On Wed, 27 Dec 2006, Theodore Tso wrote: > On Wed, Dec 27, 2006 at 08:18:24PM +0100, Karel Zak wrote: > > Frankly, it wasn't always easy to use SeLinux in previous FC > > releases, but there is huge progress and I think it's much better in > > FC6. > > I've never tried SELinux, but at one point there were all sorts of > horror stories that if you enabled SELinux, the moment you installed > any 3rd party software packages, whether it's Oracle or Websphere or > some other commercial application program, the application would break > because of all sorts of SELinux policy violations, and that it > required an SELinux wizard to configure SELinux policy to enable a 3rd > party application to actually work correctly. Given that I tried > enabling SELinux, witnessed things break spectacularly and with no > hints about how to fix things, I've always had the attitude of "life > is too short to enable SELinux", and so my limited experience is > consistent with all of the horror stories that I've heard.
I see the fine grained security of Selinux as a big problem for third party applications. It's a big job to make the OS work cleanly with it but the fact is that many machines need to run significant 3rd party applications. I don't have first hand experience but I suspect most vendors have tight enough budgets without adding an Selinux developer and customers usually don't have this resource either so, by and large, I expect people will just have to disable it. I really don't see any solution to this problem either. Time will tell. Ian - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
