On Fri, 2006-11-17 at 20:27 -0500, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Sat, 18 Nov 2006 00:46:48 +0000 > "Ian Malone" <ibmalone@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > I'm sure you're right, but I have no idea even what I'm allowing > > them to do, and very little incentive to invest the time in SELinux > > to find out how to make the decision. (And I'm sure that path > > ends up with me trying to security audit every package on my > > home machine which would be craziness.) > > That's why I use the must simpler approach of disabling selinux > when I install and for good measure adding selinux=0 to the > kernel boot options :-). ---- when OP actually shows interest in learning, there seems to be little value provided to telling him just to shut it off - especially when you've added two methods (i.e. redundant, unnecessary). You only need to change /etc/selinux/config (see the file) or use the 'system-config-securitylevel' which will accomplish the same task to shut SELinux off. I will attempt to answer the OP's question directly though. Craig
