disabling selinux entirely

[John Aldrich]

On Wednesday 07 January 2009, Stephen Smalley wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-01-07 at 10:23 -0500, John Aldrich wrote:
> > I thought that by setting selinux to "disabled" in the config file, I
> > wouldn't be bothered by it's alerts any more. How do I stop SELinux
> > from running, period? I don't want any alerts from SELinux regarding
> > stuff I'm trying to install.
>
> SELINUX=disabled in /etc/selinux/config should have done the trick for
> you.  Can you provide the output of:
> $ cat /etc/selinux/config
> $ dmesg | grep SELinux:
>
[john at SLAVE1 ~]$ 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

[john at SLAVE1 ~]$ dmesg | grep selinux
SELinux: initialized (dev selinuxfs, type selinuxfs), uses genfs_contexts

Note that I have not rebooted yet, if that's necessary.