Selinux and Compiz

[Jerry Amundson]

On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 7:31 PM, Rahul Sundaram
<sundaram at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> Jerry Amundson wrote:
>>
>> Probably useful one time in a thousand.
>
> Excellent record then.

Whatever.

>> Basic software and network security practices easily cover your examples.
>
> Reading the references would help and shows you otherwise. You asked for
> real life cases where SELinux has blocked attacks and you have been provided
> with some of those.

I did. We're talking about a rotten apple, and you give us a tour of
the orange grove.
It's unclear as to the origin of the nVidia driver in question, but it
matters not. The point is to have a usable desktop all of the time.
The state of an Apache web server doesn't matter, nor does some server
doing an insecure dance I'm all too familiar with, the "mambo", all of
which could be headless servers for all we know.

>> Chuck, kudos to you and everybody else who puts up with selinux. I
>> can't take the productivity hit it eventually causes with things like
>> this.
>
> Sure. You have your freedom.

Yes, and I'm not afraid to use it.

jerry

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