Jeff Sheltren

Once upon a time, many years ago, I wrote a blog post titled Stop Disabling SELinux! as a response to seeing many users, hosting companies, and development shops disabling SELinux as a first resort without any consideration of the increased security it was bringing them. The post outlines -- in a few easy steps -- how to configure SELinux for a common Drupal setup. But it's applicable to any LAMP application (plus memcached). I'm still...

Jeff Sheltren

I see a lot of people coming by #centos and similar channels asking for help when they’re experiencing a problem with their Linux system. It amazes me how many people describe their problem, and then say something along the lines of, “and I disabled SELinux...”. Most of the time SELinux has nothing to do with the problem, and if SELinux is the cause of the problem, why would you throw out the extra security by...