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Add mac_grantbylabel

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Add mac_grantbylabel

This module allows controlled privilege escallation via mac labels
securely associated with a process via mac_veriexec.

There are over 700 PRIV_* but we can compress many of them into
a single GBL_* thus constraining the size of gbl labels.

The goal is to allow a daemon to run as an unprivileged process while
still being able a set of privileged operations needed.

We add APIs to libveriexec so that userland processes can check labels
and an exec_script API that allows a suitably labeled process to run
something like a python interpreter directly if necessary;
overcomming the 'indirect' flag applied to the interpreter.

Add -l option to sbin/veriexec to report labels.

Reviewed by: stevek
Sponsored by: Juniper Networks, Inc.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D41431

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Provenance
sjgAuthored on Aug 25 2023, 12:41 AM
Reviewer
stevek
Differential Revision
D41431: Add mac_grantbylabel
Parents
rG52c1066f52d4: UPDATING: add entry for 15.0-CURRENT
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