How can I Disable SELinux in CentOS 7/6 and Fedora 18-24

The first thing to do is to check the status of SELinux on your system, and you can do this by running the following command:

$ sestatus

Check Status of SELinux

Next, proceed to disabling SELinux on your system, this can be done temporarily or permanently depending on what you want to achieve.

Disable SELinux Temporarily

To disable SELinux temporarily, issue the command below as root:

# echo 0 > /selinux/enforce

Alternatively, you can use the setenforce tool as follows:

# setenforce 0

Else, use the Permissive option instead of 0 as below:

# setenforce Permissive

These methods above will only work until the next reboot, therefore to disable SELinux permanently, move to the next section.

Disable SELinux Permanently

To permanently disable SELinux, use your favorite text editor to open the file /etc/sysconfig/selinux as follows:

# vi /etc/sysconfig/selinux

SELinux Enforcing Mode

Then change the directive SELinux=enforcing to SELinux=disabled as shown in the below image.

SELINUX=disabled

Disable SELinux Permanently

Then, save and exit the file, for the changes to take effect, you need to reboot your system and then check the status of SELinux using sestatus command as shown:

$ sestatus

Check