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How to disable SELinux

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Enforcing’ mode in Selinux is enabled by default.

 

1) Make a backup copy of SELinux.

cp /etc/sysconfig/selinux /etc/sysconfig/selinux.bak

 

2) To disable Linux, run the following command:

cat /etc/sysconfig/selinux.bak | sed s/"SELINUX=enforcing"/"SELINUX=disabled"/g > /etc/sysconfig/selinux

 

You can check SELinux status by running the command below:

sestatus