How to get rid of selinux

[Joachim Backes]

Joachim Backes wrote:
> Daniel J Walsh wrote:
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>> gab_v wrote:
>>> Dear all,
>>> I have a Fedora 9 distr.
>>>
>>> I've lot of problem with SELinux, so I want to know how to get rid of it. In particular I am interested NOT in make SELinux status "Disabled" but to uninstall it. 
>>>
>>> I am not sure how to do it, also because I just started working with Linux OS.
>>>
>>> How can I do?
>>>
>>> I was thinking about 
>>> doing
>>> rpm -qa |grep SELinux
>>> and then 
>>> rpm -e ...
>>>
>>> But will it be enough?
>>>
>>> I want to do very safe commands since I need the computer at work.
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance
>>>
>>> p.s.  
>>> I said not how to disabled SELinux because I did it once and I did not solve the problem and, after that, I had a block at boot process.
>>>
>>>
>> libselinux is a core library of the Fedora System and some other Linux
>> Distributes, it can not be removed.  Policycoreutils includes restorecon
>> command which has been required by several other packages, so it can not
>> be removed either.  You should be able to remove other selinux packages.
>>
>> yum remove selinux-poliycy
> 
> This is a very bad idea, and it uninstalls policycoreutils-gui too: I 
> tried it, but afterwards, system-config-services did no more run as 
> non-root-user, but failed with an flood of error messages. And the gnome 
> menu System->Administration->Services no more runs as non-root-user. 
> These problems still appear even after reinstalling selinux-policy (and 
> policycoreutils-gui):
> 
> system-config-services
> ERROR:dbus.proxies:Introspect error on 
> :1.51:/org/fedoraproject/Config/Services/ServiceHerders/SysVServiceHerder: 
> dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.AccessDenied: 
> A security policy in place prevents this sender from sending this 
> message to this recipient, see message bus configuration file (rejected 
> message had interface "org.freedesktop.DBus.Introspectable" member 
> "Introspect" error name "(unset)" destination ":1.51")
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "/usr/bin/system-config-services", line 945, in <module>
>      GUI (use_dbus = use_dbus).run ()
>    File "/usr/bin/system-config-services", line 900, in __init__
>      self.serviceherders.append (cls (bus = self._bus))
>    File 
> "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/scservices/dbus/proxy/serviceherders.py", 
> line 53, in __init__
>      for service_name in self.list_services ():
>    File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/slip/dbus/polkit.py", line 48, 
> in enable_proxy_wrapper
>      return func (*p, **k)
>    File 
> "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/scservices/dbus/proxy/serviceherders.py", 
> line 66, in list_services
>      return self.dbus_object.list_services (dbus_interface = 
> "org.fedoraproject.Config.Services.ServiceHerder")
>    File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/dbus/proxies.py", line 68, in 
> __call__
>      return self._proxy_method(*args, **keywords)
>    File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/dbus/proxies.py", line 140, in 
> __call__
>      **keywords)
>    File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/dbus/connection.py", line 630, 
> in call_blocking
>      message, timeout)
> dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.AccessDenied: 
> A security policy in place prevents this sender from sending this 
> message to this recipient, see message bus configuration file (rejected 
> message had interface "org.fedoraproject.Config.Services.ServiceHerder" 
> member "list_services" error name "(unset)" destination ":1.51")
> 
> 
> Joachim Backes <joachim.backes at rhrk.uni-kl.de>
> 

Hi, I could solvis the problem by replacing /etc/dbus-1/system.conf
by a backupped version I made before removing selinux-policy.

Joachim Backes <joachim.backes at rhrk.uni-kl.de>

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