September 2014
Intermediate to advanced
240 pages
5h 53m
English
The interface names used to simplify policy development can be freely chosen. However, the reference policy itself uses a naming convention to try and structure the names used so that the SELinux policy developers can easily find the interfaces they need—if they exist—and give an unambiguous name to an interface they want to create.
The naming convention for the reference policy is available online at http://oss.tresys.com/projects/refpolicy/wiki/InterfaceNaming.
In this recipe, we'll do a pen-and-paper exercise to see how the naming convention works. In the example, we will create interface names for three situations:
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