selinux eradicator?

[Mike McCarty]

Jim Cornette wrote:
> Mike McCarty wrote:
> 
>> I quote:
>>
>> "the management of SELinux needs and will improve with the continuous 
>> development of better user space tools"
>>
>> That is faith, not a matter of technical fact.
> 
> 
> Install F7, try out the SELinux Troubleshooter. It is a tool and surely 

No, thanks.

[snip]

>> A fellow was being roundly and unreasonably criticized for not
>> wanting to run SELinux.
> 
> How do we know that? Maybe he is a hacker foiled by SELinux preventing 
> execution of his scripts on target machines.

Good point. OTOH, that's not what the criticism was
about.

>> If I saw a request here asking how one would make root not
>> have a password, I might comment that IMO it was a bad idea,
>> but I wouldn't use sarcastic criticism[*] to try to convince
>> him of that idea. I would supply the information on how to
>> do it. Certainly, until one knows what the eventual goal
>> of someone else it, it doesn't make sense to criticize
>> it. Having root have no password is a reasonable thing for
>> a LiveCD, for example.
> 
> 
> Interpretations are different. I read Get rid of needing to install 
> anything ELinux completely or I'm changing to a different distro.

That's not what I wrote. I was writing about the distro, not what
my plans are. Personally, I don't want SELinux at present. That
might change. I don't plan to install later versions of FC, but
since that is upstream of RHEL and CentOS which I am likely to move to
some day, I have a certain stake in this matter.

I have root set up with password and run as a "normal" user
mostly to protect myself from mistakes. The standard commands
use terse easy to mistype names which, if run as root, can do
substantial damage when mistyped. So, I am very unlikely to do
damage to my system when logged in as me. When I switch to root,
I then take especial care to watch what I type, and look
before I hit return.

Life is easier when you don't have servers running :-)

Life is also easier when you keep your machine backed up.

If I got rooted, I'd probably just install CentOS and reload from
backup.

Mike
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