# How to disable SElinux

**URL:** <https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/how-to-disable-selinux/16760>\
**Category:** Rocky Linux Help & Support\
**Tags:** unsupported\
**Created:** [December 6, 2024, 2:03pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/how-to-disable-selinux/16760 "2024-12-06T14:03:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![tmaria](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@tmaria](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/tmaria)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2024, 2:03pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/how-to-disable-selinux/16760/1 "2024-12-06T14:03:35Z")

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Apologies but to me is not clear on how to disable the SElinux on Rocky 9.4.  
By editing the file in /etc/selinux/config or using grubby commands, or I need to do it both?

Thank you

Maria

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**Author:** ![sweh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forums.rockylinux.org/sweh/32/1287_2.png) [@sweh](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/sweh)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2024, 3:21pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/how-to-disable-selinux/16760/2 "2024-12-06T15:21:19Z")

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Just `grubby`; see, for example, [How do I turn SELinux off in Red Hat Enterprise Linux? - Red Hat Customer Portal](https://access.redhat.com/solutions/3176) which describes how to do it for the different releases (all the way back to RHEL4!)

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**Author:** ![robert.wolfe](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forums.rockylinux.org/robert.wolfe/32/3267_2.png) [@robert.wolfe](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/robert.wolfe)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2024, 3:36pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/how-to-disable-selinux/16760/3 "2024-12-12T15:36:45Z")

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edit the file /etc/selinux/config and reboot.

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**Author:** ![bz7mmj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e5b9ba/32.png) [@bz7mmj](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/bz7mmj)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2024, 3:50pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/how-to-disable-selinux/16760/4 "2024-12-12T15:50:29Z")

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```auto
vim /etc/selinux/config
# Comment out the line that has SELINUX=enforcing
# Add a line
SELINUX=disabled
       OR a line
SELINUX=permissive

```

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**Author:** ![bz7mmj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e5b9ba/32.png) [@bz7mmj](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/bz7mmj)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2024, 3:52pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/how-to-disable-selinux/16760/5 "2024-12-12T15:52:13Z")

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You can set SELINUX to permissive temporarily by running as root

```auto
# setenforce 0

```

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/rockylinux/original/1X/91b7219eec10e30013422e4df76c1d898711a5d5.svg) [@system](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2025, 3:52pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/how-to-disable-selinux/16760/6 "2025-02-10T15:52:20Z")

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