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Mandatory Access Control
Does anyone understand MAC? I've been reading the handbook article on it:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO...dbook/mac.html but I still don't really understand it. I understand what most of the various modules do but I don't understand what the advantages of using MAC are over simple file permissions. The most confusing to me is the multi-level security module - http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO...k/mac-mls.html - I just don't get it. Can someone provide a 'MAC for dummies' type explanation? |
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www.trustedbsd.org have many documentations, including MAC and MLS ....
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Yeah, I've seen that link before, I still don't understand though
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What? You don't understand english?
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You will need MAC if you have to implement auditing or stronger security. Basically with MAC a security administrator can define that even the owner of an object cannot to everything with his object. Usually this requirement arises in highly security sensitive areas like military, governmental or core business services.
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Not only do I understand English, I am English.
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Come on guys... can't we contribute something a bit more than this to questions asked here?
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