Need help for midterm project/presentation (FC5 & SELinux)

[Richard Irving]

Leffler, Sean wrote:
> So I volunteered (!?!?!)  to give a presentation on SELinux for my 
> midtem project.
> At the time I thought 'cool, how hard can this be.'  (ok, you can stop 
> laughing now)

       http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/selinux-faq-fc5/

    "audit2allow -M local.te"     is your friend, or enemy if misused.

    Also make sure you "yum install checkpolicy", so this works as 
expected...

>  
> So now I'm a bit panic'd. I picked up the Oreilly's book and the other 
> one SELinux by example.
> The pickle I'm in is that the class is using FC5 and both books were 
> written for earlier versions and its befuddling me.
>  
> So I thought I would beg on this list for a few examples I could 
> present to the class on how to do some basic policy stuff.
> Like here is a new widget and this is how you modify permissions to 
> make it work, yada yada. Nothing major just simple stuff like that. (I 
> will touch on the targeted policy for the big daemons/services but I 
> wanted to show how you might tackle a problem that was not part of the 
> targeted list.)
>  
> I have been reading everything I can find on FC5/SELinux but I've just 
> run out of time. 
> So any help would be appreciated, and FWIW, I really dig this stuff. :)
>  
> Sean
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