Please turn SELinux off by default (was: Re: Howto turn off selinux?)

[Douglas Furlong]

On Sun, 2004-04-04 at 23:53, Raymond Lillard wrote:
> shrek-m at gmx.de wrote:
> > Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> > 
> >> On Apr  4, 2004, "Kym Farnik" <kym.farnik at internode.on.net> wrote:
> >>
> >>> 1. Is there a simple howto for selinux?
> >>>   
> >>
> >> Err...  How about the release notes, for starters?
> >>
> > 
> > eg.
> > http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/test/1.91/i386/os/RELEASE-NOTES-en.html
> > 
> > -->   http://people.redhat.com/kwade/fedora-docs/selinux-faq-en/
> 
> 
> How about making the SELinux default be OFF.
> Then people can assimilate its new features
> at will rather than being forced to deal with
> it at installation time.
The main reason this is turned on by default is to increase the amount
of testing it receives before going mainstream in to a non test
environment where users can expect to not have to deal with this, as
apposed to a testing environment where a tester should reasonable assume
they may have some heart ache.

Doug