[Discuss] grsecurity

[Tom Metro]

Richard Pieri wrote:
> Because SELinux requires a great deal of sysadmin time and effort and
> expertise to craft the jails and security policies.
> 
> gsecurity does all this right out of the box.

I got what you meant, but that's a UI or config layer problem. What I'm
saying is that gsecurity could have used the SELinux (or AppArmor, or
whatever) Linux Security Module[1] to implement their rules, and wrap it
with their own UI or config system to make it turn key and less error prone.

Hopefully someone will point out that there was a technical
justification for not reusing an existing LSM.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Security_Modules

 -Tom

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