selinux eradicator?

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Thu Jun 28 20:30:09 UTC 2007


Mike McCarty wrote:
> Jim Cornette wrote:
> 
> [snip]
> 
> 
>> SELinux is now active on most computers since it is easier to diagnose 
>> problems, report misbehaving programs in a security sense.
> 
> What do you mean by "most computers"? "Most computers running FC6"?

SELinux is not FC6 specific. It is part of the upstream kernel and itt 
is default in versions of Fedora from FC3 onwards and default in RHEL 
from RHEL 4 onwards (and rebuilds). It is also available in Debian, 
Ubuntu, Gentoo etc.

> It would be nice to address the original question, which is
> 
> For those of us who prefer not to install or run SELinux, how can
> we do that easily without leaving Fedora Core Project?

Not running SELinux is trivially easy and is in the SELinux FAQ. 
Removing most of the related packages has been answered in this thread.

Rahul




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