Horked-up system, Fedora 11

[Ed]

On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 6:35 PM, Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-10-15 at 07:27 -0700, Vaughn Treude wrote:
>> On 10/14/2009 10:27 AM, Craig White wrote:
>> > On Wed, 2009-10-14 at 06:47 -0700, Vaughn Treude wrote:
>> >
>> >>> I have found SELinux to be much better in Fedora 11 that the problem
>> >>> that it was in F10. Eventually you want to try running with it
>> >>> enforcing.
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>       I need to research SELinux; I'm not very familiar with what it
>> >> does.
>> >>       Thanks for the feedback.
>> >>
>> > ----
>> > one of the reasons I suggested that you run 'fixfiles onboot' is that
>> > when you create files on other computers or in locations other than
>> > where they are stored, they will always have the wrong security context.
>> > 'fixfiles onboot' does a complete relabel of your files.
>> >
>> >
>> Sounds like I may also need to do this if I reboot in Centos and do
>> anything with the Fedora partition, and the reboot in Fedora. Am I right?
>> Vaughn
> ----
> probably need to be more specific on how mounts are done in both.
>
> security contexts are different throughout the file system so if you
> relabel the Fedora partition when you boot CentOS or vice versa, you are
> likely to cause some real headaches depending of course what is being
> mounted and where it's being mounted.
>
> Craig
>

Pardon the late reply - If you want to explore SELinux by way of
virtualization, I understand that SELinux works with KVM while it may
not with other virtualization systems. Any confirmations out there?

Ed