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Introduction

Welcome to the SELinux Guide! This guide is intended for users who are not afraid of using a terminal, to edit files, who are power users, and are interested in making SELinux work for them but don't know where to start or what to do.

This guide explains:

• What SELinux is and why it is important
• Relabeling, changing the default behavior, and other basic SELinux settings
• What tools you will need to make SELinux work for you
• Common problems and solutions
• How to lock users using the guest account
• Customizing policies
• Additional resources
• SELinux and Samba
• SELinux and creating home html directories
• Contributing to SELinux
• and much more....

About this Document

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This is a work in progress, improving it is what Fedora is all about. If there are problems with the document please email the lead writer so that fixes can be implemented.

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