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[Discuss] SELinux & IPTables



John Malloy wrote:
> Does anyone have any suggestions for Best Practices in configuring SELinux
> & IPTables for a RedHat (RHEL6)  server running Apache, PHP, and connecting
> to an Oracle DB (using OCI8)?

Don't use SELinux unless you're required to use it. For example, US 
government contracts. If you really need something along this line then 
either AppArmor or GrSec are better choices.

Otherwise, everything Mark wrote applies.

-- 
Rich P.



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