How best get rid of SELinux?

Mike McCarty Mike.McCarty at sbcglobal.net
Fri Sep 21 19:15:00 UTC 2007


Alan M. Evans wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 01:48 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
> 
> 
>>The firewall intends to prevent compromise.
>>SELinux intends to mitigate damage on a compromised machine.
> 
> 
> I think a better description would be that SELinux intends to keep a
> compromised application from becoming a compromised system.

One of the technical terms for that is Fault Isolation. I've designed
some Fault Isolation systems, myself.

Mike
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