What you need for this book
As the book focuses on hands-on experience, it is seriously recommended to have an SELinux-enabled system at your disposal. Many distributions offer live environments that can be used to perform initial investigations with, but ensure that you pick one that can persist the changes made to the system.
An SELinux-enabled system should be using a recent set of SELinux libraries and user space utilities. This book is written based on Gentoo Hardened, running the SELinux user space libraries and utilities released in October 2013 (such as libselinux-2.2.2) with the reference policy released in March 2014. The distribution itself is not that important, as everything in this book is distribution-independent, so it is well usable ...
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