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l0kod

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    Comment #46160135

    Island makes Landlock practical for everyday workflows by acting as a high-level wrapper and policy manager. Developed alongside the kernel feature and its Rust libraries, it bridg…

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    Comment #43473727

    Landlock supports scoped abstract UNIX socket: https://docs.kernel.org/userspace-api/landlock.html#ipc-scop... Landlock doesn't use namespaces, they are orthogonal.

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    Comment #43473546

    Seccomp is not an access control system, but Landlock is. Seccomp limits the kernel attack surface and Landlock enforces an access control. They are complementary. With Landlock, t…

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    Comment #43449715

    For instance, with Pledge, the "dns" promise is implemented with hardcoded path in the kernel. Linux is complex because it is versatile and flexible. Controlling access to such fea…

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    Comment #43448884

    BSD systems ship a kernel and user space, which simplifies a lot of things. Linux is more flexible but it comes at a cost. Adding new security features can also be challenging for …

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    Comment #43448747

    Namespaces (used by containers) are very powerful but they are also a door to a large attack surface: https://lwn.net/Articles/673597/ Landlock is (only) an access control system, …

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    Comment #43448239

    It takes time to develop theses features, but Landlock is gaining new network filtering features. We are working in a way to control socket creation according to their protocols, a…

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    Comment #43448137

    We are working on a JSON/TOML format for Landlock, with the related library, and bindings for several languages: https://github.com/landlock-lsm/landlockconfig We are working to ma…

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    Comment #42971137

    Namespace are very useful to build virtual environments, but I think it's important to keep in mind that they are not designed for sandboxing and don't provide security guarantees …

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    Comment #32228042

    There is an ongoing work to support network access-control: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220621082313.3330667-1-konstan...