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Security: Realistic SELinux

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SELinux for mortals?
The orginal SELinux approach was that anything not expressly permitted was forbidden. Technically, this meant that every program anybody would ever run had to be configured with a policy that indicated what files it could touch, who could run it, and every other aspect of the program that might present a risk. Practically, this meant that you'd start your system and find that some obscure daemon wasn't running--and the only diagnostic aid you had was a few lines listing process IDs and inodes.
 read more | mail this link | score:5123 | -Ray, March 3, 2005
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