How best (BUT WHY) get rid of SELinux?
Andrew Kelly
akelly at corisweb.org
Tue Sep 25 13:00:00 UTC 2007
On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 05:54 -0700, Paul Shaffer wrote:
> The whole premise of this thead is just absolutely ridiculous. A
> naive user has an issue of some sort, immediately throws the baby out
> with the bath and then every other uninformed Linux using imbecile on
> this list joins in the stupidity.
>
> Does anybody here really believe the NSA spent how many years (?) and
> untold millions of dollars developing the technology for no good
> reason? Amazing, just amazing. Shocked? Maybe. Disappointed? Yes.
> Surprised? No.
A government agency unwisely spending money? Or wasting time? No, of
course not. Unheard of.
> GNUGravity <no-reply-gw at fcp.surfsite.org> wrote:
> ...interesting...
>
> I am rather shocked to see such an advanced community not
> reaping the benefits of SE Linux on Fedora/Red Hat. It's the
> reason I hesitate to use other distributions for mission
> critical applications within my organization.
>
> With that said, I concede that it does require configuration.
> What works well for me is to suspend the SELinux service,
> perform the configuration, test and apply the config and then
> turn SELinux back on. From there, open the ports and configure
> as needed. There is an excellent O'Reilly book "SELinux NSA's
> Open Source Security Enhanced Linux" that will assist in
> explaining configuration options and debugging. There's always
> this forum and FedoraForums for assistance.
>
> I value both my and my client's data. To me, it's worth the
> time and effort taken to implement security measures. I don't
> recommend turning it off and specifically not for
> organizational use. If you want to kill it on your desktop,
> that's up to you.
>
> Best of luck to all ;)
>
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