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SubjectRe: Upstream first policy

* Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

> On Mon, 8 Mar 2010, Alan Cox wrote:
> >
> > man restorecond
>
> I know. I also sometimes sit through minutes of "let's relabel the system,
> because you've booted a kernel without selinux support".

I've had selinux relabeling wait times of an hour or two too, on a
sufficiently large filesystem.

I think this hurts security far more than anything else, because it causes
people to actually _turn off the whole thing_ - so we will have less and less
security in the end.

( To use the obligatory fire door analogy: we should prefer a one inch thick
fire door that opens and closes fully automated to a five inches thick fire
door that people keep always-open with a chair. )

Ingo


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