Why do I need SELinux?

David Cary Hart Fedora at TQMcube.com
Sun Feb 20 17:20:03 UTC 2005


On Sun, 2005-02-20 at 22:41 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:

> David, You havent understood the selinux protection for apache. MAC
> based security like SELinux offers much more than you can possibly
> have with protection through file permissions.

I think that's exactly what I said; I won't use what I don't fully
understand. Please give me a specific example of precisely what SEL
might do for Apache.
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