December 2008
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Fedora Weekly News#155 - Development
=== The PATH to CAPP Audits ===
Some tough questioning about the purpose and usefulness of the Common Criteria for Information Technology Security Evaluation (CC)[1] was dished out to the maintainers of shadow-utils (the family of secure utilities for manipulating user accounts and passwords) when it appeared that the need to audit specific behaviors was causing some awkward constraints in OS...
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Comprehensive SELinux guide for Fedora 10
Murray McAllister has produced a very useful “Security-Enhanced Linux User Guide for Fedora 10”. This integrates a lot of information which was scattered around. Essential reading for anyone running a modern system.
1. http://docs.fedoraproject.org/selinux-user-guide/f10/en-US/ .
Fedora Weekly News#154 - Development
== Developments == In this section the people, personalities and debates on the @fedora-devel mailing list are summarized. Contributing Writer: Oisin Feeley === Python Bump to 2.6 in Rawhide === The success of Fedora’s dogged persistence in pursuing an “upstream all possible patches” methodology was anecdotally highlighted during a thread in which Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams...