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@@ -184,14 +184,16 @@ length. Single character labels using special characters, that being anything
184other than a letter or digit, are reserved for use by the Smack development 184other than a letter or digit, are reserved for use by the Smack development
185team. Smack labels are unstructured, case sensitive, and the only operation 185team. Smack labels are unstructured, case sensitive, and the only operation
186ever performed on them is comparison for equality. Smack labels cannot 186ever performed on them is comparison for equality. Smack labels cannot
187contain unprintable characters or the "/" (slash) character. 187contain unprintable characters or the "/" (slash) character. Smack labels
188cannot begin with a '-', which is reserved for special options.
188 189
189There are some predefined labels: 190There are some predefined labels:
190 191
191 _ Pronounced "floor", a single underscore character. 192 _ Pronounced "floor", a single underscore character.
192 ^ Pronounced "hat", a single circumflex character. 193 ^ Pronounced "hat", a single circumflex character.
193 * Pronounced "star", a single asterisk character. 194 * Pronounced "star", a single asterisk character.
194 ? Pronounced "huh", a single question mark character. 195 ? Pronounced "huh", a single question mark character.
196 @ Pronounced "Internet", a single at sign character.
195 197
196Every task on a Smack system is assigned a label. System tasks, such as 198Every task on a Smack system is assigned a label. System tasks, such as
197init(8) and systems daemons, are run with the floor ("_") label. User tasks 199init(8) and systems daemons, are run with the floor ("_") label. User tasks
@@ -412,6 +414,36 @@ sockets.
412 A privileged program may set this to match the label of another 414 A privileged program may set this to match the label of another
413 task with which it hopes to communicate. 415 task with which it hopes to communicate.
414 416
417Smack Netlabel Exceptions
418
419You will often find that your labeled application has to talk to the outside,
420unlabeled world. To do this there's a special file /smack/netlabel where you can
421add some exceptions in the form of :
422@IP1 LABEL1 or
423@IP2/MASK LABEL2
424
425It means that your application will have unlabeled access to @IP1 if it has
426write access on LABEL1, and access to the subnet @IP2/MASK if it has write
427access on LABEL2.
428
429Entries in the /smack/netlabel file are matched by longest mask first, like in
430classless IPv4 routing.
431
432A special label '@' and an option '-CIPSO' can be used there :
433@ means Internet, any application with any label has access to it
434-CIPSO means standard CIPSO networking
435
436If you don't know what CIPSO is and don't plan to use it, you can just do :
437echo 127.0.0.1 -CIPSO > /smack/netlabel
438echo 0.0.0.0/0 @ > /smack/netlabel
439
440If you use CIPSO on your 192.168.0.0/16 local network and need also unlabeled
441Internet access, you can have :
442echo 127.0.0.1 -CIPSO > /smack/netlabel
443echo 192.168.0.0/16 -CIPSO > /smack/netlabel
444echo 0.0.0.0/0 @ > /smack/netlabel
445
446
415Writing Applications for Smack 447Writing Applications for Smack
416 448
417There are three sorts of applications that will run on a Smack system. How an 449There are three sorts of applications that will run on a Smack system. How an