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If you're installing third party services, and exposing them to the internet, or even local networks, it's not out of line to expect you to know what you're doi
by ehutch79 4y ago
If you're installing third party services, and exposing them to the internet, or even local networks, it's not out of line to expect you to know what you're doing. At least enough to turn off the 'dont shoot yourself in the foot' protections
- foldr 4y agoPeople who "don't know what they're doing" will just disable SELinux if it's too difficult to configure the policy that they want. It's better to make security policies easy to configure correctly so that more people do it correctly. Also, what does "third party" really mean in this context? I am neither the author of the Linux distro that I'm using nor the web server that I want to use. It's all third party software from my point of view.
- ehutch79 4y agoYou need some level of expertise to turn off selinux, or even know what it is. They know what they're doing enough to know the consequences if they can turn it off. By third party, i mean stuff not in the distro. It's extra effort to install something else. You're likely to have at least a link to docs in your face when you went and got the binaries.