Trusted Extensions binaries have been part of Solaris since the 3rd update release of Solaris 10. Over the weekend Trusted Extensions entered a new and very exciting era. Not only is it now part of the Solaris 10 binary product but there were two signficant changes.

• First the packages are no longer extra and are always installed. Turning on Trusted Extensions is now just a matter of starting the labeling service: 'svcadm enable labeld'. This architecture change is discussed in PSARC/2006/254.
• Secondly the source code to what was previously called the "TLC" gate migrated into the ON gate. Most of this is in usr/src - ie it is open and under the CDDL license. However there is one part that ended up in usr/closed and that is labeld. The information on how to call labeld is open so in theory other distros could create their own replacement daemon.

- Darren

tags: opensolaris security solaris trusted