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David Edge | 15 May 08:45

Microsoft GPO and SELinux

Anyone out there familiar with SELinux?  Ran across this link in a 
Microsoft newsletter where they compare Group Policy and 
SELinux.  I thought SELinux restrictions were at a deeper level.  Is 
this a valid comparison?  
http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=8903748

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Jon Reynolds | 15 May 09:03

Re: Microsoft GPO and SELinux

David Edge wrote:
> Anyone out there familiar with SELinux?  Ran across this link in a 
> Microsoft newsletter where they compare Group Policy and 
> SELinux.  I thought SELinux restrictions were at a deeper level.  Is 
> this a valid comparison?  
> http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=8903748
> 
> dedge
> 
Consider the source.

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barsalou | 15 May 17:57

Re: Microsoft GPO and SELinux

Quoting David Edge <dedge <at> alaska.net>:

> Anyone out there familiar with SELinux?  Ran across this link in a
> Microsoft newsletter where they compare Group Policy and
> SELinux.  I thought SELinux restrictions were at a deeper level.  Is
> this a valid comparison?
> http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=3D8903748
>
> dedge
>
>
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This was laughable.

They aren't doing a feature to feature comparison.  On might draw the =20
incorrect conclusion that you can't do near as much with SELinux that =20
you can do with the Windows Group policy.

Honestly, because the two OS's are so different, you wouldn't use =20
SELinux to do some of the things they are doing with the Group Policy.

So without direct conversation (written or otherwise) it would be hard =20
for someone who did not have an understanding of these two =20
technologies to do a valid comparison.

If folks are pointing to this as a good comparison, I would call them =20

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