Assigning common policies to new applications
In between the strong isolation of an SELinux sandbox and the broad permissions of unconfined domains (or even permissive domains) sits the sufficiently privileged application domain. For most administrators, having a proper SELinux domain for applications is the best way forward, as it allows all the common behaviors and restricts unwanted ones.
When we start looking at application domains, however, we notice that there is differentiation in complexity, and as an administrator, we need to understand what the complexity is about before we can make the right choice.
Understanding domain complexity
SELinux is able to provide full system confinement: each and every application runs in its own restricted environment that it cannot break out of. But that requires fine-grained policies that are developed as quickly as the new releases of all the applications they confine.
Developing fine-grained policies at this speed is not possible...
