On 9/24/07, Beartooth <Beartooth@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, 23 Sep 2007 17:06:11 -0500, Arthur Pemberton wrote: > > > On 9/23/07, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Beartooth wrote: > >> > >> > Hmmm ... So if I disable it, I better leave it disabled till > >> > the > >> > next release of Fedora? > >> > >> Before you enable it again, you can make it relabel everything > >> according to the default policy by following the steps outlined in the > >> SELinux FAQ at http;//docs.fedoraproject.org. Otherwise labels for > >> files created when SELinux was disabled would be incorrect and likely > >> to cause problems. > > > > I don't think anyone complaining here has read the docs, but still, this > > link may also help: > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SELinux > > Well, I tried both again -- and they're still geek to me. I feel > like a kid doing well in high school geometry who has picked up a third- > year college calculus text, and found himself being told to derive all > the formulae in Peirce's Tables. Yaaa, shuuure ... > > Sorry about that. > > And just to repeat, I hope the example makes clear that I have no > doubt the explanations are correct. And with a degree in mathematics, I'm > not afraid of subtlety nor complexity per se; it's just that I'm not > going to live enough longer to learn all you have to know to read such > documents, however excellent they be on their own level. It's quite possible that some of us are simply incapable of seeing the complexity in SElinux. Since I first came across it (in FC2), I believe that I have spent less than an hour actually reading through its docs (tutorials,FAQs, MANs). On the other hand, I find Calculus 3 to be quite challenging. -- Fedora 7 : sipping some of that moonshine ( www.pembo13.com )
