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From: Sven Vermeulen <sven.vermeulen@××××××.be>
To: gentoo-hardened@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-hardened] safely remove selinux from an existing install?
Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2013 18:13:48
Message-Id: CAPzO=NwEN7mjoMhHvXYYDgF-jpNnCVn3ygvGRfB4RQWV6KXo=w@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-hardened] safely remove selinux from an existing install? by Mike Edenfield
1 On Mar 23, 2013 1:34 PM, "Mike Edenfield" <kutulu@××××××.org> wrote:
2 >
3 > I have a couple of old servers that are being replaced and repurposed as
4 > developer testbed systems. Since they are already configured with all of
5 the
6 > software and settings that our production boxes need I want to keep them
7 as
8 > intact as possible. However, I want to remove selinux (and hardened in
9 > general) from a couple of them.
10 >
11 > The one and only time I tried to remove selinux from a running system it
12 > severely broke coreutils and I ended up basically reinstalling. Is there a
13 > known-safe procedure to remove the selinux bits from a system while
14 leaving
15 > everything else installed? What order do I need to do things to prevent
16 the
17 > existing selinux-aware stuff from falling apart?
18 >
19
20 I'm not aware of such a procedure for now... :-(
21
22 wkr,
23 Sven Vermeulen

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