On 7/24/24 12:36, Tom Lane wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org> writes:
>> In my experience, the tests (both the old and the proposed new) only
>> work on Red Hat-like platforms. I had also tried on Debian but decided
>> that it won't work.
>
> Yeah, Red Hat is pretty much the only vendor that has pushed SELinux
> far enough to be usable by non-wizards. I'm not surprised if there
> are outright bugs in other distros' versions of it, as AFAIK
> nobody else turns it on by default.
I tried some years ago to get it working on my Debian-derived Linux Mint
desktop and gave up. I think SELinux is a really good tool on RHEL
variants, but I don't think many people use it on anything else. As Tom
says, perhaps there are a few wizards out there though...
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