SELinux survey (was RE: Stupid F7 boot loop)

Andrew Kelly akelly at corisweb.org
Thu Aug 30 09:37:08 UTC 2007


On Thu, 2007-08-30 at 14:50 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Andrew Kelly wrote:
> 
> > 
> > At any rate, let's assume that SELinux is mature and ripe, that it
> > interferes with nothing and there are no more issues with updates and
> > whatnot. It's landed, and can be deployed without worry.
> > What exactly do I gain by doing it? What have I protected myself from?
> 
> If you understand what SELinux is, the gain is immediately obvious. Here 
> is a recent article
> 
> http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2007/05/04/whats-new-in-selinux-for-red-hat-enterprise-linux-5/
> 
> Rahul

Mea Culpa, Rahul.

Thanks for the pointer, much appreciated.

Andy




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