Red Hat Boosts SELinux With RHEL 5

E. Stride writes "Many IT managers find Security Enhanced Linux, or SELinux, to be wildly complex. The mandatory access controls originally developed by the NSA have developed a reputation for being too complicated to deal with, and many IT shops simply turn the feature off. However, Red Hat's Dan Walsh says it's the only way to ensure 100% protection in the data center."

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Re:just how good is this?

[g1zmo]

It's designed to prevent, say, one process on your machine from overwriting a file it should be able to.

Yeah, that pretty much sums up my experience too.