Security: The adventure continues — SELinux
An advantage of upgrading to the latest Fedora Core version (5) is the latest and greatest in SELinux advances. I mentioned in a previous article that a plethora of Linux kernel improvements were available, and SELinux was one of them. Created by the NSA, it now comes by default with the free version of Red Hat: Fedora. Figuring out the many pieces of it and its vast capabilities are a bit of a mystery, but once that is done, it is very powerful.
Security Enhanced Linux (SELinux) is “an implementation of mandatory access control in the Linux kernel using the Linux Security Modules framework”. This is in opposition to a regular Linux implementation, where a discretionary access control model is used.
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