F21 Self Contained Change: Security Policy In The Installer

Matthew Garrett mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org
Fri Mar 14 18:53:42 UTC 2014


On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 02:51:10PM -0400, Steve Grubb wrote:
> On Friday, March 14, 2014 03:00:20 PM Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > If there's a default policy that would make sense for most workstation 
> > users, we should just make that the default.
> 
> Right now there is just one policy. In there future there could be several. I 
> could see a server specific, workstation specific, virt specific, PCI, USGCB, 
> STIG, common criteria, etc.

Having separate server, workstation and cloud products means we can 
apply separate defaults without requiring user interaction. Beyond that, 
why would an end user want to choose common criteria during an 
interactive install? Isn't that something that should be imposed on them 
by their local admin?

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org


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