Re: F21 Self Contained Change: Security Policy In The Installer

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On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 03:56:47PM -0400, Eric H. Christensen wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 07:45:53PM +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > The failure mode of making the wrong choice regarding an encrypted 
> > partition or the default user being an administrator involves the system 
> > *continuing to work*. The failure mode of making the wrong choice 
> > regarding security policy is that things you expect to work mysteriously 
> > don't.
> 
> What exactly do you think would be done with one of these policies?  You seem to think that an incorrect choice will brick a system.

If an incorrect choice means that the software the user wants to run 
won't run, that's going to be a problem for the user. And we presumably 
expect that some software won't run, because otherwise we'd be enabling 
that security feature by default? A user who accidentally installs a 
profile that enables FIPS compliance is going to have a bad time, for 
instance.

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