Hi all,

regarding the topic of disabling SELinux altogether to speed-up cluster
setup times.  Pablo writes:

> I have also modified my playbooks to disable selinux. Personally I have
> found selinux to give more headache than advantages and for a temporary
> cluster I find more convenient to disable it. I would also suggest that the
> default behavior in elasticluster could be to keep selinux disabled.

I have been a bit wary of doing this: I am not using CentOS/RHEL and I
know very little about the whole SELinux management in RHEL/CentOS.  I
have the impression people tend to just disable it, but then RH has put
a lot of effort in tightening SELinux over a number of RHEL releases
(and they dedicate a large chapter of their product manual to it) that
it seems wasteful to just disable the security framework altogether.

OTOH, I am (again) no RHEL/CentOS sysadmin so what do people using
RHEL/CentOS do?  Is it important to keep SELinux, or do you just set it
to non-enforcing mode as the first thing after installation? :-)

I have opened bug #480 for tracking discussion on this issue: please
feel free to state your comments and reactions there:
https://github.com/gc3-uzh-ch/elasticluster/issues/480

Ciao,
R

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