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Paranoid Penguin - Introduction to SELinux, Part II
Understanding SELinux's security models is the first step in harnessing its power.
The comprehensive “deny-by-default” policy originally developed for Fedora Core 2, called strict, is still maintained for RHEL, Fedora and CentOS, and it can be installed instead of targeted. However, strict is not officially (commercially) supported in RHEL due to its complexity. On most systems, this policy takes a lot of manual tweaking, both by editing the files in /etc/selinux and by using the standard SELinux commands chcon, checkpolicy, getenforce, newrole, run_init, setenforce and setfiles.
Note that Tresys (www.tresys.com) maintains a suite of free, mainly GUI-based, SELinux tools that are a bit easier to use, including SePCuT, SeUser, Apol and SeAudit. These are provided by RHEL's setools RPM package. Note also that on non-Red-Hat-derived Linux distributions, SELinux policies usually reside in /etc/security/selinux.
To customize and use the strict policy on RHEL 4, see Russell Coker's tutorial “Introduction to SELinux on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4” (see Resources). You need to install the package selinux-policy-strict, available in Fedora's rawhide repository (the selinux-policy-strict package in Fedora Core 5 or 6 may also work in RHEL 4).
It's also possible, of course, to develop and enable your own SELinux policies from scratch, though doing that is well beyond the scope of this article. In fact, entire books have been written on this topic. See Resources for information on SELinux policy creation and customization.
And with that, I hope you're off to a good start with SELinux. Be safe!
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SELinux Simplified: Red Hat's Targeted Policy
The section "SELinux Simplified: Red Hat's Targeted Policy" is maddeningly unspecific. I wish that in this section an otherwise clear article had explained matters at a sufficient depth for a reader to understand precisely what the targeted policy does and does not allow.
Agreed
Agreed, rmlynch. I suppose defaulting to "use the SELinux policy GUI" was fitting for the title of the article, "SELinux Simplified". You could have enlightened many readers and saved a few pages in the magazine by just posting the link to RedHat Enterprise SELinux Guide.