How best get rid of SELinux?

[Arthur Pemberton]

On 9/21/07, Res <res at ausics.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Sep 2007, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
>
> > Selinux is another layer of security, it isn't a replacement of any
> > security layers, I see no reason why anyone feels such apparently
> > hostility to this piece of technology.
>
> and its a PITA, stopping many things working, we dont have time to sit in
> front of a newly built server and spend an hour telling the thing its
> "safe" blah blah blah, its one of the reasons the fedora desktops on
> internal lan in still FC1 because its stable, although, by default we dont
> use half of RH's installed stuff on the desktops, we use the real
> sendmails, real firefox's real openoffices, real evolutions, real kernels
> , real mplayer and other multimedia stuff that plays the formats WE want
> not what RH decides we should use, and so on and so on.
>
> its simple, if the user doesnt want to use it, they should not have to
> install or deconfigure it.


That comment doesn't seem to have been written with the intention of
attracting constructive responses. I fear sysadmins who are always
quick to say that they don't have time.

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