Core 3 Release 1 - SELinux is activated by default

William Hooper whooperhsd3 at earthlink.net
Sat Jul 17 02:41:24 UTC 2004


Terry Linhardt said:
[snip]
> Look, I was suggesting something for consideration. The rationale is
> that many individuals don't care to get "entangled" in SELinux at this 
> time. There are plenty of other things to be tested. Now, I'll accept that
> the case can be made that the configuration can be readily changed via a
> drop-down box, and an individual should know what they are doing when they
> accept a "default" (which is to implement SELinux). However, my sense is
> that when something is implemented which requires some different admin
> techniques then the default should be to "not implement."

One would hope that someone choosing to install a test release would do the research to know what they are doing. :-)

The best way to get something widely tested it to make it the default.  The more SELinux gets tested the better it will get.

-- 
William Hooper





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