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December 9, 2008  12:47 AM

SELinux on Ubuntu



Posted by: Xjlittle
centos, linux security, red hat, selinux, ubuntu

The other day after installing Ubuntu on one of my test machines I noticed that there was an ls -Z command which shows various selinux information about files and directories. Running this command however gave some strange output, primarily ? marks. I thought this was a little strange but had...

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November 21, 2008  8:28 PM

SELinux and what I’ve learned in the last two days..



Posted by: Xjlittle
centos, getsebool, Linux, selinux, selinux apache, selinux httpd, selinux mysql, selinux nfs, setsebool

I am bringing up a new Virtual Host with VMs of MySQL, music-repo and a webserver. All of these are on CentOS with SELinux enabled. No, I'm not a glutton for punishments using SELinux for all of these machines that are interconnected to each other. I believe the time is coming when organizations...

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November 14, 2008  3:26 PM

Application Whitelisting for Window..or is it SELinux



Posted by: Xjlittle
anti-virus, Linux, malware, root kit, rootkit, Security, selinux, whitelisting

I recently read an article in eWeek that talked extensively about Application Whitelisting. The more of the article that I read this seems to be nothing more than SELinux on Windows. The Windows people are looking to lock down their machines because of the horrendous numbers of viruses, trojans...

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November 5, 2008  2:56 PM

Maintaining your sanity with SELinux



Posted by: Xjlittle
centos, chcon, linux security, red hat, restorecon, sealert, Security, selinux, setroubleshoot

Yes I know..everyone wants to turn off selinux. The Notes Domino people even tell you to turn off selinux before installing Domino. While this is probably a good idea for them in normal server cases it is maybe not such a good idea under normal circumstances. SeLinux is another excellent layer...

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