Re: [arch-general] base stuff

2011-04-10 Thread Nicky726
Dne So 9. dubna 2011 00:02:20 Thomas S Hatch napsal(a): > On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 3:55 PM, Allan McRae wrote: > > Hmm... I thought it was a a patch. Was it declared unstable/unsupported > > upstream then? There was something weird like that. > > > > Anyway, I still see nothing wrong with creati

Re: [arch-general] base stuff

2011-04-09 Thread Thomas S Hatch
On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 11:56 AM, Yaro Kasear wrote: > On Saturday, April 09, 2011 12:54:23 Thomas S Hatch wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 11:49 AM, Yaro Kasear wrote: > > > On Saturday, April 09, 2011 12:01:04 Thomas S Hatch wrote: > > > > On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 9:18 AM, Yaro Kasear > wrote:

Re: [arch-general] base stuff

2011-04-09 Thread Yaro Kasear
On Saturday, April 09, 2011 12:54:23 Thomas S Hatch wrote: > On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 11:49 AM, Yaro Kasear wrote: > > On Saturday, April 09, 2011 12:01:04 Thomas S Hatch wrote: > > > On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 9:18 AM, Yaro Kasear wrote: > > > > On Friday, April 08, 2011 14:29:34 Heiko Baums wrote: >

Re: [arch-general] base stuff

2011-04-09 Thread Thomas S Hatch
On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 11:49 AM, Yaro Kasear wrote: > On Saturday, April 09, 2011 12:01:04 Thomas S Hatch wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 9:18 AM, Yaro Kasear wrote: > > > On Friday, April 08, 2011 14:29:34 Heiko Baums wrote: > > > > Am Fri, 8 Apr 2011 10:55:16 -0600 > > > > > > > > schrieb Th

Re: [arch-general] base stuff

2011-04-09 Thread Yaro Kasear
On Saturday, April 09, 2011 12:01:04 Thomas S Hatch wrote: > On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 9:18 AM, Yaro Kasear wrote: > > On Friday, April 08, 2011 14:29:34 Heiko Baums wrote: > > > Am Fri, 8 Apr 2011 10:55:16 -0600 > > > > > > schrieb Thomas S Hatch : > > > > Yaro makes many good points, I think that

Re: [arch-general] base stuff

2011-04-09 Thread Thomas S Hatch
On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 9:18 AM, Yaro Kasear wrote: > On Friday, April 08, 2011 14:29:34 Heiko Baums wrote: > > Am Fri, 8 Apr 2011 10:55:16 -0600 > > > > schrieb Thomas S Hatch : > > > Yaro makes many good points, I think that my recommendation would > be > > > to allow someone to maintain support

Re: [arch-general] base stuff

2011-04-09 Thread Yaro Kasear
On Friday, April 08, 2011 14:29:34 Heiko Baums wrote: > Am Fri, 8 Apr 2011 10:55:16 -0600 > > schrieb Thomas S Hatch : > > Yaro makes many good points, I think that my recommendation would be > > to allow someone to maintain support for SELinux in community. If > > SELinux support is deemed somet

Re: [arch-general] base stuff

2011-04-09 Thread Rogutės Sparnuotos
Yaro Kasear (2011-04-08 11:32): > > > > > So in general what is the benefits / costs for SELinux? > > > > Benefits: Probably the most effective MAC for Linux. Once it runs it's > arguably not too hard to allow/deny certain access due to some third party > tools simplifying things a bit. You c

Re: [arch-general] base stuff

2011-04-08 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 6:02 AM, Thomas S Hatch wrote: > On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 3:55 PM, Allan McRae wrote: >> Anyway, I still see nothing wrong with creating SELinux packages and having >> them available in [community], although I would like to see a separate repo >> at least for the start. >> >>

Re: [arch-general] base stuff

2011-04-08 Thread Thomas S Hatch
On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 3:55 PM, Allan McRae wrote: > On 09/04/11 00:53, Grigorios Bouzakis wrote: > >> Allan McRae wrote: >> >>> On 09/04/11 00:24, Grigorios Bouzakis wrote: >>> Nicky726 wrote: > > If I may add more to this SELinux related thread, I would like to aply > for

Re: [arch-general] base stuff

2011-04-08 Thread Allan McRae
On 09/04/11 00:53, Grigorios Bouzakis wrote: Allan McRae wrote: On 09/04/11 00:24, Grigorios Bouzakis wrote: Nicky726 wrote: If I may add more to this SELinux related thread, I would like to aply for TU and bring SELinux packages to community in the summer, to make using SELinux easier. I

