Can I install Security-enhanced Linux on an existing Linux system?
“Yes. You actually need to have an existing Linux system. The Security-enhanced Linux distribution is source code for a modified Linux kernel and some utilities. You must have the ability to compile a kernel and also have necessary, but unmodified system packages. Our distribution is known to install on the Red Hat distribution, and has not been tested with others.” >From the NSA’s web site. R _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List – Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG’s potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.
“Yes. You actually need to have an existing Linux system. The Security-enhanced Linux distribution is source code for a modified Linux kernel and some utilities. You must have the ability to compile a kernel and also have necessary, but unmodified system packages. Our distribution is known to install on the Red Hat distribution, and has not been tested with others.” You can download it here after you read the disclaimers on the page. At least, the NSA page says you can. I assume they know whether their own product is legal or not. I am not advising you personally, because we are now in Alice-in-Wonderland upside-downness, where you can’t be sure who is who and what is what any more. Their “Linux 2.5 Kernel Summit Presentation on SELinux” is available in Postscript or PDF on this page at the bottom of the page. I do believe 2.5 is a version of the kernel SCO claims is in question. So, what is the deal? Is the government itself guilty of misappropriation of SCO IP? Heavens to Betsy! If s
Yes. You actually need to have an existing Linux system. The Security-enhanced Linux distribution is source code for a modified Linux kernel and some utilities. You must have the ability to compile a kernel and also have necessary, but unmodified system packages. Our distribution is known to install on the Red Hat distribution, and has not been tested with others. ——— What does Security-enhanced Linux give me that standard Linux can’t? The Security-enhanced Linux kernel enforces mandatory access control policies that confine user programs and system servers to the minimum amount of privilege they require to do their jobs. When confined in this way, the ability of these user programs and system daemons to cause harm when compromised (via buffer overflows or misconfigurations, for example) is reduced or eliminated. This confinement mechanism operates independently of the traditional Linux access control mechanisms. It has no concept of a “root” super-user, and does not share the we
