fedora-selinux-list Digest, Vol 18, Issue 9

Joe Orton jorton at redhat.com
Tue Aug 9 15:36:42 UTC 2005


On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 10:35:54AM -0400, John Griffiths wrote:
>  Joe Orton wrote:
>  The above all represent important functionality.
> 
> 
>    Agreed.
> 
>  I'm not convinced that the security vs usability tradeoff is being won
>  in favour of enabling the boolean by default.
> 
> 
>    I don't quite understand this sentence. Are you saying the boolean should
>    be enabled by default? We certainly need the functionality. When security
>    gets in the way of getting the job done, then we have lost the war.

Sorry, I inverted the logic!  I'm arguing that the 
httpd_can_network_connect boolean should be enabled by default, yes.

joe




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