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Novell aims to make Linux security easy
Robert Lemos, 2006-08-18
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Novell aims to make Linux security easy 2006-08-20
Anonymous (1 replies)
Security is never easy. If Novell tries to make Linux secure and easy at the same time, I guess they won't succeed at all....

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Re: Novell aims to make Linux security easy 2006-08-22
Anonymous
You clearly have not tried SELinux and AppArmor before. If you had, you would know that SELinux takes time and effort to get used to, to fully exploit its potential. (And its pretty damn good, once you figure it out).

Its often too tedious for most people to use, and they often turn it off. (I th...

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AppArmor is fine but the absence of SELinux hurts SuSE 2006-08-21
Anonymous in Financial Services
APParmor is fine but it really only handles file system restrictions not system call restrictions. If they added that then there would be some reasonable arguments about which approach was better. As it is I need functionality from SELinux to secure my system - its not that hard to configure for...

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