How best get rid of SELinux?

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Mon Sep 24 21:00:26 UTC 2007


Mike McCarty wrote:
> Bruno Wolff III wrote:
>> On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 05:44:20 -0600,
>>   Karl Larsen <k5di at zianet.com> 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.
>>
>>
>> SELinux does not work like an anti virus program.
> 
> It works very much like FluShot+ for MSDOS did.

An antivirus program of any sort has pretty much nothing in common with 
Mandatory Access Control. I am not sure what sort of relationship you 
see in between them.

Rahul




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