SELinux
Kostas Sfakiotakis
kostassf at cha.forthnet.gr
Fri Jan 21 16:03:20 UTC 2011
On 21/01/2011 07:02 πμ, James McKenzie wrote:
> On 1/20/11 2:30 PM, Kostas Sfakiotakis wrote:
> As Tim said: You are not only affecting yourself but by default
> every other user of the Internet if you get infected with a
> virus/worm/trojan horse/spyware.
As i wrote to Tim a minute ago did i read an IF over there ???
Since as u say it´s IF and WHEN i get infected then i will
cause problems to others.
> SELinux is designed to prevent that level of stupidity.
>Sorry, but you have to read through several RFCs to understand
>your ability to screw things up royally when you are on
> the Information Superhighway. Please take time and read RFC 1087.
> It basically spells out YOUR responsibilities when driving there.
I would gladly take some pointers . As for RFC 1087 since i don´t
think that i have a local copy of it but i guess rfc-editor has .
I will get a copy of it in a couple of hours since now i have to run to
work .
> How would you feel if failure to use SELinux infects hundreds
> if not thousands of systems with a virus?
Not very well i guess .
> How would you feel if not using SELinux saves your work from being
> inadvertently destroyed?
Well i never stopped using SELinux , just in case something that
SELinux was doing something good and i didn´t have an idea about it .
For this particular subject that I opened the thread in the first place
besides disabling execstack with the information provided in this very
thread ( on all system libraries , not just those of Acrobat Reader ) i
just
updated my computer since that would probably resolve the issue ( well
that was suggested and it actually resolved the problem ) . Don´t
take me wrong if i was aware of all the RFCs that u mention above i would
gladly take time and read them . But since my normal work doesn´t have to
do with RFC studying i am not doing it . Do also consider that if am
unaware
that something is out there then am not going to prevent myself from
running into it .
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