Turning selinux back on (was: New updates (from 4/5) causing problem getting into gnome)

Russell Coker russell at coker.com.au
Tue Apr 13 14:30:21 UTC 2004


On Sun, 11 Apr 2004 06:09, Brian Bober <netdemonz at yahoo.com> wrote:
> --- Russell Coker wrote:
> > Providing that you have a few basic files labeled correctly (init,
> > mingetty, login, gdm, and sshd) the machine should run fine in permissive
> > mode (append enforcing=0 to the kernel command line) no matter how badly
> > the rest of it is
>
> When I turn selinux back on (getting rid of selinux=0 kernel param), do I
> need to run fixfiles or anything?

Any files that were created when the machine was running with selinux=0 will 
need to be relabeled.  It may be easier to just relabel all file systems.

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