Easy way to remove SELinux permissions?

[Sean Carlos]

Stephen Smalley wrote the following on 09/10/2009 02:57 PM:
> On Thu, 2009-09-10 at 07:58 +0200, Sean Carlos wrote:
>> At one point I performed a new Fedora install and restored my personal
>> files before disabling SELinux which I don't need.
>>
>> As a result many files have permissions which include a dot at the end,
>> e.g.:
>>
>> -rw-rw-r--.
>>
>> This causes havoc with many applications, i.e. gedit complains it cannot
>> make a back-up file.
>>
>> Q: How can I EASILY remove all SELinux attributes, e.g. perhaps with a
>> single command?
>
> If SELinux is disabled, then you should be able to do this:
> find / -exec setfattr -x security.selinux {} \;
>
> You might want to further qualify the find statement to avoid noise on
> filesystems that don't support security contexts, e.g.
>
> find / \( -fstype ext2 -o -fstype ext3 -o -fstype ext4 -o -fstype btrfs \) -exec setfattr -x security.selinux {} \;
>

This works perfectly - thanks!