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From: Dominick Grift <domg472@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 12:24 PM
Subject: Re: allow_exec{mem,stack} default to on?
To: fedora-selinux-list@redhat.com

On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 01:48:03PM +0100, Klaus Lichtenwalder wrote:

> Hi,
>
> just checked to freshly installed Fedora 12 machines, and found
> allow_execmem --> on
> allow_execstack --> on
> Is there a reason for this, as the comment in semanage strongly
> discourages it? Or did I install a package that switches those booleans?

By default SELinux is pretty permissive (much is allowed). However you can very much tighten the configuration.

A few things to do:

map all your Linux logins to confined SELinux users
disable the unconfined module
lock-down your booleans
...and much more...

>
> Klaus
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