[wplug] Who benefits from SELinux?

[Rick Reynolds]

I'll just add a "me neither" vote - I've always turned it off as well.  Although all of my Linux admin experience has been on servers behind a corporate firewall and/or in my home.

Thanks,
Rick Reynolds
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On Apr 10, 2012, at 4:14 PM, Greg Akins wrote:

> 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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