Disabled, Permissive, or Enforcing, Sorting Out SELinux on Brian's Box
Brian’s running Ultramarine, which is Fedora underneath, and wanted SELinux disabled outright. Fair enough, plenty of people go straight for that. the disable route Two ways to actually do it. The config file way: sudo sed -i 's/^SELINUX=.*/SELINUX=disabled/' /etc/selinux/config sudo reboot Or through grubby instead, setting it as a kernel argument, which survives even if the config file gets reverted or overwritten somehow: sudo grubby --update-kernel=ALL --args="selinux=0" sudo reboot Check it landed after reboot: ...