[Cialug] SELinux

[Dave Hala]

I feel your pain bro.

On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 1:50 PM Todd Walton <tdwalton at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 10:56 AM Dave Hala <dave at 58ghz.net> wrote:
>
> > That's the rub with most of the documentation. Especially stuff like
> > SeLinux. It's written referencing all this underlying stuff that only
> > someone who works writing code in the user/kernel space understands.
> >
>
> My problem with SELinux is that the packages on my system install *59*
> different commands. 35 of them start with 'se', where 'se' stands for
> selinux, 4 of which start with se where it does *not* stand for selinux
> (such as "setfiles"), and 19 others that start with "check", "get",
> "match", "audit", "fix", "find", and other things. Why is it necessary to
> have 59 different commands to manage an SELinux system? And how am I
> supposed to discover which command I need? If I did "se<tab><tab>" and
> found "setfiles", I wouldn't guess that that's an SELinux command. And
> there are over a 1000 man pages! Granted, many of those are probably for
> xyzproduct-sepolicy-files, and not central to managing SELinux, but even if
> the true number is 500 or even 200... wow!
>
> That's my problem, personally. I wanna be able to use apropos and
> bash-completion to figure stuff out on the fly. I can't realistically do
> that with SELinux.
>
> --
> Todd
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