sestatus - Man Page

SELinux status tool

Examples (TL;DR)

Synopsis

sestatus [-v] [-b]

This tool is used to get the status of a system running SELinux.

Description

This manual page describes the sestatus program.

This tool is used to get the status of a system running SELinux. It displays data about whether SELinux is enabled or disabled, location of key directories, and the loaded policy with its status as shown in the example:

> sestatus
SELinux status:              enabled
SELinuxfs mount:             /selinux
SELinux root directory:      /etc/selinux
Loaded policy name:          targeted
Current mode:                permissive
Mode from config file:       enforcing
Policy MLS status:           enabled
Policy deny_unknown status:  allow
Memory protection checking:  actual (secure)
Max kernel policy version:   26

sestatus can also be used to display:

Options

-v

Displays the contexts of files and processes listed in the /etc/sestatus.conf file. It also checks whether the file is a symbolic link, if so then the context of the target file is also shown.

The following contexts will always be displayed:

The current process context
The init process context
The controlling terminal file context

-b

Display the current state of booleans.

Files

/etc/sestatus.conf

Author

This man page was written by Daniel Walsh <dwalsh@redhat.com>.
The program was written by Chris PeBenito <pebenito@gentoo.org>

See Also

selinux(8), sestatus.conf(5)

Referenced By

secil2conf(8), secilc(8), selinux_config(5), sestatus.conf(5).

26 Nov 2011 Security Enhanced Linux SELinux command line documentation