Re: [PLUG] SELinux Talk a Central

[Walt Mankowski <waltman@pobox.com>]

You're on the schedule!

On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 12:31:32PM -0400, Ronald P Guilmet wrote:
> Yes Gavin that would be great. JP my Mondays are pretty jammed up, but
> North is on Tuesdays, that would work. If the powers to be lol want to
> pencil me in for 9/12/2017, that would be good.
> 
> Ron
> 
> On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 9:15 AM, Gavin W. Burris <bug@wharton.upenn.edu>
> wrote:
> 
> > Hi, Ron.
> >
> > This is very timely, as I am cobbling together an SELinux presentation,
> > too.  Count on me to attend.  Would you like me to show custom policies and
> > how to manage SELinux through Ansible?
> >
> > Cheers.
> >
> > On Mon 08/28/17 09:22PM EDT, Ronald P Guilmet wrote:
> > > I was asked to provide a blurb of the upcoming talk.
> > >
> > > There is a common thing of disabling SELinux and continuing on. This,
> > > however, is not best practice in production. SELinux solves a particular
> > > problem. Think of it as an application firewall. If your server is
> > > compromised by an exploit for httpd or sftp, for example, that exploit
> > will
> > > have access to anything that service owns. We will look at how a (type)
> > > context is assigned to a service or directory allowing or denying access.
> > > I'm not big on slides, so I plan to do most of this from the keyboard.
> > >
> > > Enjoy
> > >
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