I've been a security wonk for many years, and the problem I have with SeLinux is that when it makes a decision I disagree with, it's like pulling teeth to change it's mind. So I sometimes just turn it off Sigh -- Principal Investigator Shirleys Bay Radio Astronomy Consortium http://www.sbrac.org On Aug 31, 2010, at 11:13 AM, Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> place. I quote one more from the same thread. This one is from Linus: >> >> "I find SELinux to be so irrelevant to my usage that I don't use >> it at all" >> >> http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/10/2/353 > > Linus is not exactly famous for his ability to understand security > concepts. I find the fact your argument is produced by google and > cut/paste rather than technical material ... enlightening > > But hey if Linus jumped down a volcano would you follow ? > > There *are* cases where you want SELinux off - isolated high > performance > computing clusters for example where you want the absolute minimal > overhead but they also usually turn off other junk Fedora inflicts on > people by default which is far more pointless - like LVM (unless you > are > doing crypted fs stuff) > > Alan > -- > users mailing list > users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
