Easy way to remove SELinux permissions?

[Stephen Smalley]

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 {} \;

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Stephen Smalley
National Security Agency