[wplug] Who benefits from SELinux?

[Brian Makin]

s e linex is really designed for high security environments with much
stricter requirements than anything you would have at home.

think of government installations where complete traceability and
accountability is required
On Apr 10, 2012 4:24 PM, "Rick Reynolds" <rick at rickandviv.net> wrote:

> 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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