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@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
"Good for you, you've decided to clean the elevator!"
- The Elevator, from Dark Star
-Smack is the the Simplified Mandatory Access Control Kernel.
+Smack is the Simplified Mandatory Access Control Kernel.
Smack is a kernel based implementation of mandatory access
control that includes simplicity in its primary design goals.
@@ -117,6 +117,17 @@ access2
ambient
This contains the Smack label applied to unlabeled network
packets.
+change-rule
+ This interface allows modification of existing access control rules.
+ The format accepted on write is:
+ "%s %s %s %s"
+ where the first string is the subject label, the second the
+ object label, the third the access to allow and the fourth the
+ access to deny. The access strings may contain only the characters
+ "rwxat-". If a rule for a given subject and object exists it will be
+ modified by enabling the permissions in the third string and disabling
+ those in the fourth string. If there is no such rule it will be
+ created using the access specified in the third and the fourth strings.
cipso
This interface allows a specific CIPSO header to be assigned
to a Smack label. The format accepted on write is:
@@ -193,6 +204,16 @@ onlycap
these capabilities are effective at for processes with any
label. The value is set by writing the desired label to the
file or cleared by writing "-" to the file.
+ptrace
+ This is used to define the current ptrace policy
+ 0 - default: this is the policy that relies on smack access rules.
+ For the PTRACE_READ a subject needs to have a read access on
+ object. For the PTRACE_ATTACH a read-write access is required.
+ 1 - exact: this is the policy that limits PTRACE_ATTACH. Attach is
+ only allowed when subject's and object's labels are equal.
+ PTRACE_READ is not affected. Can be overriden with CAP_SYS_PTRACE.
+ 2 - draconian: this policy behaves like the 'exact' above with an
+ exception that it can't be overriden with CAP_SYS_PTRACE.
revoke-subject
Writing a Smack label here sets the access to '-' for all access
rules with that subject label.