Chapter 14: Dealing with New Applications
New applications are often not yet supported through an application-specific SELinux policy, as most application projects do not develop the SELinux policies themselves, but rely on the community in general (or Linux distributions more specifically) to create and maintain them. Some Linux distributions have implemented fallbacks to allow these applications to run, even though they might not be isolated properly. Administrators might not like the sound of having untrusted new applications running without any SELinux enforcements active though.
Hence, this chapter covers how administrators can run new applications in a number of isolated environments, ranging from the (often default) unprotected domains, ...
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