Bruno Wolff III wrote:
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 21:49:18 -0800,
Konstantin Svist <fry.kun(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> But then what am I, as the end-user, supposed to do? Supposedly, if the
> app isn't fixed right away, I should allow the activity by creating a
> rule -- but there doesn't seem to be an easy way of doing that.
> In essence, as the article says, selinux is well-suited for servers, not
> for desktops. Though I doubt how well it's suited for servers, since you
> still need to be able to do some voodoo ritual to get the server stuff
> working. If it's not common knowledge or completely automated, it's
> pretty much useless.
>
Yes there are tools to allow new rules to be added. There is at least
a command line tool to do this; I am not sure about a GUI tool.
It is suited for desktops as well. It has been getting some nice features
in that regard lately. Go take a look at Dan Walsh's live journal page
if you are interested in reading about these.
Yeah, but if I don't understand how any of it works, it's just as useful
to me as the car keys are to a monkey.
I've tried reading SELinux for Dummies
(
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SELinux/Understanding) but I still don't
really get it. The worst part is, I had to concentrate to understand
what the page is telling me - and I'm a CS major :P
The average Joe won't even go this far - in other words, he won't
understand how to work with it - meaning it's NOT suited for desktops.