MerriLUG, 20 July 2006: Dan Walsh on SElinux for Dummies

[Ted Roche]

Dan Walsh, Lead Engineer for SELinux at RedHat, gave a great  
presentation to the MerriLUG crowd last night at Martha's Exchange.  
Twenty-nine people attended, making this July meeting one of the most  
popular of the year, a real rarity for the summer months and an  
indication of how interest the Linux community is in this topic.

Dan works with People-Who-Cannot-Be-Named on the more secure aspects  
of SELinux, but also provides the utilities and documentation for the  
SELinux functionality in the RedHat and Fedora product lines. He  
presented a humorous high-level view of what SELinux does (protect  
YOUR data from evil System functions taken over by BadGuys) what the  
terminology meant, how it is implemented, common troubleshooting  
techniques, utilities currently available, and gave us a sneak peek  
at some of the GUI tools that will be available in later versions of  
RHEL. Dan will attempt to provide us with slides and we'll post a  
link to them when they are available.

Dan blogs at danwalsh.livejournal.com. He recommended several  
websites, which we should find in the slides, but iirc, included,  
http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/ for background history, and the fedora- 
selinux mailing list at http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora- 
selinux-list for questions and support.

Heather and Jim showed what a great team of volunteers runs MerriLUG  
by filling in for Ken's absence by ensuring the space was available,  
securing a great speaker, getting the announcements out, and  
providing some goodies to raffle.  Thanks to the MerriLUG team and to  
Dan for a great meeting!


Ted Roche
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