On 10/11/07, Stephen Smalley <sds(a)tycho.nsa.gov> wrote:
On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 10:00 -0700, Tom London wrote:
> What is the 'approved' method for determining if SELinux is
'running',
> that is, active, and in either enforcing or permissive mode?
>
> If my feeble memory serves me, there used to be a 'isSELinux' or some
> such, but I can't seem to find this anymore.
>
> I'd like to modify some scripts to work both with and without SELinux
> active, e.g., vmware. It is currently testing against the contents of
> /selinux/enforce, but that does not seem right....
What kind of scripts? Python scripts can use the python bindings to
libselinux to directly invoke is_selinux_enabled(),
security_getenforce(), and/or selinux_getenforcemode().
Shell scripts can execute selinuxenabled (as a boolean condition,
exiting with 0 for true and 1 for false, just like /bin/true
and /bin/false, for use in conditional statements - no output),
getenforce (displaying the Enforcing/Permissive/Disabled status as
output), or sestatus (displaying more information).
vmware, in particular, runs a shell script.
Here was the 'before' test:
if [ "`cat /selinux/enforce 2> /dev/null`" = "1" ]; then
This had the (erroneous?) behavior of only executing the 'then' clause
if SELinux is active and in enforcing mode. So permissive mode borks
this.
Here is how I changed it:
if [ -x /usr/sbin/selinuxenabled ] && /usr/sbin/selinuxenabled ; then
Seems to work (I booted w/ enforcing=0).....
Any chance that selinuxenabled would get installed someplace else?
tom
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Tom London