On Thursday 07 June 2007, Matthew J. Roth wrote: >There was recently an article about SELinux on Slashdot. The comments >contain some useful ideas, including enabling SELinux in permissive >mode. In permissive mode, security violations are logged but not >enforced. This allows you to configure SELinux for your system prior to >setting it to enforcing mode, which is a good alternative to simply >disabling it as soon as it causes a problem. > >Red Hat Boosts SELinux With RHEL 5 ><http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/06/007218> > >Matthew Roth >InterMedia Marketing Solutions >Software Engineer and Systems Developer Unforch, as huge numbers of us have found, "permissive" isn't. I just had to turn it off in the grub command line before the wifi in my lappy with a fresh F7 install would allow the transmitter to make a peep. "Permissive" is an oxymoron the users don't need. Will it get re-enabled here? Maybe on the third tuesday of the 7th week of august. What remaining life I have (I'm 72 now) is far too valuable to me to spend it screwing with a broken framework such as selinux seems to be. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Internet outage
