# Migrate from PodSecurityPolicy to the Built-In PodSecurity Admission Controller — 2.b. Eliminate options not covered by the Pod Security Standards

> There are several fields in PodSecurityPolicy that are not covered by the Pod Security Standards.

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## Knowledge

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There are several fields in PodSecurityPolicy that are not covered by the Pod Security Standards. If you must enforce these options, you will need to supplement Pod Security Admission with an admission webhook, which is outside the scope of this guide.

First, you can remove the purely validating fields that the Pod Security Standards do not cover. These fields (also listed in the Mapping PodSecurityPolicies to Pod Security Standards reference with "no opinion") are

.spec.allowedHostPaths .spec.allowedFlexVolumes .spec.allowedCSIDrivers .spec.forbiddenSysctls .spec.runtimeClass

You can also remove the following fields, that are related to POSIX / UNIX group controls.

If any of these use the MustRunAs strategy they may be mutating! Removing these could result in workloads not setting the required groups, and cause problems. See Rollout the updated policies below for advice on how to roll these changes out safely.

.spec.runAsGroup .spec.supplementalGroups .spec.fsGroup

The remaining mutating fields are required to properly support the Pod Security Standards, and will need to be handled on a case-by-case basis later

.spec.requiredDropCapabilities - Required to drop ALL for the Restricted profile. .spec.seLinux - (Only mutating with the MustRunAs rule) required to enforce the SELinux requirements of the Baseline &amp; Restricted profiles. .spec.runAsUser - (Non-mutating with the RunAsAny rule) required to enforce RunAsNonRoot for the Restricted profile. .spec.allowPrivilegeEscalation - (Only mutating if set to false) required for the Restricted profile.

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