On Wed, 11 Apr 2012, Kalev Lember wrote:
This is the reason why I find it important to make the life as good as possible for the power users / developers / enthusiasts: when the they like using Fedora and developing software with Fedora, they're likely to also invite other people to try Fedora out. Which means more users, more developers, more people to spread the word.
While true, it is totally irrelevant to this discussion. I might as well say that SElinux is responsible for Fedora being a distribution without viruses and malware, unlike windows and mac, and so it is exactly the additional security and lack of anti-malware tools bringing your computer to a grinding halt that is the success of fedora you list above. When i was debugging why "passwd" was segfaulting, I installed gdb and guess what, it denied me ptrace, as it should! However, it even told me within gdb what to type to change the selinux boolean to continue with the gdb session, no different then gdb telling you how and which debuginfo packages to install. Once the automatic debugger helpers are working, I really hope ptrace will be denied again per default, as it would be a very workable good useful security addition to the system. Paul -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
