Why do I need SELinux?

[David Cary Hart]

On Sat, 2005-02-19 at 17:03 +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> 
> I've skimmed through the two references above,
> and remain unconvinced that SELinux has anything to offer me,
> a fairly standard home Linux user.
> 
I'm running production web, mail and FTP servers and I don't appreciate
the value of SELinux. Someone in the DShield list referred to this as
"protection for the tinfoil helmet set."

However, I do not NAT SSH nor Telnet. For that matter, the only ports
that are open are http, smtp, pop3 and ftp.

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