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<title>Synopsis</title>
<indexterm><primary>MAC</primary></indexterm>
<indexterm><primary>Mandatory Access Controls</primary></indexterm>
<indexterm><primary>Mandatory Access Control</primary></indexterm>
<para>The TrustedBSD project was founded to meet the rising
security requirements of modern operating systems. This project
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(<acronym>ACLs</acronym>) and Mandatory Access Control
(<acronym>MAC</acronym>) mechanisms.</para>
<para>So what is <acronym>MAC</acronym>? Mandatory Access Controls
are rules that control how users access a system in order to
<para>So what is <acronym>MAC</acronym>? Mandatory Access Control
is a mechanism that allows the system administrator to define
the protection decisions for system objects. The administrator
can define a policy to
prohibit the unauthorized disclosure of any system or user data;
or provide for the indefinite integrity of system objects or
subjects. For a definition of what objects and subjects are,
see below. The mandatory part of the definition comes from the
fact that the enforcement of the controls is done by
administrators and the system, and is not left up to the
discretion of users as is done with discretionary access controls
discretion of users as is done with discretionary access control
(<acronym>DAC</acronym>, the normal access method).</para>
<para>This entire chapter will focus primarily on the
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enable/disable the policy completely.<footnote><para>Due to
a bug the <literal>security.mac.portacl.enabled</literal>
<command>sysctl</command> variable will not work on
&os;&nbsp;5.2 or previous releases.</para></footnote></para>
&os;&nbsp;5.2.1 or previous releases.</para></footnote></para>
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