SELinux Understanding

[Claude Jones]

On Mon October 15 2007, Nigel Henry wrote:
> Now I'm not too bothered about SELinux. I've seen it around since FC2, but
> for the first time on Fedora 7 I've given it a try. I'm only a home user,
> so nothing critical going on, and apart from the little FTP problem it's
> working ok.
>
> I'm not sure what you're saying though in your reply above. From what I
> understand, if you disable SELinux (not sure if a reboot has to occur
> before the next step), then re-enable SELinux in enforcing mode (as it was
> previously). I found that re-enabling SELinux in enforcing mode, then
> rebooting, resulted in the relabelling stuff being done. So is there some
> incantation you can apply to the kernel on bootup to prevent SELinux doing
> it's relabel stuff?

See my reply to Bruno. It's been awhile since I disabled it, and when I'd done 
it in the past, I don't recall having a relabel forced. My memory could be 
wrong, or things may have changed...

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Claude Jones
Brunswick, MD, USA