Thank you Red!! and the others who replied. I didn't know NSA Linux was now called SELinux, so that is where I goofed. I only recently have had some interest in this. I do understand the compartmentalized security model that they use, and that is what I am interested in. Many thanks again.
Sincerely, Rob >----- ------- Original Message ------- ----- >From: :gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org >To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org >Sent: Tue, 31 May 2005 09:31:01 > >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >Hash: SHA1 > > > >Andrew Gaffney wrote: >> rob3 wrote: >> >>>Where do you get this? I couldn't find it on the >www.nsa.gov site. >>>What am I missing? >> >> >> Do you mean selinux? Try ><http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/hardened/selinux/ind >ex.xml>. >> >i was at a linuxshow last week were someone >presented selinux. i don't >think it is very usable. i think you should only >use it if you really >need it or you have a test-system to try for the >first time cause you' >need some time to get into it. > >i read through the guide a bit and it tells to only >use on servers. be >aware that you can not be able to log in (with the >right permissions) to >your own system. so always know the boot parameters >for grub or lilo to >start from comandline without selinux. >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) >Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - >http://enigmail.mozdev.org > >iD8DBQFCnBKz87VFzvTnEtARAhwRAJ95eCmpbhVbSkQX8kcdCFz >Vgw8s/gCePOza >O4gYbMiGgezSMwIPvNRgeQA= >=vgQG >-----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >-- >gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
