test3: I thought selinux was disabled

Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha strange at nsk.no-ip.org
Sun May 9 10:27:58 UTC 2004


On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 12:33:15AM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> selinux is disabled, but not really, unless you update to latest
> rawhide, whose kernel has a new feature that enables selinux to be
> fully disabled before a policy is loaded, such that
> /etc/sysconfig/selinux SELINUX=disabled can do that, instead of just
> leaving selinux enabled without any policy loaded.  Before this new
> feature, in order to fully disable selinux you had to add selinux=0 to
> the boot command line.  With the latest kernel, you no longer need
> selinux=0; setting SELINUX=disabled in /etc/sysconfig/selinux is
> equivalent, and you no longer get these rpm errors.

But why remove the "selinux=0" option? It was a feature, to temporarily
disable selinux when needed.

Regards,
Luciano Rocha





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