How best get rid of SELinux?

David Boles dgboles at gmail.com
Fri Sep 21 15:15:07 UTC 2007


on 9/21/2007 10:56 AM, Mike McCarty wrote:
> Karl Larsen wrote:
>>    This whole thing reads to me that SELinux is the linux version of 
>> Norton or Avguard  to Windows. It will capture and keep the offending 
>> file from doing it's worst.
>>
>>    My friends with Windows cuss both software because it makes a mess 
>> out of doing normal things like installing new software.
>>
>>    There are very few Linux users. There are millions of Windows users. 
>> A guy writing a virus will write it for Windows every time! Now days 
>> they are spending time in prison.
>>
>>    So I decided to turn off SELinux even though it was not the thing to 
>> do according to the loader. I am glad I did so. I don't need the Norton 
>> problem on my F7.
> 
> Well put. It is a solution to a non-problem. It creates more
> admin worries than it solves.
> 
> To put it another way: Where is the vast audience of Linux
> users who have been clamoring for improvements to security
> like those provided by SELinux?
> 
> There is an audience of Linux users who are requesting that
> it be removed.
> 
> Thoughtful "Hmm".


Since you are reading a 'help' list for people who have problems, or
think that they have, why would expect users to be writing that
'everything is beautiful'?

When was the last time that you told the kid behind the counter 'that was
a really great hamburger that you sold me the last time'?  ;-)
-- 

  David


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