I picked up an info tidbit lately (one one of these lists, I think), to the effect that the next Fedora release will have SELinux; so, being as I am paranoid on principle in my electronic ignorance, I'm trying to read more than I can follow at http://www.nsa.gov/selinux -- especially since I liked what I saw of Fedora, and would probably still be using it if it had had a line in the GUI display config for my new flat panel monitor (as, I hope & trust, it's apt to ere long).
Given that I live behind a hardware router as well as RedHat's medium level of security -- and normally turn the cable modem off at night, as well as shutting everything down when out of town, and updating every few days when in town, or at once on receipt of any security notice from RedHat -- does SELinux look like being more of a boon or a hassle?
If not, I should be looking at caosity and mandrake, to have an alternative when I cease to be safe (or able at all!) to run RH9 ...
What flat panel do you have that Xfree does not support?
And did you kill someone?
On Sun, 28 Mar 2004 17:42:56 -0500, michael fivis wrote:
What flat panel do you have that Xfree does not support?
BenQ FP767
And did you kill someone?
-- that I should be paranoid, you mean? Far from it; I just don't know enough to know how to protect myself intelligently -- so I take all the precautions I can understand, in order at least not to be an easy target.,.
On Mon, 2004-03-29 at 00:34, Bear Tooth wrote:
On Sun, 28 Mar 2004 17:42:56 -0500, michael fivis wrote:
What flat panel do you have that Xfree does not support?
BenQ FP767
And did you kill someone?
-- that I should be paranoid, you mean? Far from it; I just don't know enough to know how to protect myself intelligently -- so I take all the precautions I can understand, in order at least not to be an easy target.,.
I'd wait until you see what the SELinux config comes out like before you jumped ship. I suspect that most distributions will adopt it eventually.
IMHO your security measures are basic good practise, and nowhere near paranoid.
Another curmudgeonly Codger (behind two layers of firewalling).
Hi Bear Tooth,
Given that I live behind a hardware router as well as RedHat's medium level of security -- and normally turn the cable modem off at night, as well as shutting everything down when out of town, and updating every few days when in town, or at once on receipt of any security notice from RedHat -- does SELinux look like being more of a boon or a hassle?
These kind of issues are better discussed at the fedora-test-list or the fedora-selinux-list (this is the desktop-list, ie for discussion on desktop development). See http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo for subscription. You can also find the archives there. Similar questions to yours have been discussed on these lists in the last few days (at least on the test-list), so you might want to browse the archive a little.
Also there's a FAQ that handles most basic questions at http://people.redhat.com/kwade/fedora-docs/selinux-faq-en/ .
Leonard.
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