Why do I need SELinux?

Rahul Sundaram rahulsundaram at gmail.com
Sun Feb 20 17:11:42 UTC 2005


Hi

> David and Rahul:
> 
> Do you allow 'home' user access through httpd or ftpd?  Then you should
> consider Security Enhanced Linux (SELinux).  If you have locked down
> your system or do not offer any of the 'standard' services, you don't.


oh please. I was discussing about the NEED of SELinux for everyone

David, You havent understood the selinux protection for apache. MAC
based security like SELinux offers much more than you can possibly
have with protection through file permissions.


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Regards,
Rahul Sundaram




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