How secure is Fedora without SELinux ?

[Rahul Sundaram]

David Jansen wrote:
> How secure is a current Fedora (9) system without SELinux? Of course it
> is less secure than the same system with SELinux enabled, but is it
> still at the same level of security as any other Linux distribution that
> doesn't come with SELinux enabled? or are there packages that depend on
> SELinux for their security, eg services that run as root on Fedora in
> stead of as an unpriviledged user, assuming that SELinux takes care of
> limiting root to what the service is supposed to do?

SELinux is a additional security layer above and beyond the regular 
security features. Nothing in Fedora would solely rely on SELinux to 
provide the basic security.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Security/Features

Rahul