Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on April 29, 2007 05:57 PM
I have been waiting for some direction that Ubuntu, to be really serious as a distro, is adopting a strong security stack.
SELinux (Security Enhanced Linux first promoted by the National Security Agency, aka NSA) is something that needs to be SWITCHED ON BY DEFAULT.
On another forum, I commmented the same, but the reply was that it was an application breaker. BUT, it is not, if the SELinux ON switch is focuses on the Kernel and Root level activities. AND SELINUX is customized by the distro and it's applications to be friendly and also switched on for various application level (user space) activities as well.
None the less, to be a serious distro for use in any enterprise, or any home use, or mobile laptop use while logging into various WiFi Hot Spots,<nobr> <wbr></nobr>...for someone, or a business, who is educated in the value of the art of security..., well, SELINUX for Ubuntu needs to be taking a page from Fedora and Red Hat, and security needs to be taken seriously by Ubuntu. Otherwise, Ubuntu is worthless.
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Why no SELinux by default? Fedora has it!
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on April 29, 2007 05:57 PMSELinux (Security Enhanced Linux first promoted by the National Security Agency, aka NSA) is something that needs to be SWITCHED ON BY DEFAULT.
On another forum, I commmented the same, but the reply was that it was an application breaker. BUT, it is not, if the SELinux ON switch is focuses on the Kernel and Root level activities. AND SELINUX is customized by the distro and it's applications to be friendly and also switched on for various application level (user space) activities as well.
None the less, to be a serious distro for use in any enterprise, or any home use, or mobile laptop use while logging into various WiFi Hot Spots,<nobr> <wbr></nobr>...for someone, or a business, who is educated in the value of the art of security..., well, SELINUX for Ubuntu needs to be taking a page from Fedora and Red Hat, and security needs to be taken seriously by Ubuntu. Otherwise, Ubuntu is worthless.
SEubuntu anyone? SEKubuntu, SEXubuntu, etc?
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