SElinux on upgraded machines

Leam Hall leam at reuel.net
Fri Dec 12 14:57:41 UTC 2008


On Fri, 2008-12-12 at 09:21 -0500, Chuck Anderson wrote:

> > I wonder if making SELinux default to "disabled" if the install selects
> > the Desktop/Office Suite group makes sense? Do many people have their
> > daily use productivity machines shared out to others? 
> 
> No, this would be bad.  Fresh installs of F9 or F10 work just fine 
> with SELinux enabled as a desktop system, as long as you don't try to 
> integrate older filesystems or NFS as the OP stated.  Even /home 
> migrates cleanly with just a simple restorecon -R /home in most cases.

Anything migrates easily if you know what to do. I don't yet see the
value of adding SELinux to a desktop machine. That may be my lack of
understanding, so I'm hoping to read the wiki book in a day or three.
Maybe then my opinion will change.

Leam




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