How secure is Fedora without SELinux ?

[David Jansen]

On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 06:43:36PM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> 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

Thanks for the quick and useful answer!

David