Re: Why do I need SELinux?

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• Subject: Re: Why do I need SELinux?
• From: Rahul Sundaram <rahulsundaram@xxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2005 22:49:51 +0530
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• Reply-to: Rahul Sundaram <rahulsundaram@xxxxxxxxx>, For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>

Hi

> Any program that uses root level access needs SELinux.  I run httpd as
> apache:apache with no access to sudo and apache:apache has only access
> to the httpd directories.

SELinux has much more flexible control and protection over simple file
permissions. please read
http://www.redhat.com/magazine/001nov04/features/selinux/


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Regards,
Rahul Sundaram

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