How best get rid of SELinux?

Gene Heskett gene.heskett at verizon.net
Fri Sep 21 17:10:26 UTC 2007


On Friday 21 September 2007, William Hooper wrote:
>Timothy Murphy wrote:
>> Arthur Pemberton wrote:
>>> Selinux is another layer of security, it isn't a replacement of any
>>> security layers, I see no reason why anyone feels such apparently
>>> hostility to this piece of technology.
>>
>> While I'm not hostile to SELinux,
>> I'm also not convinced it actually gives any protection in the real world.
>>  I've never seen anyone say, "Thank God I was running SELinux,
>> or I would have been in a mess".
>
>Mambo Exploit Blocked by SELinux
>http://interactive.linuxjournal.com/article/9176
>
Interesting link, which prompted me to run chkrootkit -q here, which output 
what appears to be a typu on my part:
Searching for anomalies in shell history files... Warning: `' is linked to 
another file

If I could find it, I'd kill it, but howinhell does one find that?

Thanks William.

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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