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

# setsebool(8)

set SELinux boolean value

## NAME

setsebool - set SELinux boolean value

## SYNOPSIS

**setsebool** *\[ -PNV \] boolean value \| bool1=val1 bool2=val2 ...*

## DESCRIPTION

**setsebool** sets the current state of a particular SELinux boolean or a list of booleans to a given value. The value may be 1 or true or on to enable the boolean, or 0 or false or off to disable it.

Without the -P option, only the current boolean value is affected; the boot-time default settings are not changed.

If the -P option is given, all pending values are written to the policy file on disk. So they will be persistent across reboots.

If the -N option is given, the policy on disk is not reloaded into the kernel.

If the -V option is given, verbose error messages will be printed from semanage libraries.

## EXAMPLE

```
Enable container_use_devices boolean (will return to persistent value after reboot)
# setsebool container_use_devices 1
Persistently enable samba_create_home_dirs and samba_enable_home_dirs booleans
# setsebool -P samba_create_home_dirs=on samba_enable_home_dirs=on
```

## AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Dan Walsh \<dwalsh@redhat.com\>. The program was written by Tresys Technology.

## SEE ALSO

[getsebool(8)](/getsebool/8.md), [booleans(8)](/booleans/8.md), [togglesebool(8)](/togglesebool/8.md), [semanage(8)](/semanage/8.md)