2.6.5-1.349 ignores selinux=0

Stephen Smalley sds at epoch.ncsc.mil
Tue May 4 15:36:36 UTC 2004


On Tue, 2004-05-04 at 11:30, Zach Wilkinson wrote:
> I didn't have /etc/sysconfig/selinux so I created it and put in the one line
> SELINUX=disable.
> I also changed grub.conf to selinux=disable from selinux=0.
> Neither of these changes made any difference. SELinux still reports
> "completing initialization" on boot and I still get tons of audit: avc:
> denied messages.
> up2date says I'm current.

The boot option in grub.conf won't work with the new kernel, as the
kernel configuration option wasn't enabled for it. /etc/syconfig/selinux
with SELINUX=disabled works here for me, but you need an up-to-date
kernel and SysVinit.

-- 
Stephen Smalley <sds at epoch.ncsc.mil>
National Security Agency





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