kelsey hudson wrote:
I don't. I'm a seasoned systems admin, and I log in as root. I always have. I always will. SELinux may be great for some things, for the ultra-paranoid, and the necessity for things to be ultra-secure, but honestly, in the real world 99% of the functionality just isn't needed if you set your system up properly, with sane configurations and an appropriate firewalling scheme.
The problem is what do you do when ssh suddenly has a vulnerability such as a few years ago? Without SE Linux you have no recourse. That affects pretty much every machine server or not since almost everyone runs ssh.
Security, like most things, is all relative. You only employ as much as you need. If your "security" is getting in the way and not affording you
Given the number of intrusions and other security related problems who really has as much security as they need?
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