Re: [arch-general] base stuff

2011-04-08 Thread Jelle van der Waa
On Fri, 2011-04-08 at 16:08 -0400, Jeremiah Dodds wrote: > On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 3:29 PM, Heiko Baums wrote: > > > > I'd prefer a separate [selinux] repo. So that people know what they are > > doing. > > > > > +1 from a users perspective, the changes in a machine's setup from non-SE to > SE are

Re: [arch-general] base stuff

2011-04-08 Thread Jeremiah Dodds
On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 3:29 PM, Heiko Baums wrote: > > I'd prefer a separate [selinux] repo. So that people know what they are > doing. > > +1 from a users perspective, the changes in a machine's setup from non-SE to SE are non-trivial to the point that a separate repo would make things much easie

Re: [arch-general] base stuff

2011-04-08 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Fri, 8 Apr 2011 10:55:16 -0600 schrieb Thomas S Hatch : > Yaro makes many good points, I think that my recommendation would be > to allow someone to maintain support for SELinux in community. If > SELinux support is deemed something that would be a good idea to move > to core in the future than

Re: [arch-general] base stuff

2011-04-08 Thread Thomas S Hatch
On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 10:36 AM, Yaro Kasear wrote: > On Friday, April 08, 2011 05:43:51 Kaiting Chen wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 3:44 AM, Jelle van der Waa > wrote: > > > And on a side note, I don't like archlinux forcing users to use SELinux > > > because users should have a choice to us

Re: [arch-general] base stuff

2011-04-08 Thread Yaro Kasear
On Friday, April 08, 2011 05:43:51 Kaiting Chen wrote: > On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 3:44 AM, Jelle van der Waa wrote: > > And on a side note, I don't like archlinux forcing users to use SELinux > > because users should have a choice to use any MAC software they want. > > That's why AppArmor /Tomoyo ar

Re: [arch-general] base stuff

2011-04-08 Thread Yaro Kasear
> > So in general what is the benefits / costs for SELinux? > Benefits: Probably the most effective MAC for Linux. Once it runs it's arguably not too hard to allow/deny certain access due to some third party tools simplifying things a bit. You can't deny the NSA-grade security it brings whic

Re: [arch-general] base stuff

2011-04-08 Thread Thomas S Hatch
On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 8:17 AM, Nicky726 wrote: > Dne pátek 08 dubna 2011 12:43:51 Kaiting Chen napsal(a): > > On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 3:44 AM, Jelle van der Waa > wrote: > > > And on a side note, I don't like archlinux forcing users to use SELinux > > > because users should have a choice to use

Re: [arch-general] base stuff

2011-04-08 Thread Grigorios Bouzakis
Allan McRae wrote: > On 09/04/11 00:24, Grigorios Bouzakis wrote: >> Nicky726 wrote: >>> >>> If I may add more to this SELinux related thread, I would like to aply for >>> TU >>> and bring SELinux packages to community in the summer, to make using SELinux >>> easier. >>> >> >> I dont think thats

Re: [arch-general] base stuff

2011-04-08 Thread Allan McRae
On 09/04/11 00:24, Grigorios Bouzakis wrote: Nicky726 wrote: If I may add more to this SELinux related thread, I would like to aply for TU and bring SELinux packages to community in the summer, to make using SELinux easier. I dont think thats gonna work since you'll have to provide the same

Re: [arch-general] base stuff

2011-04-08 Thread Grigorios Bouzakis
Nicky726 wrote: > > If I may add more to this SELinux related thread, I would like to aply for TU > and bring SELinux packages to community in the summer, to make using SELinux > easier. > I dont think thats gonna work since you'll have to provide the same packages as in [core] built differently

Re: [arch-general] base stuff

2011-04-08 Thread Nicky726
Dne pátek 08 dubna 2011 12:43:51 Kaiting Chen napsal(a): > On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 3:44 AM, Jelle van der Waa wrote: > > And on a side note, I don't like archlinux forcing users to use SELinux > > because users should have a choice to use any MAC software they want. > > That's why AppArmor /Tomoyo

Re: [arch-general] base stuff

2011-04-08 Thread Kaiting Chen
On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 7:32 AM, Allan McRae wrote: > In my opinion, SELinux would be better supported in a user provided repo. > Work with the guy (whose name I can not remember...) who has done an > awesome job getting this all done and into the AUR. > Okay I don't know a thing about SELinux b

Re: [arch-general] base stuff

2011-04-08 Thread Allan McRae
On 08/04/11 20:43, Kaiting Chen wrote: On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 3:44 AM, Jelle van der Waa wrote: And on a side note, I don't like archlinux forcing users to use SELinux because users should have a choice to use any MAC software they want. That's why AppArmor /Tomoyo are nicer solutions cause th

