On Fri, Nov 9, 2018 at 2:36 AM Ed Greshko <ed.gres...@greshko.com> wrote:
>
> >>> In my experience, no, permissive mode does not disable all of SELinux's
> >>> blocks, and _especially_ stuff having to to with networking (including
> >>> pipes). It's always bothered me.
> >> Interesting.  I've not run into this problem
> >>
> >> Well, doing "selinux=0" on the kernel parameters at reboot will then 
> >> totally disable
> >> selinux to test.
> > I did reboot with
> >
> > selinux=0
> >
> > but
> >
> > # sestatus
> > SELinux status:                 enabled
> > SELinuxfs mount:                /sys/fs/selinux
> > SELinux root directory:         /etc/selinux
> > Loaded policy name:             targeted
> > Current mode:                   enforcing
> > Mode from config file:          enforcing
> > Policy MLS status:              enabled
> > Policy deny_unknown status:     allowed
> > Memory protection checking:     actual (secure)
> > Max kernel policy version:      31
> > #
> >
> > A mystery!
>
> Really?
>
> What does "cat /proc/cmdline" show?
>
> It should be similar to...
>
> [root@f29b-xfce grub2]# cat /proc/cmdline
> BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-4.18.12-300.fc29.x86_64 
> root=/dev/mapper/fedora_f29b--xfce-root ro
> resume=/dev/mapper/fedora_f29b--xfce-swap rd.lvm.lv=fedora_f29b-xfce/root
> rd.lvm.lv=fedora_f29b-xfce/swap rhgb quiet LANG=en_US.UTF-8 selinux=0
>
> [root@f29b-xfce grub2]# sestatus
> SELinux status:                 disabled
>

Thanks, Ed. I may have done something wrong. Anyway, I end up
following a different path: Using the Selinux config file, as detailed
at:

https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/11/html/Security-Enhanced_Linux/sect-Security-Enhanced_Linux-Enabling_and_Disabling_SELinux-Disabling_SELinux.html

Paul
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