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From:   James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
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On Wed, 3 Jun 2020, Casey Schaufler wrote:

> On 6/3/2020 3:12 PM, James Morris wrote:
> > On Wed, 3 Jun 2020, Casey Schaufler wrote:
> >
> >> The use of security modules was expected to be rare.
> > This is not correct. Capabilities were ported to LSM and stacked from the 
> > beginning, and several major distros worked on LSM so they could ship 
> > their own security modules.
> 
> Capabilities has always been a special case.
> Until Android adopted SELinux the actual use of LSMs was rare.

Nope, it was enabled by default in several distros and very widely 
deployed in the govt space (at least).

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James Morris
<jmorris@namei.org>