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MAC(3)			 BSD Library Functions Manual			MAC(3)

NAME
     mac — introduction to the MAC security API

LIBRARY
     Standard C Library (libc, -lc)

SYNOPSIS
     #include <sys/mac.h>

     In the kernel configuration file:
     options MAC

DESCRIPTION
     Mandatory Access Control labels describe confidentiality, integrity, and
     other security attributes of operating system objects, overriding discre‐
     tionary access control.  Not all system objects support MAC labeling, and
     MAC policies must be explicitly enabled by the administrator.  This API,
     based on POSIX.1e, includes routines to retrieve, manipulate, set, and
     convert to and from text the MAC labels on files and processes.

     MAC labels consist of a set of (name, value) tuples, representing secu‐
     rity attributes from MAC policies.	 For example, this label contains
     security labels defined by two policies, mac_biba(4) and mac_mls(4):

	   biba/low,mls/low

     Further syntax and semantics of MAC labels may be found in maclabel(7).

     Applications operate on labels stored in mac_t, but can convert between
     this internal format and a text format for the purposes of presentation
     to uses or external storage.  When querying a label on an object, a mac_t
     must first be prepared using the interfaces described in mac_prepare(3),
     allowing the application to declare which policies it wishes to intero‐
     gate.  The application writer can also rely on default label names
     declared in mac.conf(5).

     When finished with a mac_t, the application must call mac_free(3) to
     release its storage.

     The following functions are defined:

     mac_is_present()
	     This function, described in mac_is_present(3), allows applica‐
	     tions to test whether MAC is configured, as well as whether spe‐
	     cific policies are configured.

     mac_get_fd(), mac_get_file(), mac_get_link(), mac_get_peer()
	     These functions, described in mac_get(3), retrieve the MAC labels
	     associated with file descriptors, files, and socket peers.

     mac_get_pid(), mac_get_proc()
	     These functions, described in mac_get(3), retrieve the MAC labels
	     associated with processes.

     mac_set_fd(), mac_set_file(), mac_set_link()
	     These functions, described in mac_set(3), set the MAC labels
	     associated with file descriptors and files.

     mac_set_proc()
	     This function, described in mac_set(3), sets the MAC label asso‐
	     ciated with the current process.

     mac_free()
	     This function, desribed in mac_free(3), frees working MAC label
	     storage.

     mac_from_text()
	     This function, described in mac_text(3), converts a text-form MAC
	     label into working MAC label storage, mac_t.

     mac_prepare(), mac_prepare_file_label(), mac_prepare_ifnet_label(),
	     mac_prepare_process_label(), mac_prepare_type()
	     These functions,  described in mac_prepare(3), allocate working
	     storage for MAC label operations.	mac_prepare(3) prepares a
	     label based on caller-specified label names; the other calls rely
	     on the default configuration specified in mac.conf(5).

     mac_to_text()
	     This function is described in mac_text(3), and may be used to
	     convert a mac_t into a text-form MAC label.

FILES
     /etc/mac.conf  MAC library configuration file, documented in mac.conf(5).
		    Provides default behavior for applications aware of MAC
		    labels on system objects, but without policy-specific
		    knowledge.

SEE ALSO
     mac_free(3), mac_get(3), mac_is_present(3), mac_prepare(3), mac_set(3),
     mac_text(3), posix1e(3), mac(4), mac.conf(5), mac(9)

STANDARDS
     These APIs are loosely based on the APIs described in POSIX.1e, as
     described in IEEE POSIX.1e draft 17.  However, the resemblence of these
     APIS to the POSIX APIs is loose, as the PSOXI APIS were unable to express
     some notinos required for flexible and extensible access control.

HISTORY
     Support for Mandatory Access Control was introduced in FreeBSD 5.0 as
     part of the TrustedBSD Project.

BUGS
     The TrustedBSD MAC Framework and associated policies, interfaces, and
     applications are considered to be an experimental feature in FreeBSD.
     Sites considering production deployment should keep the experimental sta‐
     tus of these services in mind during any deployment process.  See also
     mac(9) for related considerations regarding the kernel framework.

BSD				August 7, 2009				   BSD
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