Advanced Operating Systems Project - Kernel Level Reference Monitor

Getting started

Caution

To clone the repository and also the submodule run:

git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/martinalupini/progetto-SOA

After cloning the repository, open a terminal in the directory Progetto-SOA/. Execute the script load.sh as root user to mount the module.

./load.sh

After mounting the module, the monitor will be ON. At startup the monitor does not have paths to protect. The default password is changeme.

In the directory user/ you can find pieces of code for testing. After typing make all there will be different executables:

user is purely demonstrative. I suggest to run it as first because it shows some of the reference monitor APIs, but is not mandatory. The other executable are made to simulate shell commands.
change_pass can be used to change the passsword. It takes as arguents the new password and the old password.
recon changes the monitor status to REC-ON. It takes as argument the password.
recoff changes the monitor status to REC-OFF. It takes as argument the password.
start_monitor changes the monitor status to ON. It takes as argument the password.
stop_monitor changes the monitor status to OFF. It takes as argument the password.
add_path adds the path specified as argument to the reference monitor. The path can be absolute or relative. The other argument taken is the password.
rm_path removes the path specified as argument to the reference monitor. The path can be absolute or relative. The other argument taken is the password.

In the directory test/ there is some code to stress out the module and see how it behaves.

To remove the module execute as root user in the directory Progetto-SOA/:

make clean