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[-] epicshepich@programming.dev 1 points 4 months ago

I use podman-compose with system accounts and I don't have a ton of issues. The biggest one is that I can't seem to get bluetooth and pip working on Home Assistant at the same time. Most of the servers I manage have SELinux and it works fine as long as I use :z/:Z with bind mounts.

A few years ago, I set up a VPS for my friend's business; at the time, I didn't know how to work with SELinux so I just turned it off. I tried to flip it back on, and it somehow bricked the system. We had to restore from a backup. Since then, I've been afraid to enable it on my flagship homelab server.

[-] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 months ago

are you sure it really bricked it? when turning it on, on next boot it needs to go over all the files and retag them or something like that, and it can take a significant amount of time

[-] epicshepich@programming.dev 1 points 4 months ago

Honestly, I don't know what happened, but it was unreachable via SSH and the web console. There shouldn't have been a ton of files to tag since it was an Almalinux system that started with SELinux enabled, and all we added was a container app or two.

[-] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 months ago

that started with SELinux enabled

that does not matter, it needs to go over all of them. I don't know how long it takes with SSD, but with HDD it can take a half an hour or more, with a mostly base system. and the kernel starts doing this very early, when not even systemd or other processes are running, so no ssh, but web console should have been working to see what its doing

[-] epicshepich@programming.dev 1 points 4 months ago

Good to know! I do hope to eventually re-enable SELinux on my flagship server, so I'll keep this in mind. As for my friend's server, I think he migrated to Alpine a while back.

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