Announcing the third test release of Fedora Core 2

[Guy Fraser]

Stephen Smalley wrote:

>On Wed, 2004-04-28 at 10:05, Jay Daniels wrote:
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>>I will have to catch up on some reading.  I thought SELinux was a
>>modified kernel published by the government!
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>The kernel security framework and module for SELinux are in mainline
>Linux 2.6.  So all 2.6-based Linux distros should at least have the
>SELinux kernel code.
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>>Why would Fedora even include it or does it just include support for
>>SELinux?
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>The plan to incorporate SELinux into Fedora Core 2, including the
>necessary userland and policy integration, was announced long ago.  But
>you have the option to disable it, and it is disabled by default
>presently.
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>>I do not think most users here would need SELinux.
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>SELinux provides a flexible mechanism for enforcing security policies;
>you can configure it for your specific security needs.
>See the paper available from
>http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/papers/inevit-abs.cfm for a discussion of why
>such a mechanism is important.
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OMG! The NSA 8 my cookies. :-P