PERFORCE change 24158 for review
Chris Costello
chris at freebsd.org
Sat Jan 25 00:39:01 GMT 2003
http://perforce.freebsd.org/chv.cgi?CH=24158
Change 24158 by chris at chris_holly on 2003/01/24 16:38:00
o Formatting nit
o Define MAC and DAC
Affected files ...
.. //depot/projects/trustedbsd/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/sec-arch/introduction/security-definitions.sgml#3 edit
Differences ...
==== //depot/projects/trustedbsd/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/sec-arch/introduction/security-definitions.sgml#3 (text+ko) ====
@@ -35,8 +35,7 @@
</section>
<!-- XXX: Can we come up with a better name for this section? -->
- <section
- id="introduction.security-definitions.classifications">
+ <section id="introduction.security-definitions.classifications">
<title>Subjects and Objects</title>
<!-- XXX: Does this resource reference also need to go? -->
@@ -59,6 +58,34 @@
<emphasis>subject</emphasis> with
<emphasis>person</emphasis>.</para>
</section>
+
+ <section id="introduction.security-definitions.dac">
+ <title>DAC</title>
+
+ <para><quote><acronym>DAC</acronym></quote> is short for
+ <emphasis>Discretionary Access Control</emphasis>.
+ <acronym>DAC</acronym> refers to the traditional file
+ permissions mechanism, as well as <acronym>ACLs</acronym>, or
+ Access Control Lists. <acronym>DAC</acronym> is so named
+ because its enforcement is directly at the discretion of the
+ file's owner: the owner can specify exactly what access
+ protections are necessary for the file.</para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section id="introduction.security-definitions.mac">
+ <title>MAC</title>
+
+ <para><quote><acronym>MAC</acronym></quote> is short for
+ <emphasis>Mandatory Access Control</emphasis>.
+ <acronym>MAC</acronym> refers to security policies which do not
+ allow the owner of a system object to directly decide what
+ access protections the object has, and what access protections
+ the object does not have. Often, a <acronym>MAC</acronym>
+ policy will allow subjects and objects to carry with it a
+ <quote>label</quote>. A <acronym>MAC</acronym> label consists
+ of additional metadata to be used by <acronym>MAC</acronym>
+ policies in deciding access protections.</para>
+ </section>
</chapter>
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