what is SELinux?

James Morris jmorris at redhat.com
Sat Mar 6 15:17:10 UTC 2004


On 6 Mar 2004, Bernd Kauling wrote:

> Hi everyone,
> 
> I don't know, if i am the first one with a question here (i don't hope
> so). I read an announcement of this list in the fedora-Mailinglist.
> So i got subscribed here :)
> 
> But what the heck is SELinux?
> 

Security Enhanced Linux, http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/

It's been merged into the 2.6 kernel, and Fedora is one of the 
distributions which is integrating it into the OS.


- James
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James Morris
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