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Use AppArmor

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Use AppArmor

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- [Instructor] There are two mandatory access control systems for Linux: SELinux and AppArmor. SELinux was created by the National Security Administration. AppArmor was created by Immunix Linux. Novell bought Immunix and it became part of SUSE Linux. AppArmor gained popularity when Ubuntu started using it. SELinux and AppArmor as mandatory access control systems attempt to do the same thing, supplement the discretionary access control systems, such as standard Unix permissions and file access control list, although they go about this differently. SELinux is a very complex system that supports multi-level security, which is useful for government projects as well as type enforcement. SELinux is Inode-based so all files are labeled with a security context. This means that if you move an inaccessible file or you create a hard link to that inaccessible file, it will still be inaccessible. Because the security context…

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