Label Displays in the Trusted Solaris Environment

As discussed in "Mandatory Access Control", all applications and files in the Trusted Solaris environment have sensitivity labels (which may be hidden or visible) associated with them. The Trusted Solaris environment displays these labels in:

• window label stripes - above the window title bar

• window icon label stripes - under the minimized window

• the trusted stripe - in the Input IL and the Window SL indicators

• Query window label indicator - Trusted Path menu operation that displays the label of the window or icon specified by the pointer location

The following figure shows how labels display in an environment configured to display sensitivity labels. It also shows the pointer and indicator when you select Query Window. (Sensitivity labels appear inside square brackets ([]) .)

Figure 4-2 Window Labels in the Trusted Solaris Environment

A site can also be configured to hide sensitivity labels, as shown in the following figure.

Figure 4-3 Trusted Stripe with Sensitivity Labels Suppressed