo and fun with mv would
switch programs in and out of it. Or for more control, just draft a new
policy and load it; it just takes a few seconds to cp the profile for
something else and edit it a bit, and then load it.

The big difference between the former and latter is that the former is
inflexible (it either works or it doesn't) and the latter requires
privilege.

Crispin

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