On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 15:39, |TF20|Shockwave wrote: > > > What I mean is, I ask "Why should I run selinux?" The answer > > > then seems to be "We don't know, but if you don't bad things > > > might happen to your system due to malicious programs." > > > > Look at it this way. People wear seat-belts in cars not because they expect > to get in an accident but as protection just in case they do. SELinux is > analogous to a seat-belt. It may not save your system in the event of a > breach, but not using it certainly won't guarantee that things will turn out > any better either. I'd consider it more like airbags. They are turning out to be a good thing overall but they have accidentally killed a few people too. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
