Trusted Extensions APIs and Security Policy

The Trusted Extensions feature of the Oracle Solaris OS (Trusted Extensions) provides application programming interfaces (APIs) that enable you to write applications that access and handle labels. This chapter summarizes the API functionality and introduces you to the Trusted Extensions security policy.

For Trusted Extensions term definitions, see the glossary in the Trusted Extensions User’s Guide.

For examples of how the Trusted Extensions APIs are used in the Oracle Solaris operating system (Oracle Solaris OS), see the Oracle Solaris source code. Go to the OpenSolaris web site and click Source Browser in the left navigation bar. Use the Source Browser to search through the Oracle Solaris source code.

This chapter covers the following topics:

• Understanding Labels

• Trusted Extensions APIs

• Trusted Extensions Security Policy