Package: debian-installer Severity: wishlist Hi,
We are at a point where we can support a targeted SELinux policy, at least in permissive mode, I suggest that we ship SELinux installed, but turned off by default; and a README or a short shell script fr the local administrator to enable SELinux. Our support at this point is better in some respects to any other distribution (selecting and installing modular policy modules, for instance). All the core packages support SELinux (unlike in, say, Ubuntu). We can do this by adding selinux-policy-refpolicy-targeted, and the dependencies, to the installer. With the help of apt-rdepends --dotty selinux-policy-refpolicy-targeted I have managed to determine that the packages not already included in Priority Standard are: ,----[ Additional packages required ] | Package: selinux-policy-refpolicy-targeted | Size: 1232692 | Installed-Size: 16712 | | Package: policycoreutils | Size: 348324 | Installed-Size: 3304 | | Package: libsemanage1-dev | Size: 333718 | Installed-Size: 2076 | | Package: libsemanage1 | Size: 70910 | Installed-Size: 296 | | Package: python-semanage | Size: 115336 | Installed-Size: 648 | | Package: python-selinux | Size: 61788 | Installed-Size: 308 | | Package: python-support | Size: 22934 | Installed-Size: 104 `---- The size of the .debs for targeted policy is 2185702 Bytes. No special configuration should be required; the default configuration out of the box ought to work. As shipped, the Debian kernel images have SELinux compiled in, but disabled, a command line parameter is required to turn SELinux on. When SELinux is turned on (by enabling it in grub), the default policy setting are that the machine would come on in permissive mode, using the targeted policy; so the worst case scenario is that the there would be lots of log messages if someone "accidentally" turned on SELinux. I think we are ready. And shipping SELinux by default would be a positive thing, in these days of accelerating attacks :) manoj -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-mh1-skas3-v9-pre9-fremap Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8) -- Q: How many supply-siders does it take to change a light bulb? A: None. The darkness will cause the light bulb to change by itself. Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.debian.org/~srivasta/> 1024D/BF24424C print 4966 F272 D093 B493 410B 924B 21BA DABB BF24 424C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]