Is SELinux ready?

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Solaris has an analog to SELinux...but hardly anyone uses it

Solaris 8 introduced Role Based Access Control that offers much the same functionality. Solaris 10 adds process privilege levels as well (you can assign a userid a process privilege to bind to a low port for example). Combined they provide about 90% coverage of functionality you traditionally got in Trusted Solaris.

Funny thing is, I've seen and heard of very little use of these features in a real corporate environment. I think security needs to be more ingrained into the average sysadmin's mindset before we'll see much widespread adoption of this type of technology.

-chris

Posted by: Chris_H_z   Posted on: 01/20/05 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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