Re: up2date, Large Medium and small updates....

[Tom Mitchell <mitch48 yahoo com>]

On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 03:27:52AM -0500, Richard Hally wrote:

> Fwiw, in grub I set up duplicate sections for a permissive kernel and an
> enforcing kernel using ENFORCING on the title line and enforcing=1 on the
> kernel line.
> 
> Richard Hally
> 
> <Snip>
> > Also I have taken to adding an alternate boot section  in
> > /boot/grub/grub.conf.  Is this useful, useless, sane, silly,
> > underkill, overkill.  Thus...:
> 
> Grub is really good for allowing you to edit the kernel command line before
> booting it.  So if you have problems you can always tell it to boot the
> kernel with selinux=0 appended even if that is not in your grub.conf.
> 
> If you accidentally boot a non-SE kernel then /etc/mtab and a few other
> files  will get the wrong label, which will be really annoying for you.  We are
> working on these issues, but in the mean-time you probably don't want to
> make  it too easy to accidentally boot a non-SE kernel.

Good to know.... 

I like the enforcing difference... I will move that way.
Setting enforcing to true is the next thing on my list.

Thank to all.

Later,
tom



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