[cap-talk] Mandatory Access Control (was: What's "Discretionary Security")

[Ka-Ping Yee]

On Tue, 2 Jan 2007, Jed Donnelley wrote:
> I just thought I'd extend out a bit beyond the list to see if I could find any
> more modern sense in the terms "mandatory" and "discretionary" with
> regard to access control.
>
> Regarding MAC there's this:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandatory_access_control

The articles on access control in Wikipedia seem pretty unclear and
in many places inaccurate.  I ended up making a bunch of edits just
now on "access control", "access control lists", and "discretionary
access control".

I have by no means removed all the inaccuracies -- please check out
these articles and feel free (even encouraged!) to make your own
improvements to them.


-- ?!ng