SELinux Attack!

[Arthur Pemberton]

On 10/12/07, Karl Larsen <k5di at zianet.com> wrote:
> Jonathan Underwood wrote:
> > On 12/10/2007, Karl Larsen <k5di at zianet.com> wrote:
> >
> >> The Attack occurred 2 days AFTER I turned SELinux from off to passive
> >> mode. The computer is in almost unusable shape.
> >>
> >>     If you want to see anything let me know. I will send it. I am going
> >> to see what dmesg has to say.
> >>
> >
> > What precisely is the problem? All you have conveyed so far is:
> >
> > a) You're getting the ip6tables error message on boot indicating that
> > protocol 51 is unmatched (this is nothing serious).
> >
> > b) Cups failed to start
> >
> > c) Thunderbird took a long time to load.
> >
> > And for some reason, you think SElinux is at the heart of the
> > troubles, but you haven't yet explained what made you reach that
> > conclusion. You need to be much more precise in describing your
> > problem if you want people to help you.
> >
> > Is the problem simply that your machine is exhibiting a high load and
> > so is very slow?
> >
> >
> Yes the ONLY problem is that a F7 that was working just fine all by
> itself found it can not locate cups. After 10 minutes it does find cups
> but then it can't find sendmail for around 5 minutes. Then it comes up
> very slow and when clear up into xwindows it still doesn't all work.
> When it got to a point I could operate the SELinux control panels I
> tried to turn SELinux off. To see what happens. Well just now looking at
> dmesg the dam SELinux is not turned off! So what is the best way to make
> sure this thing is turned off?

1. fix your tone
2. if you're going to accuse SELinux, give some evidence
3. use system-config-securitylevel to turn SELinux off
4. read the replies you receive... you've already been told how to turn it off


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