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selinux_config(5)                   SELinux configuration file                  selinux_config(5)



NAME
       config - The SELinux sub-system configuration file.


DESCRIPTION
       The SELinux config file controls the state of SELinux regarding:

              1.  The policy enforcement status - enforcing, permissive or disabled.

              2.  The  policy  name  or type that forms a path to the policy to be loaded and its
                  supporting configuration files.

              3.  How local users and booleans will be managed when the policy  is  loaded  (note
                  that  this  function  was  used  by older releases of SELinux and is now depre-
                  cated).

              4.  How SELinux-aware login applications should behave if no  valid  SELinux  users
                  are configured.

              5.  Whether the system is to be relabeled or not.

       The entries controlling these functions are described in the FILE FORMAT section.

       The fully qualified path name of the SELinux configuration file is /etc/selinux/config.

       If  the  config file is missing or corrupt, then no SELinux policy is loaded (i.e. SELinux
       is disabled).

       The sestatus (8) command and the libselinux function  selinux_path  (3)  will  return  the
       location of the config file.


FILE FORMAT
       The config file supports the following parameters:

              SELINUX = enforcing | permissive | disabled
              SELINUXTYPE = policy_name
              SETLOCALDEFS = 0 | 1
              REQUIREUSERS = 0 | 1
              AUTORELABEL = 0 | 1

       Where:
       SELINUX
              This entry can contain one of three values:

                     enforcing
                         SELinux security policy is enforced.

                     permissive
                         SELinux  security policy is not enforced but logs the warnings (i.e. the
                         action is allowed to proceed).

                     disabled
                         SELinux is disabled and no policy is loaded.

              The entry can be determined using the sestatus(8)  command  or  selinux_getenforce-
              mode(3).

       SELINUXTYPE
              The  policy_name  entry is used to identify the policy type, and becomes the direc-
              tory name of where the policy and its configuration files are located.

              The entry can be determined using the  sestatus(8)  command  or  selinux_getpolicy-
              type(3).

              The  policy_name is relative to a path that is defined within the SELinux subsystem
              that can be retrieved by using  selinux_path(3).  An  example  entry  retrieved  by
              selinux_path(3) is:
                     /etc/selinux/

              The  policy_name  is  then  appended to this and becomes the 'policy root' location
              that can be retrieved by selinux_policy_root_path(3). An  example  entry  retrieved
              is:
                     /etc/selinux/targeted

              The  actual binary policy is located relative to this directory and also has a pol-
              icy name pre-allocated. This information can be retrieved using selinux_binary_pol-
              icy_path(3). An example entry retrieved by selinux_binary_policy_path(3) is:
                     /etc/selinux/targeted/policy/policy

              The  binary  policy  name has by convention the SELinux policy version that it sup-
              ports appended to it. The maximum policy version supported by  the  kernel  can  be
              determined  using  the  sestatus(8)  command  or security_policyvers(3). An example
              binary policy file with the version is:
                     /etc/selinux/targeted/policy/policy.24

       SETLOCALDEFS
              This entry is deprecated and should be removed or set to 0.

              If set to 1, then selinux_mkload_policy(3) will read the  local  customization  for
              booleans (see booleans(5)) and users (see local.users(5)).

       REQUIRESEUSERS
              This  optional entry can be used to fail a login if there is no matching or default
              entry in the seusers(5) file or if the seusers file is missing.

              It is checked by getseuserbyname(3) that is called by SELinux-aware login  applica-
              tions such as PAM(8).

              If set to 0 or the entry missing:
                     getseuserbyname(3)  will  return  the  GNU  / Linux user name as the SELinux
                     user.

              If set to 1:
                     getseuserbyname(3) will fail.

              The getseuserbyname(3) man page should be consulted for its use. The format of  the
              seusers file is shown in seusers(5).


       AUTORELABEL
              This is an optional entry that allows the file system to be relabeled.

              If  set to 0 and there is a file called .autorelabel in the root directory, then on
              a reboot, the loader will drop to a shell where a root login is required. An admin-
              istrator can then manually relabel the file system.

              If  set  to 1 or no entry present (the default) and there is a .autorelabel file in
              the root directory, then the file system will be automatically relabeled using fix-
              files -F restore

              In both cases the /.autorelabel file will be removed so that relabeling is not done
              again.



EXAMPLE
       This example config file shows the minimum contents for a system to run SELinux in enforc-
       ing mode, with a policy_name of 'targeted':

              SELINUX = enforcing
              SELINUXTYPE = targeted


SEE ALSO
       selinux(8), sestatus(8), selinux_path(3), selinux_policy_root_path(3), selinux_binary_pol-
       icy_path(3),   getseuserbyname(3),    PAM(8),    fixfiles(8),    selinux_mkload_policy(3),
       selinux_getpolicytype(3),  security_policyvers(3),  selinux_getenforcemode(3), seusers(5),
       booleans(5), local.users(5)



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