25 Jan
2016
25 Jan
'16
9:40 p.m.
Tim:
SELinux in permissive mode is *not* secure. You're using the computer in an insecure mode, and all SELinux is doing is logging the things that it would have stopped.
Ian Malone:
I have actually once seen permissive mode preventing login, IIRC this was something to do with PackageKit doing its own context based checks.
Yes, though that's a fault condition. Permissive mode isn't supposed to stop anything.
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[tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp
Linux 3.9.10-100.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Sun Jul 14 01:31:27 UTC 2013 x86_64
Boilerplate: All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is
no point trying to privately email me, I only get to see the messages
posted to the mailing list.
Lucky for you I typed this, you'd never be able to read my handwriting.