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MAC_BSDEXTENDED(4)	    Kernel Interfaces Manual	    MAC_BSDEXTENDED(4)

NAME
       mac_bsdextended -- file system firewall policy

SYNOPSIS
       To  compile the file system firewall policy into	your kernel, place the
       following lines in your kernel configuration file:

	     options MAC
	     options MAC_BSDEXTENDED

       Alternately, to load the	file system firewall  policy  module  at  boot
       time, place the following line in your kernel configuration file:

	     options MAC

       and in loader.conf(5):

	     mac_bsdextended_load="YES"

DESCRIPTION
       The  mac_bsdextended  security  policy module provides an interface for
       the system administrator	to impose mandatory rules regarding users  and
       some system objects.  Rules are uploaded	to the module (typically using
       ugidfw(8),  or  some  other tool	utilizing libugidfw(3))	where they are
       stored internally and used to determine whether to allow	or  deny  spe-
       cific accesses (see ugidfw(8)).

IMPLEMENTATION NOTES
       While  the  traditional mac(9) entry points are implemented, policy la-
       bels are	not used; instead, access control decisions are	made by	 iter-
       ating  through the internal list	of rules until a rule which denies the
       particular access is found, or the end of the  list  is	reached.   The
       mac_bsdextended	policy	works  similar	to ipfw(8) or by using a first
       match semantic.	This means that	not all	rules are  applied,  only  the
       first  matched rule; thus if Rule A allows access and Rule B blocks ac-
       cess, Rule B will never be applied.

   Sysctls
       The  following  sysctls	may  be	 used  to  tweak   the	 behavior   of
       mac_bsdextended:

       security.mac.bsdextended.enabled
	       Set to zero or one to toggle the	policy off or on.

       security.mac.bsdextended.rule_count
	       List  the  number  of  defined rules, the maximum rule count is
	       current set at 256.

       security.mac.bsdextended.rule_slots
	       List the	number of rule slots currently being used.

       security.mac.bsdextended.firstmatch_enabled
	       Toggle between the old all rules	match  functionality  and  the
	       new  first  rule	matches	functionality.	This is	enabled	by de-
	       fault.

       security.mac.bsdextended.logging
	       Log all access violations via the AUTHPRIV syslog(3) facility.

       security.mac.bsdextended.rules
	       Currently does nothing interesting.

SEE ALSO
       libugidfw(3), syslog(3),	mac(4),	mac_biba(4), mac_ddb(4), mac_ifoff(4),
       mac_lomac(4),	  mac_mls(4),	   mac_none(4),	     mac_partition(4),
       mac_portacl(4),	mac_seeotheruids(4),  mac_test(4), ipfw(8), ugidfw(8),
       mac(9)

HISTORY
       The mac_bsdextended policy module first appeared	in FreeBSD 5.0 and was
       developed by the	TrustedBSD Project.

       The "match first	case" and logging capabilities were later added	by Tom
       Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org>.

AUTHORS
       This software was contributed to	the FreeBSD Project by NAI  Labs,  the
       Security	  Research   Division	of   Network   Associates  Inc.	 under
       DARPA/SPAWAR contract N66001-01-C-8035 ("CBOSS"), as part of the	 DARPA
       CHATS research program.

FreeBSD	14.3			 May 21, 2005		    MAC_BSDEXTENDED(4)

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