On Sun, 2006-04-02 at 03:05 +0100, Leon wrote: > Thank you Craig and Kam. However selinux will disable flash plugin for > firefox, prevent mplayer from playing .mkv files, etc. All of these > are quite essential for desktop users. ---- The point of security is to stop all non approved actions. If you install the flash plugin and the flash plugin doesn't provide security contexts for its use, then you will have to fix that issue...I believe the answers to flash plugin problems with SELinux are asily solvable. I don't know anything about mplayer issues with SELinux but I would assume that if a user posts the errors caused by using mplayer as you suggest, he will find out that a fix is again a relatively simple process. If you wish to disable SELinux because you don't have the enthusiasm for learning a technology that is incorporated as a layer of security for your protection, you would not be the first or the last to do so, but please recognize that what you are doing is depriving your system of a layer of security because you have found means to justify not learning how to live with it. Some effort has been spent to educate and provide better tools for the system user - you may wish to start here... http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SELinux or of course, disable it, be done with it and just remember, the next time you tell your friends that Linux is more secure than Windows...that you have opted out of some of those security layers. Craig
