SElinux

[Craig White]

On Sun, 2006-04-02 at 19:43 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-04-02 at 18:23, Craig White wrote:
> 
> > All of the discussion about gui
> > tools is self serving attempts to provide a smoke screen to the basic
> > issue...that the sysadmin doesn't want to commit the time and energy to
> > learning how to deal with it. The logical extension that I add to that
> > is this unwilling system admin is not professional and will take the
> > easy road, much like failure to implement password policies discussed a
> > few days ago, etc. as this behavior is endemic and not likely reserved
> > to just selinux.
> 
> Or, an equally valid view is that the sysadmin in question has
> learned from experience that every new-and-different extension
> to the basic unix system promoted by one or a few vendors has
> historically not turned out to be necessary and sometimes
> introduced new problems.  A wait-and-see attitude isn't such
> a bad thing.  When it is proven, you might expect all distributions
> to ship it.
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Of course the only people who are making these types of arguments are
those that haven't invested the time to figure it out. Where are the
knowledgeable admins that have taken the time to understand SELinux and
come to the conclusion that it is not of sufficient value to implement?

Quoting John Lennon...
"Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans."

Craig