[wplug] Who benefits from SELinux?

[Greg Akins]

On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 4:08 PM, Matthew Zwier <mczwier at gmail.com> wrote:
> Never saw the need for it on top of hardened Gentoo for a server.  May
> be different for a machine with a large number of users, though, like
> a cluster head node.
>

Can anyone explain what exactly SELinux is?  I always thought it was a
configuration standard and a set of tools.   As such, I would have
thought that having SELinux installed might be synonymous to a
"hardened" system.


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