[roger_smith]

Sup everyone,

Just putting this out there. I'm a linux admin with a number of years of experience. If anyone is thinking about switching to, or learning Linux, you're welcome to hit me up with your questions and I'll be happy to answer them as best I can.

How about I run this offer for a week and see how it goes? If it seems positive and helpful I'll continue to do it as time allows, and maybe we'll have some other Linux fans chime in (Linux admins sharing their opinion? unpossible!) and share their view.

Looking forward to helping those who want to learn!

[misnar]

Have you ever installed Gentoo?

[roger_smith]

Have you ever installed Gentoo?

I have only worked a little with Gentoo and Arch (I in fact have an Arch project going right now as time allows), I tend to work mostly with RHEL/clones.

What're ya trying to do w/ Gentoo? I don't mind doing a little digging into something if I don't know the answer either.

[misnar]

[roger_smith]

GNU is Not Unix

:-D

[Reiko]

Got any experience with ACLs, mandatory access control and extended attributes (lsattr/chattr)?

I don't have a question for you, I'm just bored and like to tease smart people. Makes 'em smarter faster when they know what they don't know.

[roger_smith]

Got any experience with ACLs, mandatory access control and extended attributes (lsattr/chattr)?

I don't have a question for you, I'm just bored and like to tease smart people. Makes 'em smarter faster when they know what they don't know.

I do actually know some about file ACLs, SELinux and the like, although I'm a little rusty since we don't implement it :-(. But, I've worked w/ the it in the past :-D

[Reiko]

I do actually know some about file ACLs, SELinux and the like, although I'm a little rusty since we don't implement it :-(. But, I've worked w/ the it in the past :-D

Never tried SELinux myself, actually, but GRSecurity's RBAC system is my best friend in the world ^-^

I've heard SEL is a bit difficult to get used to, but after that it's great. Any truth to that?

[w00t]

I've certainly found that SELinux works well for individual systems, but is a bitch to configure across entire networks, where each computer needs to do slightly different things.

[roger_smith]

SELinux is great....when you can get it working right, lol. It's somewhat difficult to administer at first, but once you get the hang of it it's not too bad. There's way to make it fix itself, which 9/10 times is a safe thing to do and won't break things. but boy, that 1/10 when it does break stuff... hold on.

The nice thing w/ SELinux is you can set it to enforcing or permitting on the fly, so if something is broken, you can just set to permissive mode while troubleshooting the problem and it will continue logging the exception without actually impeding functionality. Be warned though, DISABLING SELinux (different from permissive mode) requires a FSCK and can take a long time since it has to go thru and analyze each. individual. file.