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Why do we hate SELinux? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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This is not a troll post. I'm genuinely confused as to why SELinux gets so much of hate. I have to say, I feel that it's a fairly robust system. The times when I had issues with it, I created a custom policy in the relevant directory and things were fixed. Maybe a couple of modules here and there at the most. It took me about 15 minutes max to figure out what permissions were being blocked and copy the commands from. Red Hat's guide.

So yeah, why do we hate SELinux?

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[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Generally, we don't. I can count on one hand the number of times I've had to mess with it. Two times I had to use restorecon, and two times I had to loosen permissions for an HTTP server. Literally everything else has worked without issue.

I know some people love to bitch and moan about it, but honestly I have to ask what they're doing, because I've had zero non-trivial problems.