On Jan 4, 2008 4:57 PM, Jonathan Underwood jonathan.underwood@gmail.com wrote:
Because most of the time it's an selinux policy bug. Granted, not always, but often enough to make ones first thought be "oh, must be an selinux problem, Ill turn it off" or "must be an selinux polciy problem I'll run audit2allow and report a bug" - both of which are suggested EVERY TIME by setroubleshoot. A naive user is then led to think that this is the right thing to do in all instances.
I have to say, it appears that my experiences with SELinux have been much different from yours. I must admit however, that I do not run SELinux on my desktops, maybe that's the issue -- I don't connect my desktop directly to the internet either however, nor do I store that much data on them.
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I fear you're in the minority of users. Look over at the users forum/lists and see how many times you see people turning off selinux...
Have you considered the possibility of a large silent majority for whom it works most of the time and so need not complain? Not that valid complaints are a bad thing.