Forward looking to FC2 final and SELinux

Stephen Smalley sds at epoch.ncsc.mil
Tue Apr 6 19:25:43 UTC 2004


On Tue, 2004-04-06 at 14:59, Jesse Keating wrote:
> While SELinux is very cool, and very usefull in corner cases of edge 
> servers, it's not very cool for workstations, desktops, general 
> servers, etc...  

I'd encourage you to read the paper available from
http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/papers/inevit-abs.cfm.  Quite independent of
any argument about enabling/disabling SELinux by default for FC2, just a
case that flexible MAC is important even for the desktop. 

-- 
Stephen Smalley <sds at epoch.ncsc.mil>
National Security Agency





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