Role-based Access Control in SELinux

Posted by IdaAshley on Feb 18, 2008 6:44 PM EDT
IBM/developerWorks; By Serge E. Hallyn
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Role-based access control (RBAC) is a general security model that simplifies administration by assigning roles to users and then assigning permissions to those roles. Learn how RBAC in SELinux acts as a layer of abstraction between the user and the underlying TE model, and how the three pieces of an SELinux context (policy, kernel, and userspace) work together to enforce the RBAC and tie Linux users into the TE policy.

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