SELinux on single-user box?
Phillip T. George
phillip at eacsi.com
Wed Jun 15 19:19:52 UTC 2005
Ben Steeves wrote:
>Hi Folks,
>
>I'm not trying to start a flamewar or anything, this is an innocent question:
>
>Is there any compelling reason to run SELinux on a home system that is
>mainly "single-user" if you are running a well-configured firewall
>with almost all services turned off or filtered?
>
>I notice a lot of posts (the NVidia driver one most recently) that
>report problems going away when SELinux is disabled. I don't enable
>it on my home machine for this very reason.
>
>
>
Ben,
SELinux is not necessary on ANY configuration. We've lived without it
before :) It is highly recommended, because its ANOTHER level of
security, but if its just a box at home, I wouldn't worry about it so much.
-Phillip
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