SELinux removed from desktop cd spin?

Valent Turkovic valent.turkovic at gmail.com
Thu Jan 17 14:09:29 UTC 2008


Vladimir N Kosovac wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 08:19 +0100, Valent Turkovic wrote:
>> Jeff Spaleta wrote:
>>> On Jan 16, 2008 12:35 PM, Valent Turkovic <valent.turkovic at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> What is your target audience with SELinux?
>>> Everyone who runs a computer that takes input from an external source,
>>> whether that be floppies, or a network connection, or a bluetooth
>>> keyboard.  Security matters... it doesn't matter if you are a desktop
>>> user or not... security matters.  If we are doing a good enough job at
>>> policy writing and management then we fix the policies.
>> Will fedora include virus scanners? If not why?
>>
> yum search clamav

I ment by default like SELinux.

> I think you need to go a step (or two) back and re-read what people are
> saying about the reasoning behind SElinux enforcing by default.
> 
> It is a good thing and a positive shift in the right direction. It does
> not cause many problems anymore but if, in some cases, it does,
> everybody is free to turn it off if not willing to help developers to
> make it better by filing a bug. You can disable it, as you know, at
> install time as well.
> 
> Comparing Fedora to other distributions is meaningless. Every distro has
> its own reasons to package stuff as they do. Fedora is not in a business

I'm not comparing Fedora distro as a hole! Why doesn't nobody get the 
point?!? I'm just talking about Fedora Destop spin.


Valent.




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