-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Claude Jones wrote: > On Sat January 20 2007 5:04 pm, David Boles wrote: >> Have a nice day. > I'm sorry that you're so anxious to score points. That's the > tone, even without the expletives, of this last post. But I'll > try one more reply in kind to several of the issues you raised. > > While the article about Windows turned out to be old, there have > been some links posted about that issue in this debate - did you > read those? There's been no definitive resolution of the > original questions that were raised at the time in that article. > > I asked a simple question, remember? It didn't > involve "speculation or worry" - it was a question. > > I'm afraid you're stilling glossing over several contributions to > the discussion by list members known for their expertise in > security matters - perhaps you don't know who they are. > > And finally, you assume I started off knowing nothing about > Selinux. Quite the contrary - I even made the point along the > way that I use Selinux and have posted bug reports about it. > I've spent considerable time on the web reading about Selinux - > here's a couple of bookmarks for you in case you haven't come > across them: > > http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/ > http://selinux.sourceforge.net/resources.php3 This is twice that you have said "to score points". I really have no idea what that means. "to score points"? With who? For what purpose? I was actually fortunate enough to miss a great deal of this thread. Aren't filters wonderful? But I did go back some in the archive and I did not anything of real value there. Other than the information provided by the person from the NSA. As simply as it can be said. SElinux is supposed to stop unauthorized access to you HD and file system. Which is one, if not the, major problems with the Windows system. In other words that Barbie screensaver that your daughter downloaded would not be able to format your HD. Or turn your computer into a zombie spambot. What Fedora, and others distrobutions, are trying to do it to stop this type of action before it starts instead of after. Now if you don't want that protection, which will be needed one day sooner or later, then by all means set SElunx to disabled. Turn off the protection. Selinux is a kernel patch and a list of rules of what to protect and how. With SElinux disabled the rules won't get inforced and 'things' can do as they please with your HD and file system. - -- David -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (MingW32) iD8DBQFFsqBDAO0wNI1X4QERArnxAKDOFYaVNiaor7mFvXl2J8wp89kolwCfbOiS xDerWRRm5cr04raU1+o7i94= =3IH/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
