{"id":34,"date":"2006-11-08T12:24:21","date_gmt":"2006-11-08T12:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bodhost.com\/kb\/\/web-hosting\/?p=34"},"modified":"2026-02-26T14:04:59","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T14:04:59","slug":"securitized-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bodhost.com\/kb\/securitized-linux\/","title":{"rendered":"SE-Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p><span class=\"NormalWebChar\">The necessary access control implementation which uses LSM in the kernel is mainly based on the principle of less-known preferences. Well, not a Linux distribution but you call it as a combination set of modifications<\/span> that<span class=\"NormalWebChar\"> applied to Unix-O.S.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>This was initially developed by the US National Security Agency and was released in 2000; other development teams include Network Associates, Secure Computing Corporation, and Tresys.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>It basically a FLASK implementation that integrates into the versions of the Linux kernel with different utilities designed to demonstrate the value of necessary access controls.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>A kernel like this consists of architectural components which prototyped in the Fluke O.S. The kernel integrating SELinux pressurizes necessary access control policies which confine user programs and system servers to the minimum amount of preference.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>This reduces the ability of the programs to harm. 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