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VPS Hosting company is able to restrict users to use Selinux

Dear Experts,
My VPS server is hosted to one VPS hosting company.
Whatever I try to enable selinux on my apache linux CentOS with many linux command operation, it is still not enabled, Why ?After posting related question here, and the answer is not found yet.

And I talked to my hosting company, he replied:

We use OpenVZ virtualization (most popular VPS virtualization system), which doesn't support selinux for security reasons, i am sorry, but we have no option to enable it.

My question is

VPS hosting company has ability to restrict user to enable selinux even I have installed selinux  and done all selinux instruction on my VPS server since it is Virtualization server , they are able to restrict all VPS users to enable selinux, right ? If so, I will give up to enable selinux on my VPS server

Please advise

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In other words, you agree it my last question in my last post, right ?

If so, I will close this thread
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Ha ha, small world. You are the "other guy" I was going to check on.
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Thanks for your reply
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And to answer, yes, I agree. They are probably bound by this limitation.
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That is correct.  OpenVZ does not support SELinux.  If you require SELinux, you will have to go with another virtualization method.
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mugojava, thanks for your reply after this thread is closed. All agree it now .