2005/6/15, Ben Steeves <ben.steeves@xxxxxxxxx>: > Hi Folks, > > I'm not trying to start a flamewar or anything, this is an innocent question: > > Is there any compelling reason to run SELinux on a home system that is > mainly "single-user" if you are running a well-configured firewall Yes because a firewall doesent protect you from e.g. a potential bug in your webbrowser that leads to remote code execution ;) Why turn security features off? if you have problems rather report it to bugzilla ;) (solutions vs workarounds) > with almost all services turned off or filtered? > > I notice a lot of posts (the NVidia driver one most recently) that > report problems going away when SELinux is disabled. I don't enable > it on my home machine for this very reason. i have a 64 bit box with gforce 6200 pcie and cant confirm the problem. > > -- > Ben Steeves _ bcs@xxxxxxxxxx > The ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) ben.steeves@xxxxxxxxx > against HTML e-mail X GPG ID: 0xB3EBF1D9 > http://www.metacon.ca/bcs / \ Yahoo Messenger: ben_steeves > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >
