Enabling SELinux (was Re: How to make SELinux in Fedora work?)

Daniel J Walsh dwalsh at redhat.com
Thu Jun 3 16:42:35 UTC 2004


Park Lee wrote:

> Dear sir,
>
> Now, I know the reason  to run 'fixfiles relabel' in single-user mode.
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> Let's look at the 3 steps again:
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> 1. Modified /etc/sysconfig/selinux to have 'SELINUX=permissive'
> 2. Rebooted single-user and ran 'fixfiles relabel'
> 3. Rebooted multi-user
>
> Can I take the steps in the order as the following:
>
> 1. Rebooted single-user and ran 'fixfiles relabel'
> 2. Rebooted multi-user
> 3. Modified /etc/sysconfig/selinux to have 'SELINUX=permissive'
> 4. Rebooted multi-user
>
> That is ,can we first 'fixfiles relabel' in a non-SELinux kernel. and 
> then turn into the SELinux kernel ? Is it safe?
>
No,  Relabel will not work in a Non SELinux kernel.


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> Respectfully yours,
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> Park Lee
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> 2004-06-03
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