Re: [arch-general] base stuff

2011-04-08 Thread Kaiting Chen
On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 3:44 AM, Jelle van der Waa wrote: > And on a side note, I don't like archlinux forcing users to use SELinux > because users should have a choice to use any MAC software they want. > That's why AppArmor /Tomoyo are nicer solutions cause they don't require > recompiling of pa

Re: [arch-general] base stuff

2011-04-08 Thread Divan Santana
On Friday 08 April 2011 09:44:14 Jelle van der Waa wrote: > SELinux would maybe bring extra security too archlinux, but what I don't > see in this thread is how much harder / more bugs it would make for > developers/TU's to package if you use SELinux. Good point. > So in general what is the bene

Re: [arch-general] base stuff

2011-04-08 Thread Jelle van der Waa
On Thu, 2011-04-07 at 22:31 +0300, Grigorios Bouzakis wrote: > Thomas S Hatch wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 12:51 PM, Grigorios Bouzakis > > wrote: > > > >> I guess you mean http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.arch.general/32759 > > > > Thanks for the link, I did not want to bring up SELinux

Re: [arch-general] base stuff

2011-04-07 Thread Grigorios Bouzakis
Thomas S Hatch wrote: > On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 12:51 PM, Grigorios Bouzakis wrote: > >> I guess you mean http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.arch.general/32759 > > Thanks for the link, I did not want to bring up SELinux yet, because I will > not be getting to it for a few months, but this will help

Re: [arch-general] base stuff

2011-04-07 Thread Thomas S Hatch
On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 12:51 PM, Grigorios Bouzakis wrote: > Yaro Kasear wrote: > > On Wednesday, April 06, 2011 18:13:04 Grigorios Bouzakis wrote: > >> Thomas S Hatch wrote: > >> > > >> > Yes the systemd topic keeps popping up, right now we don't know > >> > if certain upstream changes are going

Re: [arch-general] base stuff

2011-04-07 Thread Grigorios Bouzakis
Yaro Kasear wrote: > On Wednesday, April 06, 2011 18:13:04 Grigorios Bouzakis wrote: >> Thomas S Hatch wrote: >> > >> > Yes the systemd topic keeps popping up, right now we don't know >> > if certain upstream changes are going to force Arch into using systemd > or >> > not. >> >> I dont think s

Re: [arch-general] base stuff (was: Change Arch's default crond)

2011-04-07 Thread Divan Santana
On Thursday 07 April 2011 18:08:39 Yaro Kasear wrote: > Selinux is another unneeded thing, but even worse is that it practically > requires a doctorate in computer science to manipulate. Can't deny its > security, though. +1 to leaving it out of Arch, not that anyone's asking > Arch to. I don't

Re: [arch-general] base stuff (was: Change Arch's default crond)

2011-04-07 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Thu, 7 Apr 2011 11:08:39 -0500 schrieb Yaro Kasear : > Selinux is another unneeded thing, but even worse is that it > practically requires a doctorate in computer science to manipulate. > Can't deny its security, though. +1 to leaving it out of Arch, not > that anyone's asking Arch to. For peo

Re: [arch-general] base stuff (was: Change Arch's default crond)

2011-04-07 Thread Yaro Kasear
On Wednesday, April 06, 2011 18:13:04 Grigorios Bouzakis wrote: > Thomas S Hatch wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 4:16 PM, Grigorios Bouzakis wrote: > >> Thomas S Hatch wrote: > >> > I am saving the "include SELINUX support in base for a latter date" > >> > > >> > my understanding though is tha

Re: [arch-general] base stuff

2011-04-07 Thread Thomas S Hatch
On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 2:08 AM, Thomas Bächler wrote: > Am 07.04.2011 04:36, schrieb Thomas S Hatch: > > I like to hear that Tom! > > Unfortunately many people think that having SELinux compiled in means > that > > it is running, having SELinux compiled into the core utils and the kernel > > but

Re: [arch-general] base stuff (was: Change Arch's default crond)

2011-04-07 Thread Divan Santana
On Thursday 07 April 2011 00:25:42 Thomas S Hatch wrote: > As for adding SELinux support in base but keeping it turned off by default, > +1 +1 -- Divan Santana

Re: [arch-general] base stuff (was: Change Arch's default crond)

2011-04-07 Thread Divan Santana
On Thursday 07 April 2011 00:25:42 Thomas S Hatch wrote: > As for adding SELinux support in base but keeping it turned off by default, > +1 +1 -- Divan Santana

Re: [arch-general] base stuff (was: Change Arch's default crond)

2011-04-07 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Wed, 6 Apr 2011 21:22:14 -0600 Thomas S Hatch wrote: > I think that Arch would benefit from inducing SELinux as an option > because it expands the venues available for Arch Linux systems, I > also think that inclusion in base of SELinux requires a minimal > amount of maintenance and SELinux is

