obsolete http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda_Boot_Options

Bruno Wolff III bruno at wolff.to
Wed May 9 17:51:56 UTC 2012


On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 13:31:42 -0400,
   Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com> wrote:
>On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 1:08 PM, Bruno Wolff III <bruno at wolff.to> wrote:
>> On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 08:19:46 -0400,
>>  Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Why do have both "enforcing=0" and "selinux=0"?
>>
>> Because they are different. enforcing=0 will run selinux in permissive
>> mode, selinux=0 will disable selinux.
>
>Exactly. Doesn't disabling selinux for that particular boot not
>override setting selinux to run in permissive mode? It doesn't make
>sense to use both simultaneously.

If you use selinux=0 it doesn't matter what enforcing is set to. So you
could change things so that there was one flag with three states instead
to two flags with 2 states each.


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