On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 15:44 -0700, green bean wrote: > Yesterday i tried Fedora 9, with the KDE desktop, and SEL enabled by > default. I found it easy to use, the KDE desktop being no more > restrictive > than it is in Ubuntu. I am only required to authenticate as root to do > an install such as Firefox. This also is exactly like in Ubuntu 7 or > 8. > One thing i think is a security weakness: when i authenticate as root, > there is a box, "remember this authentication." BUT even weaker, > is a box which can be checked which says: "remember this > authentication for all future sessions." That is an insecure option. > Ubuntu is apparently more secure in not allowing any such option! > Windows has a similar option, but this is SEL and shouldnt allow it, imho. This doesn't have anything to do with SELinux. Please read the FAQs. -- Stephen Smalley National Security Agency -- This message was distributed to subscribers of the selinux mailing list. If you no longer wish to subscribe, send mail to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the words "unsubscribe selinux" without quotes as the message.
