Re: How do you reset Selinux back to default?

[Ed Greshko]

On 03/13/18 09:28, ToddAndMargo wrote:
> On 03/12/2018 04:20 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
> > On 03/13/18 07:02, ToddAndMargo wrote:
> > > Hi All,
> > >
> > > How do you set SELinux back to default and start over?
> >
> > You mean for the entire file system?  If so, "fixfiles onboot"  will setup the
> > machine to relabel on the next reboot.
> >
> > See the "fixfiles" man page.
> >
> > Alternatively, you can "touch /.autorelabel" and reboot.
>
> Hi Ed,
>
> Thank you!
>
> I mean before I started adding things to SELinux based on
> SEAlerts and such.  In other word, set SELinux back to
> the way I found it after I installed Linux

It will relabel files back to their "default" selinux context.  However, if you added
your own policy or made changes to existing policies I believe they will remain.