On Wed, 2011-02-23 at 08:09 -0800, Terry Trapp wrote:
> I have recently been brought back from the Dark Sideā„¢ to administer some 
> Linux boxen. Something that has changed in my absence is that SELinux is now 
> enabled by default and appears to have a fairly prohibitive default policy. 
> (On CentOS) I would like to draw on the group's experience and know your 
> thoughts, opinions and philosophy of how best to deal with it.
> 
> My initial thought is to leave it enabled and adjust the policy as needed for 
> a given service. The issue I have ran into is that I have not found a 
> comprehensive CLI tool to administer the policy. Outright disabling it has 
> been the best answer in a couple of cases.
> 
> Also, does anyone know of a good book that can give an overview of the 
> current implementation of SELinux?

Steal RHEL's config and their happy little python tool.  Basically, it
gives you a decent template of permissions for all directories, and the
python tool lets you just fist-type what amounts to a chdowtfIsayown
-R /var/www, for example.

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