RE: disabling selinux from a chroot?

Something to try
1.) Temporarily turn off SELinux - good for troubleshooting:=20

/usr/bin/setenforce 0=20

(Note: This will have to be done as root.) =20

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From: aklug-bounce@aklug.org [mailto:aklug-bounce@aklug.org] On Behalf
Of Damien Hull
Sent: Sunday, August 26, 2007 11:44 AM
To: lee@afabco.com
Cc: aklug@aklug.org
Subject: Re: disabling selinux from a chroot?

If I remember correctly selinux messes with the kernel. This would=20
suggest to me that you can't turn it off once the system boots. If you=20
could it wouldn't be secure. I could be wrong.

There is a config file in /etc that allows you to turn selinux off. That

won't help you because it requires a reboot. Look into the following.

   1. Find a way to turn selinux of at the grub boot menu
         1. Not sure if this is possable
   2. Make a custom CD and turn off selinux
   3. Get a different rescue CD

lee@afabco.com wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> had a redhat enterprise 4 machine go barf on me, corruption on one of

> the disks, I'm booted off the redhat rescue CD, and have everything =20
> mounted and running in a chroot. Everything seems to be running =20
> except for one app that selinux appears to be intercepting. What =20
> idiot decided to enable selinux on a rescue CD I have no idea but I =20
> hope they rot. Anyway, how do I disable selinux on the fly?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
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Received on Sun Aug 26 18:41:59 2007