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eWEEK Labs Tests the Trusted Features Making Their Way into Mainstream OSes

eWEEK Labs Tests the Trusted Features Making Their Way into Mainstream OSes
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eWEEK Labs Tests the Trusted Features Making Their Way into Mainstream OSes

eWEEK Labs Tests the Trusted Features Making Their Way into Mainstream OSes

AppArmor, available as an add-on for Novells SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and recently released under the GNU GPL, sports a simple-to-use profile-building wizard, both in text and graphical (shown) flavors. The wizard helped us turn the systems learning


eWEEK Labs Tests the Trusted Features Making Their Way into Mainstream OSes

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As shown here in Fedora Core 5, SELinux offers lockdown Booleans as an alternative to complex policy rewriting.


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SELinux systems come with rewritten versions of basic tools for enabling and exposing SELinux functionality. Here, the command ls, prints the security context of a directory of files.


eWEEK Labs Tests the Trusted Features Making Their Way into Mainstream OSes

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We used Solaris 10s Process Rights Management to configure our Web server to start as a rights-limited user; we deployed the service in a walled-off Container for good measure.


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eWEEK Labs Tests the Trusted Features Making Their Way into Mainstream OSes

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Solaris privilege controls framework enables admins to dole out limited rights via roles.

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