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by jude- 1893 days ago
> The only working plugin is the SELinux one. If you can't use that, you have to rebuild an entire new security architecture

I stopped reading at this point. If you're not going to read the documentation, then you can kindly go crawl back under your rock on /r/linuxmasterrace.

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I was familiar with that documentation around 10 years ago, please stop making these assumptions and please stop dismissing what I have to say. The documentation is irrelevant, I'm talking about the server source code. There is one real plugin implementation there that uses SELinux. That's it. There is currently no other real way to use XACE, it's otherwise totally useless to end users.

Yes people could develop new plugins that integrate with some other security mechanism, but they haven't, in part because the hooks are so out of date, and in part because, you know, that requires building another security mechanism. The access hooks are not a security mechanism, they allow you to integrate with some external MAC.