[CentOS] "selinux --disabled" in kickstart file does NOT disable SELINUX

Tue May 26 05:56:15 UTC 2015
Jeremy Hoel <jthoel at gmail.com>

If the decision was made around the 4.8 time period to not fix the problem,
why in v6 is it still listed in the manual as being a valid option?

On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 11:49 PM, Andrew Holway <andrew.holway at gmail.com>
wrote:

> To set selinux to permissive or disabled mode during a kickstart
> installation, add the sed -i -e 's/\(^SELINUX=\).*$/\1permissive/'
> /etc/selinux/config command to the %post section of the kickstart file.
> Making sure to replace "permissive" with the required selinux mode.
>
>
> -- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=435300
>
> On 26 May 2015 at 04:40, Rob Kampen <rkampen at kampensonline.com> wrote:
>
> > On 05/26/2015 08:32 AM, Charlie Brune wrote:
> >
> >> Has the "selinux --disabled" line for kickstart files been depreciated?
> >>
> >>     My CentOS 6.6 kickstart file contains the line:
> >>
> >>
> >> selinux --disabled
> >>
> >> After the install completes, SELinux is enabled instead of disabled.
> >>
> >>  I believe this has been the default since at least 6.1 - the version I
> > installed on my workstation about three years ago.
> > It came up at first reboot with selinux enforcing.
> > Unlike CentOS 5.x where I used selinux in permissive mode only, I have
> > found 6.x seems to work just fine with enforcing mode provided one sets
> and
> > uses the appropriate selinux booleans that are in place for the packages
> > and work scenario that one needs. As far as I recall, I have only had one
> > or two situations where I've had to follow the the audittoallow
> > instructions.
> >
> >    /etc/selinux/config contains "SELINUX=enforcing" instead of
> >> "SELINUX=disabled".
> >>
> >>   Thanks,
> >>
> >> Charlie
> >>
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