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Provide a central policy override for emergency incident response #2

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Sidnioulz opened this issue Oct 10, 2014 · 0 comments
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Provide a method to enforce a deny on a specific capability for all applications regardless of their policies. This goes against the philosophy of WSM Default and should be used sparingly as a way to hot patch systems when an incident occurs. It should be advertised this way and understood this way by WSM Default.

Reserved keyword: Exec=!
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  • WSM Default must log all decisions made on an emergency policy override and complain loudly
  • This must be advertised as only for emergency response!
  • Requires hooking the override policy in get_permission to allow dual sources of policy
  • Also means this backend could be plugged on top of another one
  • Only [Soft] Deny is applicable. When a rule isn't present in the override source of policy, the normal policy file of an app:UID couple should be used

Methods: TBC

@Sidnioulz Sidnioulz added this to the enhancement milestone Oct 10, 2014
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