This functionality is now also available on the seandroid-4.3 branch,
and the wiki has been updated to describe it,
http://selinuxproject.org/page/SEforAndroid#Middleware_MAC

On 10/10/2013 12:48 PM, rpcraig wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>     We've recently released a new set of middleware mac (MMAC) controls
> that are working toward replacing the obsolete revoke-perms and cp_mac
> branches.  This new feature, called Eops (enterprise operations), is a
> security extension to the AppOps (application operations) feature that
> is already present on Android 4.3+ devices. While being hidden in AOSP,
> AppOps lets users fine tune certain functionality requested by apps by
> allowing the user to toggle access rights. Eops has exposed the
> management console under the Settings app and  provided an extension to
> the AppOps security service code whereby a hard coded set of rules
> explicitly denies certain access rights to groups of installed apps.
> These extensions will allow an enterprise like control over certain
> operations after an app has been successfully installed. Eops is not a
> frontend for SELinux which somehow ties app permissions to SELinux
> contexts. Rather, it is an extension of the MMAC controls that currently
> exist on Android devices, using the seinfo labels that are already
> assigned to apps upon install. Presently, Eops can not fully meet the
> entire functionality and controls offered by the revoke-perms and cp_mac
> projects. It is our goal to further explore ways to either bring the
> remaining functionality of both revoke-perms and cp_mac over to this new
> implementation or asses whether those additional controls and
> functionality are truly needed. Regardless of implementation design, we
> are no longer going to actively develop against the revoke-perms and
> cp_mac branches. We see Eops as a viable way forward in this regard.
> 
> In order to try out this new feature you'll first need to be working
> from our main seandroid branches and then update your local_manifest.xml
> file; we've included the Settings app as a maintained project. Be sure
> to copy the new local_manifest.xml to .repo/local_manifest.xml and then
> simply do a repo sync. We've decided to keep this new feature set on our
> main seandroid branches and might consider back porting to other
> branches in the future. Some useful information about Eops and the
> policy file that drives it can be found at external/sepolicy/eops.xml.
> Feedback on design, implementation and feature-requests are always welcome.
> 
> Thanks
> 
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