FC6 SELinux issues

Gene Czarcinski gene at czarc.net
Tue Oct 10 01:57:53 UTC 2006


On Monday 09 October 2006 21:22, Joshua Brindle wrote:
> Gene Czarcinski wrote:
> > On Monday 09 October 2006 10:05, Christopher J. PeBenito wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>> I assume that strict mode should be capable of running X ... true or
> >>> false?
> >>>      
> >>
> >> Strictly speaking (no pun intended) yes, since it does have the xserver
> >> module.  In reality, it probably still has issues since very few desktop
> >> users want a strict policy, so it is untested.
> >>    
> >
> > While a server may not have a good display directly attached, it would be
> > useful to run X remotely since some of the system configuration tools are
> > gui only ... for example, selinux.
> >  
>
> running X apps that are exported to a remote machine isn't the same
> thing as running an Xserver on the local machine.

Yes, but I was told not to install X (it was not supported).  If it is "only" 
the running of Xserver that is not supported with strict or mls policies, 
then I can live with that.  However, running Xserver will need to be 
supported to be competitive with TSOL.
-- 
Gene




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