Re: Request to re-add option to disable SELinux

[Alan Cox <alan redhat com>]

On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 04:22:21PM -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 16:10 -0400, Jon Masters wrote:
> > 
> > But there are numerous other justifications I could give, including my
> > personal belief that it's absolutely nuts to thrust SE Linux upon
> > unsuspecting Desktop users (who don't know what it is anyway) without
> > giving them the choice to turn it off.
> 
> If they don't know what it is, how are they supposed to decide to shut
> it off or not?

Knowing what it is isn't sufficient - they must know enough to make a meaningful
risk analysis fo the decision. Very few users I suspect are in that position.