Bug 1046450 - Unable to disable selinux
Summary: Unable to disable selinux
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 1046470
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: libselinux
Version: 20
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Daniel Walsh
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Whiteboard:
: 1047045 (view as bug list)
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-12-25 10:54 UTC by Dr. Tilmann Bubeck
Modified: 2013-12-28 21:24 UTC (History)
7 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2013-12-28 21:24:58 UTC
Type: Bug
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Description Dr. Tilmann Bubeck 2013-12-25 10:54:04 UTC
Description of problem:
I want to disble SElinux (Yes, I know you want selinux to be enabled...) and used two ways, but all of them were unsuccessfull, so selinux is still enabled.

I tried:

 * SELINUX=disabled in /etc/selinux/config
 * system-config-selinux and select "Disabled".

After a reboot, the system still is enabled:

[root@frodo bubeck]# sestatus 
SELinux status:                 enabled
SELinuxfs mount:                /sys/fs/selinux
SELinux root directory:         /etc/selinux
Loaded policy name:             targeted
Current mode:                   permissive
Mode from config file:          disabled
Policy MLS status:              enabled
Policy deny_unknown status:     allowed
Max kernel policy version:      28


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
selinux-policy-3.12.1-106.fc20.noarch

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install FC20
2. set SELINUX=disabled in /etc/selinux/config
3. reboot
4. check with "sestatus"

Actual results:
SELinux status:                 enabled


Expected results:
SELinux status:                 disabled


Additional info:

Comment 1 Morten Stevens 2013-12-25 14:08:12 UTC
Same problem here. But the cause is probably libselinux and not selinux-policy.

Description of problem:

Fedora 20 host with selinux disabled

After upgrading to libselinux-2.2.1-4.fc20, selinux will be enabled automatically and can not be disabled with /etc/selinux/config.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

libselinux-2.2.1-4.fc20

How reproducible:

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Fedora 20 installation
2. Disable selinux via /etc/selinux/config
3. Upgrade to libselinux-2.2.1-4.fc20
4. After rebooting, selinux is enabled

Actual results:

[root@fc20 ~]# sestatus
SELinux status:                 enabled
SELinuxfs mount:                /sys/fs/selinux
SELinux root directory:         /etc/selinux
Loaded policy name:             targeted
Current mode:                   permissive
Mode from config file:          disabled
Policy MLS status:              enabled
Policy deny_unknown status:     allowed
Max kernel policy version:      28

Expected results:

SELinux status:                 disabled

Comment 2 Morten Stevens 2013-12-25 14:19:33 UTC
Workaround:

1) Edit /etc/default/grub
2) Add selinux=0 to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX
3) grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg
4) reboot and selinux is disabled

Comment 3 Gerald Cox 2013-12-28 18:46:06 UTC
*** Bug 1047045 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4 Morten Stevens 2013-12-28 21:24:58 UTC
Please check: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1046470

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1046470 ***


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