No more selinux-policy-*-sources
Andrew Haley
aph at redhat.com
Tue Mar 14 16:54:07 UTC 2006
Stephen J. Smoogen writes:
>
> To be honest, we have found that the following people turn off SeLinux
> for the following reasons:
>
> 1) They were told that xyz would be fixed by turning off SeLinux. In
> most cases, they the problem with xyz was really a config issue that
> they then fix by hand, but will swear that turning off selinux somehow
> fixed things. It is similar to problems back in the Red Hat Linux 5.0
> days where any problem with the system was fixed with a static
> compiled kernel or application.
>
> 2) They have installed some super nifty kernel module (panassas) or
> application that selinux (and 90% of the rest of the kernel) does not
> agree with.
>
> 3) They found a legitimate problem with selinux but did not have the
> tools to debug it or had the training needed to fix it.
>
> 4) They turn it off because it is outside their experience or religous
> (Unix) convictions.
5) They don't want enhanced security. I suspect this is a sizable
number of people.
Andrew.
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