On Mon, 2004-11-08 at 21:10 +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote:

> SELinux, when configured properly, would have made it inordinately hard for
> an unprivileged [1] user to escalate their privileges to the equivalent of
> root (because, with SELinux, you can make 'root' or uid 0 entirely useless).
> So that common program may not have the capabilities to intrude on the
> kernel as it might on other systems.

Still doesn't fix bugs :).

Rob

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