Henry,
The setenforce command switches SELinux temporarily. To make it persist, change the /etc/selinux/config file and reboot.
-Mike
On Thu, Feb 9, 2023, 12:40 PM Henry Zhang <henryzhang62@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Mike,setenforce can change mode. See:root@ctx0700:~# 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 - No SELinux policy is loaded.
SELINUX=enforcingroot@ctx0700:~# sestatus
SELinux status: enabled
SELinuxfs mount: /sys/fs/selinux
SELinux root directory: /etc/selinux
Loaded policy name: mcs
Current mode: enforcing
Mode from config file: enforcing
Policy MLS status: enabled
Policy deny_unknown status: allowed
Memory protection checking: requested (insecure)
Max kernel policy version: 31
root@ctx0700:~# setenforce 0
root@ctx0700:~# getenforce
Permissive
root@ctx0700:~# sestatus
SELinux status: enabled
SELinuxfs mount: /sys/fs/selinux
SELinux root directory: /etc/selinux
Loaded policy name: mcs
Current mode: permissive
Mode from config file: enforcing
Policy MLS status: enabled
Policy deny_unknown status: allowed
Memory protection checking: requested (insecure)
Max kernel policy version: 31-----henryOn Thu, Feb 9, 2023 at 12:11 PM Michael Radecker <michaelradecker@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:Henry,You can edit /etc/selinux/config to state SELINUX=enforcingWhen you reboot, your system will be enforcing SELinux policies and it will persist. I'm also including a link to Red Hat documentation regarding this topic.-MikeOn Thu, Feb 9, 2023 at 11:58 AM Henry Zhang <henryzhang62@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:Hi folks,_______________________________________________setenforce allows users to swap selinux mode between enforcing and permissive.
If I want my selinux to stay in enforcing mode forever so that nobody is able to interfere with my selinux.What should I do?Thanks.---henry
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