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From: | John Ogness |
Subject: | Re: [Dazuko-help] General Info |
Date: | Thu, 07 Jul 2005 08:45:38 +0200 |
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Licon, Salvador wrote:
I am a newcomer to Dazuko and would like to know if anyone could describe Dazuko with reference to SELinux. Are both trying to accomplish similar tasks?
Hi,SELinux was designed to support various security policies on your system. For a quick reference, you may want to take a look at the SELinux FAQ:
http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/info/faq.cfmDazuko, on the other hand, simply provides an interface for *userland* file access control. Dazuko is used by many anti-virus products to support on-access scanning. It could also be used if you wanted to write a simple program to monitor or dynamically control which files users access.
For example, using Dazuko you could write a simple perl script that denies access to a certain directory during certain times. Or you could monitor the file activity of a certain user or a certain process.
Dazuko may or may not be used for security. It is there to provide a *userland* interface for file access control.
John Ogness -- Dazuko Maintainer
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