Dear all, I have to apologize in advance for my lack of knowledge in SELINUX.
Users on my system are currently receiving the following message when logging in,
"Your default context is user_u:system_r:unconfined_t.
Do you want to choose a different one? [n]
"
I have two questions here,
1) If I decide to leave SELINUX, how do I set this user or other users so that the message does not appear.
2) how do I switch off the SELINUX facility.
The /etc/selinux/config file contains the following,
"# This file controls the state of SELinux on the system.
# SELINUX= can take one of these three values:
# enforcing - SELinux security policy is enforced.
# permissive - SELinux prints warnings instead of enforcing.
# disabled - SELinux is fully disabled.
SELINUX=Disabled
# SELINUXTYPE= type of policy in use. Possible values are:
# targeted - Only targeted network daemons are protected.
# strict - Full SELinux protection.
SELINUXTYPE=targeted"

Is the SELINUX variable case sensitive? Should this be set to 'disabled' rather then 'Disabled'.

Any help would be appreciated?

I'm not strong on SELINUX but I would think that it IS case sensitive as most things in Linux are. Certainly no harm in trying it that way.

Also it would help to know what distro this is. RHEL, Suse, Debian?

thanks for that. If i set the variable to 'disabled', I presume this will take affect upon reboot?

As I understand it, Yes.

Again I ask what distro is this?

thanks for the replies.
We are talking about GNU/Linux

really need to dig into SELINUX. :-)

Linux is just the kernel. SELinux is implemented different on different distros. I ask for the THIRD time. What DISTRO are you using!!!!????

hi, The distro is as follows

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 4 (Nahant Update 2)
Thanks

You may find the following tools very useful when dealing with SELinux
system-config-securitylevel - allows you to enable/disable SELinux
restorecon - set SELinux contexts for files and directories back to defaults