Difference between revisions of "SELinux"

Latest revision as of 11:37, 2 April 2014

see

Temporarily turn off SELinux

echo 0 > /selinux/enforce

The file itself will be empty, but you'll see something in /var/log/messages

dbus: avc:  received setenforce notice (enforcing=0)

Of course you can also turn it back on with "1" instead of "0".

This temporary change will not persist through a system reboot. You need to modify /etc/selinux/config to make permanent changes.

Annoyingly, if you check to see if selinux is enabled, it reports "enabled" even when it's temporarily disabled!?

selinuxenabled && echo enabled || echo disabled

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-see http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SELinux
+see
+* http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SELinux
+* http://www.nsa.gov/research/selinux/
+== Turning Off SELinux ==
+Temporarily turn off SELinux
+<source lang="bash">
+echo 0 > /selinux/enforce
+</source>
+The file itself will be empty, but you'll see something in <code>/var/log/messages</code>
+<pre>
+dbus: avc:  received setenforce notice (enforcing=0)
+</pre>
+Of course you can also turn it back on with "1" instead of "0".
+This temporary change will not persist through a system reboot.  You need to modify <code>/etc/selinux/config</code> to make permanent changes.
+Annoyingly, if you check to see if selinux is enabled, it reports "enabled" even when it's temporarily disabled!?
+<source lang="bash">
+selinuxenabled && echo enabled || echo disabled
+</source>
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