Re: SELinux

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I've been a security wonk for many years, and the problem I have with  
SeLinux is that when it makes a decision I disagree with, it's like
pulling teeth to change it's mind.

So I sometimes just turn it off

Sigh


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On Aug 31, 2010, at 11:13 AM, Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> place. I quote one more from the same thread. This one is from Linus:
>>
>>     "I find SELinux to be so irrelevant to my usage that I don't use
>>      it at all"
>>
>> http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/10/2/353
>
> Linus is not exactly famous for his ability to understand security
> concepts. I find the fact your argument is produced by google and
> cut/paste rather than technical material ... enlightening
>
> But hey if Linus jumped down a volcano would you follow ?
>
> There *are* cases where you want SELinux off - isolated high  
> performance
> computing clusters for example where you want the absolute minimal
> overhead but they also usually turn off other junk Fedora inflicts on
> people by default which is far more pointless - like LVM (unless you  
> are
> doing crypted fs stuff)
>
> Alan
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