Selinux

Practical SELinux: Port contexts and handling access alerts

May 25, 2011

Last week was my third and final part of my series that introduced SELinux on Techrepublic: Practical SELinux: Port contexts and handling access alerts. This one finishes off what we were looking at in part two, and introduces port contexts (ensuring that a program can only …

Practical SELinux for the beginner: Contexts and labels

May 10, 2011

This week’s techmail is Practical SELinux for the beginner: Contexts and labels which is part two of my series on SELinux. This one talks about how to get started with SELinux (how to turn it on or off), how to view contexts, and how to create new contexts, how to set them, …

Introduction to SELinux: Don't let complexity scare you off

April 26, 2011

This week’s techmail is Introduction to SELinux: Don’t let complexity scare you off. This is the first of a three-part series that introduces SELinux and digs into some of the basics on how to change policies, add policies, troubleshoot SELinux, and basically give you …

Crispin responds to allegations that AppArmor is dying

September 3, 2008

A recent post from Russ Coker entitled AppArmor is Dead was tolling the death bells for AppArmor because SUSE decided to include SELinux in their operating system… not as the default, and not as a replacement for AppArmor, but it was included nonetheless. Russ determined …