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Posted Oct 21, 2009 6:04 UTC (Wed) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313)
In reply to: SELinux by njs
Parent article: LPC: Three sessions from the security track

I am not frequently in agreement with spender, but SELinux has been advertised as being able to block things like deleting home directories (in fact IIRC, when I first heard of it, it was with "here is the root password to a system that's reachable on the Internet, because it's running SELinux you can't hurt it."


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Posted Oct 22, 2009 0:05 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

What happened to that machine? Is it still root-exposed to the net? :)

SELinux

Posted Oct 22, 2009 1:44 UTC (Thu) by njs (subscriber, #40338) [Link]

It's here (and has been since 2002):
http://www.coker.com.au/selinux/play.html

And was online as recently as February:
http://etbe.coker.com.au/2009/02/17/lenny-play-machine-on...

Though I'm getting "no route to host" right now -- perhaps because it is getting warm again in Australia :-) (see last link)

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