SELinux removed from desktop cd spin?

Valent Turkovic valent.turkovic at gmail.com
Thu Jan 17 09:52:23 UTC 2008


Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> On Jan 17, 2008 1:45 AM, Valent Turkovic <valent.turkovic at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Arthur Pemberton wrote:
>>> So have those proposing the remove of SELinux come to the conclusion
>>> that the average Fedora user is too stupid to click (2,3 clicks?)
>>> SELinux to disabled and be done with it? Maybe even on firstboot?
>>>
>> Do you actually believe that average (less than year of linux
>> experience) fedora user knows about and understands SELinux?
> 
> 
> I would like to believe that they can maneuver a mouse to choose
> disable from a drop down menu. We are not talking logging in as root
> and running command here.

In order to do that people first need to to know what SELinux actually 
does. I don't believe that users who aren't a bit experienced with linux 
have a clue what SELinux is and what it does, except pops up some 
strange "AVC Denial" messages.

Valent.




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