---
name: "selinux-config-enforcing"
section: "8"
platform: "linux"
package: "selinux-basics"
version: "0.6.0"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/selinux-config-enforcing"
---

# selinux-config-enforcing(8)

change /etc/selinux/config to set enforcing or permissive modes

## NAME

selinux-config-enforcing - change /etc/selinux/config to set enforcing or permissive modes

## SYNOPSIS

**selinux-config-enforcing** \[permissive\]

## DESCRIPTION

**selinux-config-enforcing** this command will modify /etc/selinux/config to specify whether SE Linux should be in enforcing or permissive mode on boot.  This may be overridden by the "enforcing=" kernel command-line option (which takes the value 0 for permissive and 1 for enforcing).  The parameter "0" or "permissive" will cause it to set permissive mode, any other parameter will result in enforcing mode being set.

## SEE ALSO

[**selinux**(8)](/selinux/8.md), **[sestatus(8)](/sestatus/8.md),** [**selinuxenabled**(1)](/selinuxenabled/1.md), **[load\_policy(8)](/load_policy/8.md),** **[semodule(8)](/semodule/8.md),** **[postfix-nochroot(8)](/postfix-nochroot/8.md),** **[check-selinux-installation(8)](/check-selinux-installation/8.md),** **[selinux-policy-upgrade(8)](/selinux-policy-upgrade/8.md),** http://wiki.debian.org/SELinux - More about SELinux Debian install, http://etbe.coker.com.au/tag/selinux/ - Russell's SE Linux blog posts.

## AUTHOR

This program and it's man page was written by Russell Coker \<russell@coker.com.au\> for the **Debian** system (but may be used by others).  Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 3.

On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public  License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-3.