Forward looking to FC2 final and SELinux

Warren Togami wtogami at redhat.com
Thu Apr 8 21:51:25 UTC 2004


Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> On Apr  8, 2004, Jesse Keating <jkeating at j2solutions.net> wrote:
> 
> 
>>What more do we gain by having permissive on instead of SELinux 
>>completely off?
> 
> 
> file contexts are set correctly to some extent (aren't they?), so
> switching to enforcing mode would be a shorter, not longer path.
> 

However permissive has most of the performance overhead, but none of the 
security benefit of enforcing, right?  I personally think the user 
should choose between off or on, and endure the lengthy process if they 
want to transition from off to on.

Warren





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