Trusted Solaris User's Guide

Tour: Launching an Application

All applications in the Trusted Solaris environment have sensitivity. Applications are subjects in any data transactions and must dominate (have an equal or higher label than) the objects (usually files) they try to access. The label information for an application is displayed in the window label stripe both when the window is open and when it is minimized). An application's labels also appear in the trusted stripe when the pointer is in its window.

  1. Click the Text Editor icon in the Front Panel to launch the Text Editor.

    Figure 3-6 Running an Application

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    In the example, the Text Editor has CONFIDENTIAL A B as its label. All applications launched in this workspace, from either the graphical interface or from a shell window have the same label. The trusted path symbol does not appear in the trusted stripe since you are not accessing the trusted computing base.

  2. Enter some text in the Text Editor and save the file (example shows textfile.1) using the Save option in the File menu.

    Figure 3-7 Entering Data and Saving a File

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    When you create a file in a Trusted Solaris session, the file takes on the label of the application that creates it, [CONFIDENTIAL A B] in the example.