Disabling Selinux ?

Marcel Janssen korgull at home.nl
Sun Jul 3 19:19:09 UTC 2005


On Sunday 03 July 2005 21:07, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Hi
>
> > Is this possible without any risk to my files (I don't care about
> >security risks) ?
>
> Switching off SELinux wont affect your data if you dont care about
> security. However I would recommend running "setenforce 0"  or looking
> into /var/log/messages to check whether SELinux is the reason behind
> your problems before turning it off.  Posting to fedora-selinux with the
> details would give developers a chance to tackle and fix the problems.
> If you are doing this temporarily then setting it to permissive in
> /etc/selinux/config is recommended over disabling it. See the FC3
> SELinux FAQ for details

There are no problems reported via /var/log/messages.
So this indicates something else is broken.
I won't mess around with SElinux as long as I don't find an obvious reason to 
do so than.

Regards,
Marcel




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