[ubuntu-hardened] Correctly Enabling SELinux on Intrepid

[Kees Cook]

Hi Darren,

On Sun, Apr 05, 2009 at 04:35:45PM +0100, Darren McGuicken wrote:
> * Aaron Toponce (atoponce at ubuntu.com) wrote:
> > SELinux is massively and horribly broken on Ubuntu 8.10. I've spent
> > countless hours trying to get it to work, all wasted. If you must run
> > SELinux, I'd install Fedora.
> 
> Sent in December, is this (still) accurate for Intrepid?  And if so,
> what's the forecast for Jaunty?  I'd like to start teaching myself
> SELinux in as practical a manner as possible but completely abandoning
> my OS of choice seems like rather a big step...

It should be in much better shape for Jaunty; please install the Beta and
"sudo apt-get install selinux" to try it out.  Tresys has been working on a
number of the packages this cycle.

-Kees

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Kees Cook
Ubuntu Security Team