Re: Defining new access vectors & security classes in policy modules ?

["Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 12:46:07PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> I'm working on adding fine grained access control to libvirt and need to
> define a bunch of new object classes & their corresponding access
> vectors.
> 
> For the sake of simplifying my developement / testing cycle, I'm wondering
> if it is possible to define access vectors / security classes in the
> individual policy module files, rather than in the top level global
> flash/{access_vectors,security_classes} file, which would require me to
> rebuild the entire policy for every change I make.

Also, I see the 'security_deny_unknown()' method call tell you whether
the kernel policy wants unknown object classes/access vectors to be
treated as a denial or not. Is it possible to toggle the allow/deny
behaviour with a runtime tunable as we setenforce, or is it hardcoded
in the policy ?

Regards,
Daniel
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