• taladar@sh.itjust.works
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    2 months ago

    In what way does selinux allow your users to lock themselves out of their own home directories in a way that the admin can not fix?

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      2 months ago

      SElinux is a “global ACL.” You can stop root from doing anything you like with it. Usually by accident and without realizing it’s been done in my experience…

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        2 months ago

        No, that is just not true. You can stop root from doing things without a reboot with SELinux but encrypting something with a password root does not know actually does stop them from doing it at all short of a brute force attack on the encryption.

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          2 months ago

          That’s true - you can often recover a bad ACL. I was thinking more of the “niche use case” where separating duties and restricting root are concerned.

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            2 months ago

            Oh, I was specifically thinking that admins that have users either competent enough not to forget/lose their passwords or mature enough not to whine to the admin when that causes the loss of all their files are pretty niche.