I doubt I'm the first person to have interest in doing this, but using search engines to look for "tomoyo blacklist" did not turn up much along these lines. I apologize if this has been answered and I've simply missed it.
First, some background of my understanding of the situation (in case I'm missing something or I misunderstood something): I realize that disallowing everything except what is whitelisted has numerous advantages over allowing everything except what is blacklisted. The problem with whitelisting mandatory access control (in general) is that the system is useless until policies have been created which cover everything. I'm rather fond of TOMOYO's approach to this, in which one can choose to either allow everything (disabled/learning/permissive modes) or disallow everything which is not whitelisted (enforcing mode), per domain. This allows me to slowly build up my policies, locking down one domain at a time. A very smart solution. However, this means that no file is protected by TOMOYO from being destroyed or altered until all domains are have full policies. It will take me a while to create policies for everything, and the better protected I can be in the mean time the better. What I would like to do, if TOMOYO supports this in some fashion, is to allow any domain which I have not yet created a policy for be able to do anything except what is blacklisted. Specifically, I'd like to protect files and directories such as my backups from being altered or destroyed by programs I've not created a policy for yet. Due to the fact that TOMOYO is pathname-based, I believe this would also require blacklisting symlinking and hardlinking to the files and directories I want to protect, and maybe blacklisting mounting as well. Or maybe I can simply protect them based on inode, which I don't believe would change despite hardlinking/symlinking/mounting. What I have been doing up until now is initialize_domain for specific programs such as /bin/rm, and in those whitelisting everything except what I want blacklisted. I would then no_initialize_domain /bin/rm for every other domain which I have created a policy for. This has already saved me from accidentally rm'ing files I wanted to keep. However, it does not protect those files from every program which could potentially harm them. The only way I was able to think of to do this would be to create an acl_group for all domains that have not yet had a policy written specifically for them yet. This acl_group would then be filled with everything I can allow (file execute, file read, misc env, ipc_signal, etc), except what I want to blacklist. Presumably that would require a lot of use of the \- wildcard. I am using TOMOYO Linux 1.8.x. I have two questions: (1) Is there anything I'm missing which would make this a bad idea? I suspect so, otherwise it'd likely be mentioned somewhere in the documentation, but I've been unable to think of anything else. I thought it best to ask on this mailing list before I try to use it. (2) Is there a better way to go about doing this other than what I have mentioned? Listing everything under "Domain policy syntax" in the acl_group seems a bit awkward, and I'm likely to miss something as I'm not completely familiar with all of the things which TOMOYO can allow/disallow. Thanks, Daniel _______________________________________________ tomoyo-users-en mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sourceforge.jp/mailman/listinfo/tomoyo-users-en
