Disable SELinux in LiveCD

Nils Philippsen nphilipp at redhat.com
Wed Mar 26 13:34:31 UTC 2008


On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 06:52 -0400, Robi wrote:
> While I was using Fedora 9 Beta (x86_64) GNOME LiveCD, I tried to
> change my keyboard layout to Croatian, and got SELinux warning. I
> think that configurating SELinux to change keyboard layout can be
> pretty frustrating to new users, so my advise is disable it while in
> LiveCD mode. As far as I know, the SELinux is really not needed in
> LiveCD mode...

The advice of switching SELinux off is almost always completely wrong. A
(hypothetical?) SELinux-protected web browser helps users of Live media
as well. Why not just fix configuring the keyboard instead?

Nils
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