SELinux Tutorials: Episode 3 - Managing and Escalating Users in SELinux

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When a Red Hat Enterprise Linux system is installed, SELinux is in Enforcing mode, the targeted policy is in place, and all user accounts are unconfined. As a result, a limited set of applications are constrained in what they can access, but users are only constrained by regular Linux file permissions and ownership.

Even though users are not confined out of the box, SELinux offers tools...

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