Month: August 2011

I am in the process of setting up some CentOS/RHEL 6 servers to run SELinux in strict mode. What follows are notes, links to online resources and things that I am discovering along the way. Once I am finished I will go back and re-write it to follow more of a how-to/guide type format. In the meantime, it might seem a bit disjointed.

Links/Resources:

• http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/SELinux
• http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SELinux
• http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/Deployment_Guide-en-US/rhlcommon-chapter-0001.html
• http://www.nsa.gov/research/selinux/index.shtml

MaintLog Notes:

• Make sure that the selinux-policy-strict package (and deps) are installed:

→ Continue reading “Configuring CentOS to run SELinux in Strict Mode”

Sent to me by my friend, Wendy:

When attempting to run a yum (search/install) if you get a the “Metadata file does not match checksum” error, try the following:

# yum clean all

# yum makecache

# yum update

→ Continue reading “Fixing Metadata file does not match checksum”

Very handy random string generator:

http://www.random.org/strings/ → Continue reading “Random String Generator”