Archive for May, 2009

Apache/SELinux plus announced

by James Morris |  Wednesday, May 27th, 2009

KaiGai Kohei has announced the release of Apache/SELinux plus, a module which allows the Apache web server to launch web applications in specific SELinux security contexts. It will be packaged in the upcoming Fedora 11 as mod_selinux.

SELinux Developer Summit 2009 Announced

by James Morris |  Saturday, May 23rd, 2009

The 2009 SELinux Developer Summit has been announced, and will take place on the 20th of September in Portland, Oregon as part of LinuxCon. The Call for Participation calls for talk and developer session proposals, with the primary topics of extensibility and usability. All those planning to attend are asked to join the event mailing list so the organizers can estimated numbers and provide any event updates.

SEAdmin: New SELinux GUI Management Tool

by James Morris |  Friday, May 8th, 2009

A new graphical management application for SELinux called SEAdmin has been announced on the ubuntu-hardened mailing list. SEAdmin, developed in Mono and GTK#, is intended to be used with any distribution, and currently works under Ubuntu 8.04 and Fedora 10. More information, including screenshots, may be found at the project site.