On [Fri Jan 25 17:49], Richard Matthew McCutchen wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-01-25 at 17:31 -0500, Shawn Wells wrote:
> > What do ya want to know? If I can't do it myself, I can pull in
> > allot of great resources.
> >
> > I recently did a presentation with Dave Caplan -- he wrote the
> > "SELinux by Example" book
> > (http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/articles/book_review_selinux_by_example).
> > The other author, Karl MacMillan, sits in the desk next to mine.
> > Security is a hot topic internally to Red Hat right now.
>
> I would like to hear about SELinux. When I first installed Fedora on my
> computer, SELinux was enabled by default, and it broke a bunch of
> applications, so I gave up on it. I would be interested to hear whether
> you think SELinux is worthwhile for personal machines and, if so, how to
> make it work nicely.
>
> Matt
i was also pragmatic, my own code stopped working and i didn't have the energy
to
read all these esoteric manuals. Example, one of our software was making shared
objects
(.so files), and I had to use the following command to liberate it from the
wrath of
SELINUX
chcon -t texrel_shlib_t *.so
maybe i've not given somebody else the pleasant "aha" moment :-)
I'm still not using it though.
- peter
