Re: : SElinux
Bill Thanis <[email protected]> Mon, 18 Aug 2014 10:19:57 -0400
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There are two very different types of security. The first is security from humans, ie the two examples you gave. The second is security from malicious or error filled programs. SELINUX is mostly about protecting one group of system resources (files) from processes that could cause it problems. Bill On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 11:11 PM, Howard Gibson <[email protected]> wrote: > On my home computer and laptops, SElinux is a pain in the butt. > > Who is protected by SElinux? Does it protect the system from rogue > users, or does it protect from external crackers? > > -- > Howard Gibson > [email protected] > [email protected] > [email protected] > http://home.eol.ca/~hgibson > -- > The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://gtalug.org/ > TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns > How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://gtalug.org/wiki/Mailing_lists >