SELinux

Alan Cox alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Thu Jan 20 10:12:17 UTC 2011


> Additionally, I note that quite a bit of the bandwidth on the Fedora
> and CentOS echoes relate to SELinux making ordinary people doing
> ordinary things difficult. It's a complex subsystem, and I don't need

So do file permissions, and people had the same moans about those when
they came from DOS. Quite funny really.

> Anyway, it's enough simply to say that I don't want it, for whatever
> reasons, and so I'm on my way not to using any Linux distro which
> forces it upon me.

Of course you could just boot with selinux disabled, it does have a boot
option, but if you want to do it the hard way don't let anyone stop you.

Alan


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