Re: SELinux - way of the future or good idea but !!!

[Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 12/8/2010 11:38 AM, Lamar Owen wrote:
>
>> But your question was what to do if you choose to ignore the simple and
>> available tools - things available and well understood on many platforms.
>
> VM = complex.  Not to mention proprietary (for all but KVM) and resource-wasteful.
> Switch User = inconvenient to the extreme, and disruptive of normal workflow.
>
> I've done both, and neither are workable solutions for the majority of users, especially on the desktop.  Both are more complex than SELinux *could* be, with some effort.

*And* standards for the locations every application is permitted to access.

> Sounds like a budding standard to me, and something worth learning.

Standards committees have their ways of breaking all previous existing 
implementations with their final decrees.  Let me know when they are 
finished.

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   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx

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