Administrator's Guide

C.3.4 Disabling a FLAC policy

After reboot of the system, the final task for WLI configuration, WLI is in the highest security

state. To disable FLAC policy enforcement:

1. The administrator removes system-wide enforcement:

% wlisyspolicy -s flac=disabled -k /home/adm/adm.pvt

% wlisyspolicy -s mode=maintenance -k /home/adm/adm.pvt

The wlisyspolicy command returns a message indicating a reboot is necessary for the

security downgrade to be in effect if the downgrade attribute has value deferred.

2. The administrator removes /home/usr1/usr.pub authorization:

% wlicert -d usr1.key1 -k /home/adm/adm.pvt

C.3.5 Removing a FLAC policy

To remove a FLAC policy as user:

% wlipolicy -f -d -k /home/usr1/usr.pvt /tmp/passwd

To remove a FLAC policy as administrator:

% wlipolicy -f -d -k /home/adm/adm.pvt /tmp/passwd

C.4 IBAC policies

An IBAC policy prevents a regular file or directory from being accessed by all binary executables

except those explicitly identified. The access restrictions apply to all users including root user.

Multiple IBAC policies can be assigned to a file. A user must own a file to assign it an IBAC

policy. In the following example, the file /tmp/secret is assigned an IBAC policy allowing

/usr/bin/cat access. The administrator private key is /home/adm/adm.pvt. The user private

key file is /home/usr1/usr.pvt and the user public key file is /home/usr1/usr.pub.

C.4.1 Creating an IBAC policy

A binary executable must be signed to be specified in an IBAC policy. To sign /usr/bin/cat:

% wlisign -a -k /home/usr1/usr.pvt /usr/bin/cat

The user must have write permission on /usr/bin/cat. Normally only root with user ID 0 can

generate this signature.

To generate the IBAC policy:

% wlipolicy -i -a -k /home/usr1/usr.pvt -e /usr/bin/cat /tmp/secret

A prompt appears for the passphrase for /home/usr1/usr.pvt in both previous operations.

C.4.2 Enabling an IBAC policy

To enforce the IBAC policy:

% wlicert -i usr1.key1 -k /home/adm/adm.pvt /home/usr1/usr.pub

A prompt appears for the passphrase for /home/adm/adm.pvt.

C.4.3 Testing an IBAC policy

For example, the IBAC created and enabled in the previous example is tested. Assume /tmp/

secret has only the IBAC policy for /usr/bin/cat, as assigned in the previous example.

Verify system-wide policy enforcement is in effect:

% wlisyspolicy -g

The returned messages must include:

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