New SELinux GUI tool - SEAdmin

[liori909]

Hi all...

I am new to Fedroa 10 and to SELinux.
After a looking in SELinux forums I saw that only Fedora has a GUI for SELinux... Lucky us.

After a looking in the web I saw nice (very cool gui style) for SELinux called SEAdmin which is general to all Linux distribution.

I installed it and it works O.K( requires mono) but I think its still can't be compare to Fedora GUI.

[harsha]

Hi liori909,

am new to fedora forums, not for linux.
Can u pls share SEAdmin installation instructions completely.

Thanks in advance.
Harsha

[YyYo]

Hi...

Instructions
1) Install mono.
2) In SEAdmin site at sourceforge, there is 2 packages to download
- Executable package
- Source code package
download the Executable package.
3) In the executable package there is a "Lib" directory, containing ConfigFile.
In this file you should supply some relevant paths.
4) switch user to root.
5) exec the command: mono SEAdmin.exe and you done.

Note: There is a .pdf tutorial and a README file which can help too.

[SlowJet]

hmmm, requiring mono for an SELinux admin tool
is like
requiring wine
to run ssh

Obviously, the author knows nothing about security, but likes easy, quick and dirty coding.
Typical geek gui practice.


So Redhat EL 6 will require the super (years with no reboot) systems and Cloud severs for ten of thousands
to reboot every time M$ net coders dream up a new api or fine another bug.
4 to10 times a year, before they can change SELinux-policy.

Yikes! Should have never been allowed in Fedora.

SJ

[YyYo]

Hi SlowJet....

I didn't understand your point about mono...
I don't think your analogy between wine and mono is correct.
wine execute programs compiled under windows and probably calling system calls.
mono execute program without platform dependencies, and without the need to recompile the programs .

There is a good tools written in python, perl, ....
In your mind, you can redirect your analogy to their too.

I think you miss the point in this discussion and I suggest you to read a little bit in mono site, before you talk about something that you don't know...

http://mono-project.com/Main_Page

[neighborlee]

Hi SlowJet....

I didn't understand your point about mono...
I don't think your analogy between wine and mono is correct.
wine execute programs compiled under windows and probably calling system calls.
mono execute program without platform dependencies, and without the need to recompile the programs .

There is a good tools written in python, perl, ....
In your mind, you can redirect your analogy to their too.

I think you miss the point in this discussion and I suggest you to read a little bit in mono site, before you talk about something that you don't know...

http://mono-project.com/Main_Page

Maybe this is a good reason:

http://www.itwire.com/content/view/25215/1090/

Others saw it coming a year'ish or so ago as well:

http://beranger.org/index.php?page=diary&2008/03/12/14/51/29-gnome-10-years-of-self-congratul

We now get some solid information about what many of us knew all along, and for which the distros we trusted linux with should have know about as well, yet all seemed to turn away.

Why were we so quick to support anything coming from REdmond ,in lieu of their track record ?

cheers
nl