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Enable or Disable Permissive Domain in SELinux policy on Linux — Ansible module selinux_permissive
How to automate the enabling or disabling of SELinux Permissive policy per single process or domain keeping the whole system under enforcing policy and make it persistent after a reboot on Linux with Ansible.
5 min readDec 20, 2021
SELinux Permissive Domain
What is SELinux?
Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux) is a Linux kernel security module that provides a mechanism for supporting access control security policies, including mandatory access controls (MAC).
What is SELinux Permissive Domain?
SELinux Permissive Domains allow an administrator to configure a single process (domain) to run permissive, rather than making the whole system permissive.
Ansible Enable or Disable Permissive Domain in SELinux policy
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community.general.selinux_permissive
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