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Answer by WhiteWinterWolf for Myth or reality: SELinux can confine the root...

Reality: yes, SELinux can confine the root user. This is possible because SELinux do not actually care about the current Unix user: all it sees is a supplementary metadata called the context (which...

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Answer by Otheus for Myth or reality: SELinux can confine the root user?

Is it possible to harden a Linux box (possibly with SELinux), such that even the root user cannot do specific malicious activities on it? This may sound cheap, but it's easy: change the uid of the...

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Answer by strugee for Myth or reality: SELinux can confine the root user?

Yes, it's possible. But not very useful. You could theoretically disallow the root user from running binaries that could be used for malicious purposes, enforcing policies via something like SELinux....

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Myth or reality: SELinux can confine the root user?

I read or heard somewhere (maybe in LinuxCBT's SELinux course; but I'm not sure) that there are online Linux servers, for which the password of the root user is also given. The Linux server is...

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