[PLUG] Help Needed

[harshad wadkar]

Respected Sir,

Sincere thanks for the immediate reply.

I will work according to your suggestions and let you know my progress.

Thanks & Regards

Harshad

On Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 11:09 PM, Siddhesh Poyarekar <
siddhesh.poyarekar at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 25 October 2017 at 23:03, harshad wadkar <harshad.wadkar at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > My information :
> > Name : Harshad Wadkar
> > Student : PhD student
> > Area of Interest : Browser security, Operating system security.
> >
> > Sir,
> >
> > I am trying to solve a problem wherein I would like to give (read, write)
> > access to file X, if it is accessed by only application Y and again if
> the
> > application Y is invoked by root user.
> >
> > I have gone through the documentation of Apparmor, seccomp etc. But not
> able
> > to find solution to the problem I am trying to solve.
> >
> > If you can suggest me a tool or api or library that will help me to
> solve my
> > problem, it will be great.
>
> You could set the file ownership to root and chmod it 600.  Then use
> selinux to patch the context of the file and the application so that
> the file can only be opened by that application.  I don't know how to
> do the latter off the top of my head but there should be howtos out
> there for it.
>
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