Re: [Dazuko-help] General Info

[John Ogness]

Licon, Salvador wrote:
> I am a newcomer to Dazuko and would like to know if anyone could 
> describe Dazuko with reference to SELinux.  Are both trying to 
> accomplish similar tasks?

Hi,

SELinux was designed to support various security policies on your system. 
For a quick reference, you may want to take a look at the SELinux FAQ:

http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/info/faq.cfm

Dazuko, on the other hand, simply provides an interface for *userland* file 
access control. Dazuko is used by many anti-virus products to support 
on-access scanning. It could also be used if you wanted to write a simple 
program to monitor or dynamically control which files users access.

For example, using Dazuko you could write a simple perl script that denies 
access to a certain directory during certain times. Or you could monitor the 
file activity of a certain user or a certain process.

Dazuko may or may not be used for security. It is there to provide a 
*userland* interface for file access control.

John Ogness

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Dazuko Maintainer