How to disable SElinux in Fedora 8

What is SElinux ?

SELinux introduces Mandatory access control (MAC) in Linux. Using MAC, system administrator can create a mandatory policy that limits what access a particular process may be granted to an object.

How to check if SELinux is enabled or disabled in Fedora 8

You are running Fedora and you aren't sure if you have SElinux enabled or disabled. Here is how you can check if you have SElinux disabled in Fedora 8:

[root@fedora8 ~]# grep SELINUX /etc/selinux/config # SELINUX= can take one of these three values: SELINUX=disabled

There is file called config in /etc/selinux which is used to enable/disable SElinux in Fedora:

Steps to disable SELINUX in Fedora 8

[root@fedora8 ~]#cat /etc/selinux/config # This file controls the state of SELinux on the system. # SELINUX= can take one of these three values: # enforcing - SELinux security policy is enforced. # permissive - SELinux prints warnings instead of enforcing. # disabled - SELinux is fully disabled. SELINUX=disabled # SELINUXTYPE= type of policy in use. Possible values are: # targeted - Only targeted network daemons are protected. # strict - Full SELinux protection. SELINUXTYPE=targeted # SETLOCALDEFS= Check local definition changes SETLOCALDEFS=0

While installing Linux Fedora) if you haven't paid much attention then chances are you probably have missed window where installation program ask to enable/disable SElinux.

SElinux can run as enforcing or in permissive mode. If in /etc/selinux/config file selinux is set as permissive or enforcing then change it to disabled. You would need to reboot your Fedora 8 server to disable selinux. This change wouldn't work without rebooting your linux box.

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