Request to re-add option to disable SELinux - compromise

Peter Jones pjones at redhat.com
Mon Jul 14 15:35:45 UTC 2008


jeff wrote:
> Peter Jones wrote:
>> Robert Nichols wrote:
>>
>>> Anaconda already allows you to add arbitrary kernel parameters when
>>> configuring the bootloader.  I always add "vga=791" and "selinux=0".
>>
>> There's a whitelist to determine which ones are propagated to the 
>> bootloader config, though.
> 
> Is selinux=0 on the whitelist?
> 
> I still don't understand why doing "boot: linux selinux=0" 
> wouldn't/shouldn't be passed to grub.

Well, in the past it used the config file to turn it off, IIRC.  In 
general that's preferred over having to add things to the boot command 
line that become required for the system to boot up correctly.

-- 
   Peter




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