Fedora vs OpenSuse

Ralf Corsepius rc040203 at freenet.de
Fri Jun 15 08:21:44 UTC 2007


On Thu, 2007-06-14 at 16:54 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Jun 2007 11:25:08 -0400
> taharka <res00vl8 at alltel.net> wrote:
> 
> > OpenSuse/SEL includes AppArmor, which is they're answer to SELINUX &
> > supposedly easier to configure/administrate ;-)
> 
> Yea, AppArmor is really secure :-). At work someone found it
> was refusing to let them run something (I forget which program,
> some utterly common utility like uname or date or something).
> They copied the executable to a different name file, and it
> let them run the copy just fine.
Well, is this much better than SELinux-issues preventing your Fedora
systems to work properly?

I've never encountered a case where SELinux caught an actual security
breach, but I've seen many cases were SELinux prevented systems from
operating properly.

Ralf





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