My worry is that one of the minor "tweaks" could be disabling (part/all
of) SELinux ( which of course might/might not be acceptable to some/all
sites.
Brian
-----Original Message-----
From: Testbed Support for GridPP member institutes
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Kostas Georgiou
Sent: 13 August 2009 10:57
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Request for sites to move WNs to SL5
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 02:39:18PM +0100, Coles, Jeremy (STFC,RAL,ESC)
wrote:
> There are already SL5 instances at RAL, Glasgow and Oxford. Our
> original plan was to wait for full confirmation from these sites of
> any remaining problems before asking further sites to migrate, but we
> now have assurances from the MB (and its constituent members) that the
> experiments are ready.
Does this means that the experiments fixed the problems with their code
i.e. ancient versions of root requiring the heap to be executable or are
they asking to lower the security of the system?
Kostas
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