booleans(8) SELinux Command Line documentation booleans(8)NAMEbooleans - Policy booleans enable runtime customization of SELinux pol‐
icy
DESCRIPTION
This manual page describes SELinux policy booleans. The SELinux pol‐
icy can include conditional rules that are enabled or disabled based on
the current values of a set of policy booleans. These policy booleans
allow runtime modification of the security policy without having to
load a new policy.
For example, the boolean httpd_enable_cgi allows the httpd daemon to
run cgi scripts if it is enabled. If the administrator does not want
to allow execution of cgi scripts, he can simply disable this boolean
value.
The policy defines a default value for each boolean, typically false.
These default values can be overridden via local settings created via
the setsebool(8) utility, using -P to make the setting persistent
across reboots. The system-config-securitylevel tool provides a graph‐
ical interface for altering the settings. The load_policy(8) program
will preserve current boolean settings upon a policy reload by default,
or can optionally reset booleans to the boot-time defaults via the -b
option.
Boolean values can be listed by using the getsebool(8) utility and
passing it the -a option.
Boolean values can also be changed at runtime via the setsebool(8)
utility or the togglesebool(8) utility. By default, these utilities
only change the current boolean value and do not affect the persistent
settings, unless the -P option is used to setsebool.
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Dan Walsh <dwalsh@redhat.com>. The
SELinux conditional policy support was developed by Tresys Technology.
SEE ALSOgetsebool(8), setsebool(8), selinux(8), togglesebool(8)dwalsh@redhat.com 11 Aug 2004 booleans(8)
