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SELinux in Ubuntu?

Asked by Hadmut Danisch

Hi,

what is the current state (time schedule) of SELinux integration into Ubuntu?
I could not find any precise and up-to-date information.

There is a wiki page about, but seems to be orphaned since 2005.

Some time ago, the upstart program was patched to perform SELinux
startup as init does in sysv, but that seems to have been removed again.

Will SELinux ever be officially supported by Ubuntu?

regards

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Ralph Janke (txwikinger) said : 		#1

Have you looked here: http://www.cse.psu.edu/~lstclair/Howtos/selinux_on_ubuntu.html

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Hadmut Danisch (hadmut) said : 		#2

On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 02:38:34PM -0000, txwikinger wrote:
> Your support request #3598 on Ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+ticket/3598
>
> Status: Open => Answered
>
> txwikinger proposed the following answer:
> Have you looked here:
> http://www.cse.psu.edu/~lstclair/Howtos/selinux_on_ubuntu.html

Sure. It says:

   First things first - this HOWTO doesn't work. If you follow it, as
   of 1 Aug 2006, you won't get a working system.

regards
Hadmut

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Hadmut Danisch (hadmut) said : 		#3

Correct. Following the instructions on that website does not lead to a
running system.

Under Debian the init process of sysvinit does the job of initializing
the SELinux system.

Ubuntu's upstart lacks that code.

regards
Hadmut

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Bruno Costacurta (pubmb01) said : 		#4

Also package 'selinux-default-policy' failed to install under Ubuntu :

sudo apt-get install selinux-policy-default
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
selinux-policy-default
...etc...
/usr/sbin/load_policy: Can't load policy: No such file or directory
make: *** [tmp/load] Error 2

Bye,
Bruno

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