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MAC(4) Kernel Interfaces Manual MAC(4) NAME mac -- Mandatory Access Control SYNOPSIS options MAC DESCRIPTION Introduction The Mandatory Access Control, or MAC, framework allows administrators to finely control system security by providing for a loadable security policy architecture. It is important to note that due to its nature, MAC security policies may only restrict access relative to one another and the base system policy; they cannot override traditional Unix secu- rity provisions such as file permissions and superuser checks. Currently, the following MAC policy modules are shipped with FreeBSD: Name Description Labeling Load time mac_biba(4) Biba integrity policy yes boot only mac_bsdextended(4) File system firewall no any time mac_ifoff(4) Interface silencing no any time mac_lomac(4) Low-Watermark MAC policy yes boot only mac_mls(4) Confidentiality policy yes boot only mac_none(4) Sample no-op policy no any time mac_partition(4) Process partition policy yes any time mac_portacl(4) Port bind(2) access control no any time mac_seeotheruids(4) See-other-UIDs policy no any time mac_test(4) MAC testing policy no any time MAC Labels Each system subject (processes, sockets, etc.) and each system object (file system objects, sockets, etc.) can carry with it a MAC label. MAC labels contain data in an arbitrary format taken into consideration in making access control decisions for a given operation. Most MAC la- bels on system subjects and objects can be modified directly or indi- rectly by the system administrator. The format for a given policy's label may vary depending on the type of object or subject being la- beled. More information on the format for MAC labels can be found in the maclabel(7) man page. MAC Support for UFS2 File Systems By default, file system enforcement of labeled MAC policies relies on a single file system label (see "MAC Labels") in order to make access control decisions for all the files in a particular file system. With some policies, this configuration may not allow administrators to take full advantage of features. In order to enable support for labeling files on an individual basis for a particular file system, the "multilabel" flag must be enabled on the file system. To set the "multilabel" flag, drop to single-user mode and unmount the file sys- tem, then execute the following command: tunefs -l enable filesystem where filesystem is either the mount point (in fstab(5)) or the special file (in /dev) corresponding to the file system on which to enable mul- tilabel support. Policy Enforcement Policy enforcement is divided into the following areas of the system: File System File system mounts, modifying directories, modifying files, etc. KLD Loading, unloading, and retrieving statistics on loaded kernel modules Network Network interfaces, bpf(4), packet delivery and transmission, interface configuration (ioctl(2), ifconfig(8)) Pipes Creation of and operation on pipe(2) objects Processes Debugging (e.g. ktrace(2)), process visibility (ps(1)), process execu- tion (execve(2)), signalling (kill(2)) Sockets Creation of and operation on socket(2) objects System Kernel environment (kenv(1)), system accounting (acct(2)), reboot(2), settimeofday(2), swapon(2), sysctl(3), nfsd(8)-related operations VM mmap(2)-ed files Setting MAC Labels From the command line, each type of system object has its own means for setting and modifying its MAC policy label. Subject/Object Utility File system object setfmac(8), setfsmac(8) Network interface ifconfig(8) TTY (by login class) login.conf(5) User (by login class) login.conf(5) Additionally, the su(1) and setpmac(8) utilities can be used to run a command with a different process label than the shell's current label. Programming With MAC MAC security enforcement itself is transparent to application programs, with the exception that some programs may need to be aware of addi- tional errno(2) returns from various system calls. The interface for retrieving, handling, and setting policy labels is documented in the mac(3) man page. SEE ALSO mac(3), mac_biba(4), mac_bsdextended(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), login.conf(5), maclabel(7), getfmac(8), getpmac(8), setfmac(8), setpmac(8), mac(9) "Mandatory Access Control", The FreeBSD Handbook, http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mac.html. HISTORY The mac implementation first appeared in FreeBSD 5.0 and was developed by the TrustedBSD Project. AUTHORS This software was contributed to the FreeBSD Project by Network Asso- ciates 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. BUGS See mac(9) concerning appropriateness for production use. The TrustedBSD MAC Framework is considered experimental in FreeBSD. While the MAC Framework design is intended to support the containment of the root user, not all attack channels are currently protected by entry point checks. As such, MAC Framework policies should not be re- lied on, in isolation, to protect against a malicious privileged user. FreeBSD 9.0 October 30, 2007 MAC(4)
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