Request to re-add option to disable SELinux

Colin Walters walters at verbum.org
Wed Jul 2 20:28:23 UTC 2008


2008/7/2 Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com>:

> On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 16:10 -0400, Jon Masters wrote:
> >
> > But there are numerous other justifications I could give, including my
> > personal belief that it's absolutely nuts to thrust SE Linux upon
> > unsuspecting Desktop users (who don't know what it is anyway) without
> > giving them the choice to turn it off.
>
> If they don't know what it is, how are they supposed to decide to shut
> it off or not?


Yeah, we're trying to make installing Fedora not be a Choose Your Own Linux
Adventure game.

Either the SELinux policy works well enough that it is enabled by default
and supported, or it's not.

Besides, the option already exists - you can system-config-selinux after
installing.
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