Cargo Cult sysadmining

Joe Zeff joe at zeff.us
Mon Aug 6 20:53:04 UTC 2012


On 08/06/2012 01:40 PM, Ian Malone wrote:
> Well, the thing is that SELinux often has effects that aren't
> particularly obvious. After upgrading to F15 I found I couldn't log in
> without disabling SELinux. At that point you can either try and fix
> the problem or ignore it and carry on with SELinux disabled forever,
> in doing the latter you haven't understood what's wrong or what other
> problems might be involved.

Did you try putting it in permissive mode to see if you got any alerts? 
  Yes, I know that this is drifting off-topic, but it's also discussing 
the difference between what I'm objecting to and doing something that 
might eventually let you fix what's wrong.


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