SELinux used to confuse me and make me angry until I had an epithany: It's really just Mandatory Access Controls that override the normal Unixish permissions. Since I sorta understood the RACFVM MAC concepts I was able to transfer the ideas over to Linux and suddenly all the docs & training materials made a lot more sense.
Now it's just a royal pain to deal with, instead of being a large blank area on the map that says "Thar be dragons here" -- Jay Brenneman ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
