SELinux Reset

[max bianco]

On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 7:45 AM, Stephen Smalley<sds at tycho.nsa.gov> wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-08-08 at 00:45 -0700, Justin P. Mattock wrote:
>> Peter Joseph wrote:
>> >> enforcing =0 should work.
>> >> are you putting it the right area in grub/lilo?
>> >> also you should be able to just change
>> >> /etc/selinux/config
>> >> set to permissive mode to avoid using the boot command line.
>> >> or
>> >> setenforce 0
>> >> and
>> >> echo 0>  /selinux/enforce
>> >> to put the policy in permissive mode until things get cleaned.
>> >> Justin P. Mattock
>> >>
>> > --
>> > SELinux has to be completely DISABLED for anybody to log in.  Changing
>> > /etc/selinux/config to a permissive mode is of no use.
>> > I am thinking about trying to change all booleans from deny to allow (wow,
>> > what a monstrous task).  After all, that is how this trouble started in the
>> > first place.
>> > PJ
>> >
>> > fedora-selinux-list mailing list
>> > fedora-selinux-list at redhat.com
>> > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-selinux-list
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> yeah but booleans don't mess with the
>> MBR or the bootloader of the kernel?
>
> No, they are part of the policy image (if set persistently).
>
> But the booleans only affect what allow rules are enabled at any given
> time.  If the system is in permissive mode, then the boolean settings
> shouldn't prevent anything from working; they will just affect what avc
> denials get logged.
>
> enforcing=0 on the kernel command line or SELINUX=permissive
> in /etc/selinux/config should resolve any SELinux-related denials.
>
> Out of curiosity, you didn't happen to change the xserver_object_manager
> boolean, did you?
>
It was the unconfined_login boolean that got him.



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