Re: selinux eradicator?

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Mike McCarty wrote:
Jim Cornette wrote:
Mike McCarty wrote:


A machine running current SELinux implementation is provably
less secure in some senses than one which is not.


 From a very recent security update for httpd.

Update Information:

The Apache HTTP Server did not verify that a process was an

[snip]

And I gave a few examples where running SELinux caused
the machine to be more vulnerable.

[snip]

Just a passing example.

Indeed. Just as passing as the ones I gave. Read what I
wrote above. I put in "in some senses" for a reason.

I'll have to check out the info related to vulnerabilities. SELinux seems to be more of a system for denials rather than privilege escalation.


SELinux improves security in some senses, and reduces it
in some other senses. It also unarguably makes administration
of a machine more complex and involved. Whether the extra
benefit be worth the extra complexity and vulnerabilites
should be a personal decision at present.

No doubt the choice should be up to the person responsible for running the computer.

Mike


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