SELinux smolt stats

Casey Dahlin cjdahlin at ncsu.edu
Wed Feb 20 17:49:03 UTC 2008


Benjamin Kreuter wrote:
> On Wednesday 20 February 2008 05:45:47 Valent Turkovic wrote:
>   
>> If this arguments are true for Fedora 8 than it looks like that more
>> people dislike selinux than like it, right?
>>     
>
> It is also possible that they had not enabled SELinux in the past, and never 
> had time to enable it in more recent Fedora releases.  Enabling SELinux for 
> the first time requires the entire filesystem to be scanned, and for some 
> people who have large disks and have been using their system for a while, 
> that could be a hassle, so they may choose to not do it.
>
> Also remember that these stats do not represent an unbiased sample, and should 
> not be taken to be an indication of the broad Fedora user base.
>
> -- Benjamin Kreuter
>
>   

+1

I don't run SELinux on anything right now because I turned it off way 
back when and never bothered to turn it back on.

--CJD




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