[apparmor] [PATCH] make private-files* more strict

Steve Beattie steve at nxnw.org
Fri Jan 7 18:44:44 UTC 2011


On Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 10:56:23AM -0600, Jamie Strandboge wrote:
> A bug was reported in Ubuntu[1] regarding disallowing access to
> autostart directories. This patch takes that slightly farther and does:
> 
> abstractions/private-files: don't allow wl to autostart directories
> abstractions/private-files-strict: don't allow access to:
>   - chromium
>   - thunderbird
>   - evolution
>   - kmail
>   - kwallet
> 
> Nominated for 2.5. I'd be happy to see more additions to private-files*
> as they are blacklists and therefore not complete, but at least with
> this patch we add some important restrictions to kde, chromium and gui
> email files (the intended focus being on passwords).

I generally support this idea; however, you forgot to attach your patch.
:-)

-- 
Steve Beattie
<sbeattie at ubuntu.com>
http://NxNW.org/~steve/
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