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MACLABEL(7)	     BSD Miscellaneous Information Manual	   MACLABEL(7)

NAME
     maclabel -- Mandatory Access Control label	format

DESCRIPTION
     If	Mandatory Access Control, or MAC, is enabled in	the kernel, then in
     addition to the traditional credentials, each subject (typically a	user
     or	a socket) and object (file system object, socket, etc.)	is given a MAC
     label.  The MAC label specifies the necessary subject-specific or object-
     specific information necessary for	a MAC security policy to enforce ac-
     cess control on the subject/object.

     The format	for a MAC label	is defined as follows:

	   policy1/qualifier1,policy2/qualifier2,...

     A MAC label consists of a policy name, followed by	a forward slash, fol-
     lowed by the subject or object's qualifier, optionally followed by	a
     comma and one or more additional policy labels.  For example:

	   biba/low(low-low)
	   biba/high(low-high),mls/equal(equal-equal),partition/0

SEE ALSO
     mac(3), posix1e(3), mac_biba(4), mac_bsdextended(4), mac_ifoff(4),
     mac_mls(4), mac_none(4), mac_partition(4),	mac_seeotheruids(4),
     mac_test(4), login.conf(5), getfmac(8), getpmac(8), ifconfig(8),
     setfmac(8), setpmac(8), mac(9)

HISTORY
     MAC first appeared	in FreeBSD 5.0.

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

BSD			       October 25, 2002				   BSD

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