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Any good tutorials?

Any good tutorials?

Posted Jul 31, 2008 18:44 UTC (Thu) by emk (guest, #1128)
Parent article: OLS: SELinux from academia to your desktop

I spent several hours poking around various SELinux web sites, and I wasn't able to find a good introduction to SELinux's security model. I did find some pretty interesting tutorials floating around the web, though:

  1. A tutorial on customizing Fedora's SELinux rules for Apache
  2. A tutorial on writing a security policy for Asterix

It looks like the new, modular SELinux policies might actually be pretty useful. But does anyone have documentation recommendations for getting started?


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Any good tutorials?

Posted Jul 31, 2008 19:17 UTC (Thu) by emk (guest, #1128) [Link]

Here's a very nice starting point: SELinux Concepts.

Any good tutorials?

Posted Jul 31, 2008 19:55 UTC (Thu) by jamesmrh2 (guest, #31680) [Link]

Dan Walsh's blog is probably the best bet for documentation of current/recent developments:
http://danwalsh.livejournal.com/

Also see his presentations directory:
http://dwalsh.fedorapeople.org/SELinux/Presentations/

A couple of documentation projects have recently started -- we should see some good
introductory docs and tutorials from those soon.

Check out the RHEL5 docs:
http://www.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux...

Links to everything we know about are collected at the wiki:
http://selinuxproject.org/page/Main_Page

For information on the underlying model, there are some scholarly docs at the NSA SELinux
site:
http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/info/docs.cfm



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