Re: [arch-general] base stuff

2011-04-07 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 07.04.2011 04:36, schrieb Thomas S Hatch: > I like to hear that Tom! > Unfortunately many people think that having SELinux compiled in means that > it is running, having SELinux compiled into the core utils and the kernel > but leaving it turned off has 0 negative effect on the system. If that

Re: [arch-general] base stuff (was: Change Arch's default crond)

2011-04-06 Thread Thomas S Hatch
On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 9:01 PM, DrCR wrote: > Could you guys elaborate on why you dislike selinux. I would > appreciate it. Do you prefer AppArmor, or do you dislike that as well? > > > On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 7:13 PM, Grigorios Bouzakis > wrote: > >> As for adding SELinux support in base but kee

Re: [arch-general] base stuff (was: Change Arch's default crond)

2011-04-06 Thread DrCR
Could you guys elaborate on why you dislike selinux. I would appreciate it. Do you prefer AppArmor, or do you dislike that as well? On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 7:13 PM, Grigorios Bouzakis wrote: >> As for adding SELinux support in base but keeping it turned off by default, >> +1 > > Although this isn

Re: [arch-general] base stuff (was: Change Arch's default crond)

2011-04-06 Thread Thomas S Hatch
On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 7:53 PM, Tom Gundersen wrote: > On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 6:46 AM, Thomas S Hatch wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 4:32 PM, Heiko Baums > wrote: > > > >> Am Wed, 6 Apr 2011 16:25:42 -0600 > >> schrieb Thomas S Hatch : > >> > >> > As for adding SELinux support in base but ke

Re: [arch-general] base stuff (was: Change Arch's default crond)

2011-04-06 Thread Ángel Velásquez
2011/4/6 Tom Gundersen : > On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 6:46 AM, Thomas S Hatch wrote: >> On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 4:32 PM, Heiko Baums wrote: >> >>> Am Wed, 6 Apr 2011 16:25:42 -0600 >>> schrieb Thomas S Hatch : >>> >>> > As for adding SELinux support in base but keeping it turned off by >>> > default,

Re: [arch-general] base stuff (was: Change Arch's default crond)

2011-04-06 Thread Tom Gundersen
On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 6:46 AM, Thomas S Hatch wrote: > On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 4:32 PM, Heiko Baums wrote: > >> Am Wed, 6 Apr 2011 16:25:42 -0600 >> schrieb Thomas S Hatch : >> >> > As for adding SELinux support in base but keeping it turned off by >> > default, +1 >> >> Then you mean adding it t

Re: [arch-general] base stuff (was: Change Arch's default crond)

2011-04-06 Thread Grigorios Bouzakis
Thomas S Hatch wrote: > On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 4:16 PM, Grigorios Bouzakis wrote: > >> Thomas S Hatch wrote: >> > >> > I am saving the "include SELINUX support in base for a latter date" >> > >> > my understanding though is that the stated position of Arch was "no >> > systemd" >> >> s/was/is/g >>

Re: [arch-general] base stuff (was: Change Arch's default crond)

2011-04-06 Thread Thomas S Hatch
On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 4:32 PM, Heiko Baums wrote: > Am Wed, 6 Apr 2011 16:25:42 -0600 > schrieb Thomas S Hatch : > > > As for adding SELinux support in base but keeping it turned off by > > default, +1 > > Then you mean adding it to [core]. (base) is supposed to be installed > on every system. A

Re: [arch-general] base stuff (was: Change Arch's default crond)

2011-04-06 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Wed, 6 Apr 2011 16:25:42 -0600 schrieb Thomas S Hatch : > As for adding SELinux support in base but keeping it turned off by > default, +1 Then you mean adding it to [core]. (base) is supposed to be installed on every system. And SELinux is definitely not necessary for a minimal base Linux ins

Re: [arch-general] base stuff (was: Change Arch's default crond)

2011-04-06 Thread Thomas S Hatch
On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 4:16 PM, Grigorios Bouzakis wrote: > Thomas S Hatch wrote: > > > > I am saving the "include SELINUX support in base for a latter date" > > > > my understanding though is that the stated position of Arch was "no > > systemd" > > s/was/is/g > > That is also my understanding in

[arch-general] base stuff (was: Change Arch's default crond)

2011-04-06 Thread Grigorios Bouzakis
Thomas S Hatch wrote: > > I am saving the "include SELINUX support in base for a latter date" > > my understanding though is that the stated position of Arch was "no > systemd" s/was/is/g That is also my understanding in regards to selinux. Although i am not familiar with "stated positions" about