On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 06:43:36PM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > David Jansen wrote: >> How secure is a current Fedora (9) system without SELinux? Of course it >> is less secure than the same system with SELinux enabled, but is it >> still at the same level of security as any other Linux distribution that >> doesn't come with SELinux enabled? or are there packages that depend on >> SELinux for their security, eg services that run as root on Fedora in >> stead of as an unpriviledged user, assuming that SELinux takes care of >> limiting root to what the service is supposed to do? > > SELinux is a additional security layer above and beyond the regular > security features. Nothing in Fedora would solely rely on SELinux to > provide the basic security. > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Security/Features > > Rahul Thanks for the quick and useful answer! David -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
