Why do I need SELinux?

Rahul Sundaram rahulsundaram at gmail.com
Mon Feb 21 13:29:43 UTC 2005


On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 13:25:40 +0000, James Wilkinson
<james at westexe.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> Timothy Murphy wrote:
> > But does _everyone_ need SELinux?
> > I'm willing to be convinced, but I haven't been yet.
> >
> > I think I am probably a typical home user,
> > perhaps with a bit more equipment than normal.
> 
> With the current implementation, you may have a point.
> 
> http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/selinux-faq-fc3/index.html#id2764702
> says that:
> 
> >  Currently, the list of daemons is dhcpd, httpd (apache.te), named,
> >  nscd, ntpd, portmap, snmpd, squid, and syslogd
> 
> Home users probably shouldn't be running httpd, 

did you know that gnome user share uses apache webdav to share files?

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Regards,
Rahul Sundaram




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