A most excellent point!
Joe
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mathias Stearn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2008 1:15 PM
Subject: Re: [UM-LINUX] Call for Presentations
There is a reason the number one question for SELinux is how to turn
it off. It brakes a lot of things and its not easy for the user to fix
it. Unfortunately there is money in managing the problem but not in
fixing it.
--Mathias
[These opinions are mine and mine alone]
On Jan 25, 2008 7:57 PM, Bernie Hackett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Mathias, you want to chime in here? Your work at Tresys just gives you
the warm and fuzzies for SELinux...
-Bernie
On Jan 25, 2008 6:33 PM, Shawn Wells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Richard Matthew McCutchen wrote:
>
> On Fri, 2008-01-25 at 17:31 -0500, Shawn Wells wrote:
>
>
> What do ya want to know? If I can't do it myself, I can pull in
> allot of great resources.
>
> I recently did a presentation with Dave Caplan -- he wrote the
> "SELinux by Example" book
> (http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/articles/book_review_selinux_by_example).
> The other author, Karl MacMillan, sits in the desk next to mine. Security
> is
> a hot topic internally to Red Hat right now.
>
> I would like to hear about SELinux. When I first installed Fedora on my
> computer, SELinux was enabled by default, and it broke a bunch of
> applications, so I gave up on it. I would be interested to hear whether
> you think SELinux is worthwhile for personal machines and, if so, how to
> make it work nicely.
>
> Matt
>
>
> You got it. How/where do I sign up for a date?
>
> Also, I *do* think SELinux is ready for desktop. I'm running it right now
> on my laptop.
>
