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SELinux DocumentationIntegrating Flexible Support for Security Policies into the Linux Operating SystemPeter Loscocco, National Security Agency AbstractThe protection mechanisms of current mainstream operating systems are inadequate to support confidentiality and integrity requirements for end systems. Mandatory access control (MAC) is needed to address such requirements, but the limitations of traditional MAC have inhibited its adoption into mainstream operating systems. NSA worked with Secure Computing Corporation (SCC) to develop a flexible MAC architecture called Flask to overcome the limitations of traditional MAC. NSA has implemented this architecture in the Linux operating system, producing a Security-enhanced Linux (SELinux) prototype, to make the technology available to a wider community and to enable further research into secure operating systems. NAI Labs has developed an example security policy configuration to demonstrate the benefits of the architecture and to provide a foundation for others to use. This paper describes the security architecture, security mechanisms, application programming interface, security policy configuration, and performance of SELinux. The paper appears in the Proceedings of the FREENIX Track: 2001 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (FREENIX '01), June 2001 and is also available here in: * To view documents stored as Portable Document Format (PDF) files your local computer must have a viewer application or a Web browser plug-in that supports the PDF file format.
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Date Posted: Jan 15, 2009 | Last Modified: Jan 15, 2009 | Last Reviewed: Jan 15, 2009 |











