Poll for users: mac_partition and mac_ifoff policies

[Vlad GALU]

On 7/8/06, Robert Watson <rwatson at freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> Dear all,
>
> I'm currently in the process of reviewing the use of the MAC Framework in
> FreeBSD, following meetings at the developer summit about proposed
> simplifications and enhancements.  One of the on-going concerns I have had is
> that several of the policies we ship are reference implementation policies,
> rather than reference user policies:
>
> mac_ifoff       - Interface silencing
> mac_partition   - Process space partitions
> mac_stub        - Stub MAC policy entry points
> mac_test        - Invariants testing
>
> While mac_stub and mac_test are both extremely useful for devleopers as
> shipped, it's not clear to me that mac_ifoff and mac_partition offer
> significantly similar value, and as they are reference policies rather than
> production policies, my leaning is to provide them as downloads on the
> TrustedBSD web site and via p4, but to not ship them with FreeBSD 7.0.  So
> this e-mail is to poll to see if anyone is currently using the mac_ifoff and
> mac_partition policies in production, and would object on those grounds to
> shipping them separately from the base OS.

   I use mac_partition in production. However, I wouldn't mind having
it as a separate module as long as it doesn't become cumbersome to the
update (buildworld, installworld) process. In other words, I'd like
having it in sync with whatever OS branch I'm using.

>
> Robert N M Watson
> Computer Laboratory
> University of Cambridge
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