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Re: Updated SELinux Release



On Fri, 2004-11-05 at 10:28 +0000, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 11:06:06PM -0500, Colin Walters wrote:
> > On Thu, 2004-11-04 at 13:15 +0000, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> > 
> > >  default: no.
> > 
> > Why not on by default, 
> 
>  i would agree with stephen that it should be compiled in,
>  default options "selinux=no".

I don't believe Stephen said that.  He said that the performance hit in
that case is just the LSM hooks.

>  that gives people the choice, 

It doesn't make sense to make security a "choice".  The current Linux
security model is simply inadequate.

http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/papers/inevit-abs.cfm

> without affecting performance.

That's just a bug, and it's being worked on.  Personally I don't notice
any performance problems.

> > with a targeted policy, for everyone?  
> 
>  debianites have yet to be convinced of the benefits of
>  _anything_ to do with selinux [irrespective of whether they
>  are actually _aware_ of its benefits]

That's what we're working on.




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