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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Mayer, Frank, 1961-
 SELinux by Example : Understanding Security Enhanced Linux / Frank Mayer, Karl MacMillan, David Caplan.
    p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
 ISBN 0-13-196369-4 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Linux. 2. Operating systems (Computers) 3. Computer networks
--Security measures. I. MacMillan, Karl, 1975- II. Caplan, David, 1963- III. Title.
 QA76.76.O63M3738 2006
 005.8--dc22
                                                        2006012657

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Dedication

To our wives Barbara, Sawyer, and Kimberly