Questions about Trusted BSD

Tom Rhodes trhodes at FreeBSD.org
Thu May 6 01:28:24 GMT 2004


On Wed, 5 May 2004 21:01:32 -0400 (EDT)
Robert Watson <rwatson at FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> There is somewhat dated documentation of the MAC Framework policy API in
> the FreeBSD Developer's Handbook; I need to update it to the latest
> version of the API, but it isn't a bad guide to the approach, etc.  There
> is a lot less in the way of user documentation -- the policy man pages for
> the simple modules (mac_portacl, ugidfw/mac_bsdextended) are fairly
> complete, but there's relatively little information on managing systems
> with complex policies such as MLS and Biba.  With the SEBSD policy module,
> pretty much all SELinux documentation will apply, as well as the policy
> management tools from Treysys.  So there's definitely a niche for more
> documentation :-).  Tom Rhodes has indicated to me that he's planning to
> substantially expand the MAC chapter in the FreeBSD Handbook, drawing in
> part from Bugghy's tutorial, which should be good.  Perhaps we can get him
> to post some drafts...

Well, at only 38? lines, I'd like to get a little more information
in it and perhaps remove some of my simple notes.  Although I'd
like to have this done by Monday.  I'll be offline all day
tomorrow and hopefully that will give me some time to get this
a lot further along.  :)

-- 
Tom Rhodes

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