Documentation

FMAC Documentation

The OpenSolaris Flexible Mandatory Access Control (FMAC) project plans to develop documentation to be posted on the OpenSolaris FMAC project site.

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Discussion Forum

• fmac-discuss@opensolaris.org

FMAC Project Documentation

The following sections list the man pages available for the FMAC project.

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System Management Commands

• checkpolicy(1M) Text,  PDF
• getenforce(1M) Text,  PDF
• getfilecon(1M) Text,  PDF
• loadpolicy(1M) Text,  PDF
• pcon(1M) Text,  PDF
• setenforce(1M) Text,  PDF
• setfilecon(1M) Text,  PDF
• setfiles(1M) Text,  PDF

File Formats

• policy.conf(4) Text,  PDF

Standards, Environments, and Macros

• fmac(5) Text,  PDF

About the Flask Architecture and SELinux

The Inevitability of Failure: The Flawed Assumption of Security in Modern Computing Environments argues that secure operating systems must be the basis of system security

The Flask Security Architecture: System Support for Diverse Security Policies describes the Flask security architecture, which is used by the FMAC project

In addition to these papers, visit the National Security Agency's SELinux Documentation page for more papers,
technical reports, and presentations about the security enhanced Linux (SELinux) project.

For an introduction to SELinux, see Getting Started with SE Linux HOWTO: the new SE Linux by Faye Coker.