SELinux at Heart of New Hacker-Resistant Infrastructure | Linux Today

SELinux at Heart of New Hacker-Resistant Infrastructure

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Paul Shread
Jul 2, 2015

The ecosystem is based on Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux), but it adds role-based access control with a policy for each role, so no one can get to the system root and the root can’t see user data.

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Paul Shread

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