tools that present a graphical abstraction of a SELinux policy
Stephen Smalley
sds at tycho.nsa.gov
Fri May 16 12:14:49 UTC 2008
On Fri, 2008-05-16 at 08:28 +0200, Christian Lange wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm a student of the university of Rostock, In the scope of my master
> thesis I want to get an
> overview about existing graphical tools (commercial or free),
> abstracting from underlying SELinux
> details, helping users to define and maintain SELinux policies (TE &
> MCS). So far, I found the
> following tools:
> - SLIDE
> - VIRGIL
> - Tresys Brickwall Security Suite
> They only use masks for data input and don't abstract from the policy
> to show a graph.
>
> My questions are:
> - Is there any tool that creates a abstract view of a policy as a
> graph or something like that?
> - Is there any demand for such a tool?
Your question is better suited to the upstream selinux at tycho.nsa.gov
mailing list than to this list, as it is not specific to Fedora.
However, let me point you to this resource:
http://selinuxproject.org/page/User_Resources#Tools
In particular, the Cross Domain Solution Framework is graph-oriented,
http://oss.tresys.com/projects/cdsframework
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Stephen Smalley
National Security Agency
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