November 17, 2006

Security Enhanced Linux GUI Frontend


Just a quicky about SE (Security Enhanced) Linux. SE Linux provides mandantory access control using LSM. (Linux Security Modules. Red Hat and Fedora provides quite a few security policy configurations by default. You can read more about SELinux here at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SELinux.

However, a few yeas ago, setting up SE Linux policies could be a daunting task, so I guess one or two ambitious sys admins got fed up and promised themselves to never ever use it again.

Today, you can just open up the GUI and start enforcing your protocols and services, such as ftp, kerberos, cron, named, nfs, samba, squid, sasl, ssl and many more.

So if you have not done it already, just do it.

# system-config-securitylevel