Craig White wrote:
On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 12:54 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
On Friday 21 September 2007, Mike McCarty wrote:
Karl Larsen wrote:
This whole thing reads to me that SELinux is the linux version of
Norton or Avguard to Windows. It will capture and keep the offending
file from doing it's worst.
My friends with Windows cuss both software because it makes a mess
out of doing normal things like installing new software.
There are very few Linux users. There are millions of Windows users.
A guy writing a virus will write it for Windows every time! Now days
they are spending time in prison.
So I decided to turn off SELinux even though it was not the thing to
do according to the loader. I am glad I did so. I don't need the Norton
problem on my F7.
Well put. It is a solution to a non-problem. It creates more
admin worries than it solves.
To put it another way: Where is the vast audience of Linux
users who have been clamoring for improvements to security
like those provided by SELinux?
There is an audience of Linux users who are requesting that
it be removed.
+1
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this is one of the reasons it won't ever happen...
http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/06/15/red-hat-linux-gets-top-government-security-rating_1.html
feel free to keep posting your uninformed opinions though and I note
that this is clearly one circle where your opinions don't count.
Well I have as much right to my fully developed position on this
list as you have your "gut feeling". I say it is not at all likely that
a virus will be written for Linux. What do you say to that? You think it
is possible so it needs to be fixed.
We have a half wit President in Bush and I can't get him out of
office. I don't loose sleep or write 50 messages. I know what I can not
change.
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Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
Linux User
#450462 http://counter.li.org.
