SELinux on single-user box?

[Phillip T. George]

Ben Steeves wrote:

>Hi Folks,
>
>I'm not trying to start a flamewar or anything, this is an innocent question:  
>
>Is there any compelling reason to run SELinux on a home system that is
>mainly "single-user" if you are running a well-configured firewall
>with almost all services turned off or filtered?
>
>I notice a lot of posts (the NVidia driver one most recently) that
>report problems going away when SELinux is disabled.  I don't enable
>it on my home machine for this very reason.
>
>  
>
Ben,

SELinux is not necessary on ANY configuration.  We've lived without it 
before :)  It is highly recommended, because its ANOTHER level of 
security, but if its just a box at home, I wouldn't worry about it so much.

-Phillip