[activities] Re: [CTTE] Do you want a talk for June 2009?

On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 12:05 PM, Paul Wayper <[email protected]> wrote:

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> Hi there!
>
> I'm doing some training up in Sydney next month and I finish on the night
> of
> the SLUG meeting.  I'd be happy to do either of my two SELinux talks -
> SELinux
> for Beginners or SELinux for Sysadmins.  I can supply the Impress slides if
> you wish to review the material beforehand.  I leave it up to you as to
> which
> slots you'd prefer to fill for those talks.  Some more details are:
>
> SELinux for Beginners:
>
> Paul Wayper will give a quick introduction to SELinux - specifically, how
> to
> deal with it in everyday life. He will cover checking and restoring
> permissions, changing the SELinux options, and the broader question of how
> to
> deal with a SELinux alert.
>
> SELinux for Sysadmins:
>
> Paul will be talking about getting SELinux to work with your system.
>
> In his previous talk, Paul talked about getting your system to work with
> SELinux. This involved resetting security contexts so that they were what
> SELinux expected. However, many people have customised their Linux installs
> and want SELinux to do what they say, not the other way around. Situations
> such as serving web pages from NFS shares or non-standard directories, or
> installing applications in custom locations, need specialised configuration
> of
> SELinux in order to make it work with your needs. These and other
> situations
> will be covered in the talk.
>
>
> Please let me know ASAP if you would like me to deliver either of these.


We don't currently have anything lined up - but both of these sound good.

I know it's a big ask, but do you think you'd be up to doing both the
general talk and the in-depth talk?

Personally I'd be thrilled with this: selinux is one of those things that
I've always known I'm going to have to grapple with one day, but the
learning curve seems steep - the first thing everyone always seems to do is
lock themselves out of their own system. I'd love to see the talks!


>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Paul
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