On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 00:57 -0400, David Boles wrote: <snip> > Wow Gene. I did not mean to set you off. SELinux is designed to help *you* > protect your Linux system from one of the major flaws in Windows. Allowing > unknown, bad, executables from doing strange things on your system without > your permission or, at times, without your knowledge of it happening. > > If you chose to turn this protection off that is most certainly your > right. It is your system. If you don't feel that the protection is > valuable then screw it. > > But when that smiling hacker from somewhere finally finally decides that > there are enough Linux users that think like Windows users he will write > that program that will wipe out your milling program. > > Honest Gene. SELinux has never caused me a problem that a simple 'look 'n > fix it' could not solve. It is work in progress and when you use older > releases it can cause problems. At some unknown point in the future, a couple hours before SELinux goes EOL, your last sentence will still be accurate. Andy
