Ubuntu SELinux status.

[Marc Deslauriers]

On Thu, 2009-10-22 at 14:34 -0400, Hal Burgiss wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 06:26:43PM +0100, Avi Greenbury wrote:
> > > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SELinux
> > > 
> > > as the first hit ...
> > > 
> > 
> > In general, the distro's own page is a pretty poor place to go to find
> > out how well they've implemented something. The users of that feature
> > under that distro are a far better bet.
> > Unfortunately, I'm not one of those.
> 
> My impression is Canonical is moving away from SELinux and adopting apparmor
> in its place. Not to say you can't make it work, but I'd suspect some hair
> pulling, etc at some point. 
> 

Although AppArmor is the MAC system that protects the default desktop,
SELinux is available for installation and is maintained by the security
team, the community, and Tresys.

Marc.