---
name: "sepolicy-booleans"
section: "8"
platform: "linux"
package: "policycoreutils-dev"
version: "3.8.1-2"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/sepolicy-booleans"
---

# sepolicy-booleans(8)

Query SELinux Policy to see description of booleans

## NAME

sepolicy-booleans - Query SELinux Policy to see description of booleans

## SYNOPSIS

**sepolicy booleans \[-h\] \[ -a \| -b booleanname ... \]**

## DESCRIPTION

**sepolicy booleans** will show all booleans and their descriptions, or you can choose individual booleans to display. Please make sure that selinux-policy-devel is present in your system since it contains boolean descriptions extracted from the policy source code. Otherwise **sepolicy booleans** will only show descriptions generated based on boolean names.

## OPTIONS

- *-h, --help*

  Display help message

- *-a, --all*

  Display all boolean descriptions

- *-b, --boolean*

  boolean to get description

## EXAMPLE

```
List descriptions of samba_create_home_dirs and samba_enable_home_dirs booleans
# sepolicy booleans -b samba_create_home_dirs samba_enable_home_dirs
```

## AUTHOR

This man page was written by Daniel Walsh \<dwalsh@redhat.com\>

## SEE ALSO

[sepolicy(8)](/sepolicy/8.md), [selinux(8)](/selinux/8.md), [getsebool(8)](/getsebool/8.md), [setsebool(8)](/setsebool/8.md)