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Re:DOGE Worker’s Code Supports NLRB Whistleblower by fipar on Wednesday April 23, 2025 @10:16PM (#43778690)
Not without a reboot though, and while I haven’t done that, it should be possible to protect selinux ‘s config itself with a policy, requiring boot loader access to bypass, at which point you’re dealing with a different risk level.

I’ll agree that Linux security is quite limited and primitive if compared with, say, a mainframe, but it can be made less bad with a reasonable amount of effort.

Re:DOGE Worker’s Code Supports NLRB Whistleblower by saagarjha on Wednesday April 23, 2025 @10:40PM (#43778804)
What would the mainframe be running that avoids this problem?
Re:DOGE Worker’s Code Supports NLRB Whistleblower by fipar on Thursday April 24, 2025 @07:25AM (#43781389)
That’s a big rabbit hole, reading about RACF is a good place to start.

The short answer would be that mainframes come with RBAC from design, unlike Unix, which has a different security model from conception and then had rbac added on top of it in some cases (such as selinux).