How best get rid of SELinux?

[Karl Larsen]

Craig White wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 12:54 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
>   
>> On Friday 21 September 2007, Mike McCarty wrote:
>>     
>>> Karl Larsen wrote:
>>>       
>>>>    This whole thing reads to me that SELinux is the linux version of
>>>> Norton or Avguard  to Windows. It will capture and keep the offending
>>>> file from doing it's worst.
>>>>
>>>>    My friends with Windows cuss both software because it makes a mess
>>>> out of doing normal things like installing new software.
>>>>
>>>>    There are very few Linux users. There are millions of Windows users.
>>>> A guy writing a virus will write it for Windows every time! Now days
>>>> they are spending time in prison.
>>>>
>>>>    So I decided to turn off SELinux even though it was not the thing to
>>>> do according to the loader. I am glad I did so. I don't need the Norton
>>>> problem on my F7.
>>>>         
>>> Well put. It is a solution to a non-problem. It creates more
>>> admin worries than it solves.
>>>
>>> To put it another way: Where is the vast audience of Linux
>>> users who have been clamoring for improvements to security
>>> like those provided by SELinux?
>>>
>>> There is an audience of Linux users who are requesting that
>>> it be removed.
>>>
>>>       
>> +1
>>     
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> this is one of the reasons it won't ever happen...
>
> http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/06/15/red-hat-linux-gets-top-government-security-rating_1.html
>
> feel free to keep posting your uninformed opinions though and I note
> that this is clearly one circle where your opinions don't count.
>
>   
    Well I have as much right to my fully developed position on this 
list as you have your "gut feeling". I say it is not at all likely that 
a virus will be written for Linux. What do you say to that? You think it 
is possible so it needs to be fixed.

    We have a half wit President in Bush and I can't get him out of 
office. I don't loose sleep or write 50 messages. I know what I can not 
change.



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	Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
	Linux User
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