[Ubuntu-SG] Any SELinux Conflicts With Firefox, BitTorrent and Pidgin?

[Tom Goh]

Ubuntu uses AppArmor instead of SELinux.  Little easier than SELinux but 
I think active development has stopped. Maybe Ubuntu will pick it up.

sudo apparmor_status

Tom

On Tuesday 17,August,2010 11:21 PM, Muhammad Heidir wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 14:37 +0800, Wilson Jason wrote:
>> thank you so much for the help! I should have sent a quick e-mail
>> saying that I have taken care of the problem.
>>
>> I found that I had synaptic open and it was downloading that was
>> causing interference,
>>
>> than I killed all apt get and get all aptitude and killed all dpkg I
>> did this under root briefly than got out of root.
>>
>> So now I am happy with my vcd, dvd region free, and I have xmms
>> version 1 all doing well on the desktop.
>>
>> I am really happy to be using ubuntu again. It is honestly such a good
>> O.S and software that I would not mind paying for it.
>>
>> If I add SELinux for security are you aware of any conflicts with
>> firefox, bittorrent or pidgit?
>>
>> Thanks again you are definitely the ubuntu guru!
>>
>>
>
> Hi Wilson,
>
> Give yourself a pat on the back for resolving the problem! Hope its
> going to be included in your Lesson Learned journal...
>
> About SELinux, I'm not entirely sure about conflicts with Firefox and
> such when SELinux is enabled.
>
> I'm cc'ing this to the mailing list so that other Gurus can take a look
> at it.
>
> Guys, some help here!
>
> Muhammad Heidir
>
> Launchpad: ~heidir
> Team Ubuntu Singapore
>
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