semanage-boolean(8)

💖 semanage-boolean 💖

okay bestie, so this is the manual page for semanage-boolean — the SELinux Policy Management boolean tool ✨ it lives in section 8 of the manual (that's the sysadmin section, iykyk) 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

semanage-boolean — SELinux Policy Management boolean tool 🦋

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

semanage boolean [-h] [-n] [-N] [-S STORE] [ --extract | --deleteall |
--list [-C] | --modify ( --on | --off ) boolean ]

like… that's the whole shape of it, bestie 💅

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💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

so semanage is the tool you use to configure certain elements of SELinux policy without needing to modify or recompile anything from the policy sources — no rebuild arc, no drama, we just change the thing 🔥

and the semanage boolean command specifically? it controls the settings of booleans in SELinux policy. and booleans are literally if-then-else rules written in SELinux Policy 👑 they're the little switches that let you customize the way SELinux Policy rules affect a confined domain. very main character energy of them honestly 🫶

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• -h, --help — shows this help message and then dips, exit stage left 😌
• -n, --noheading — don't print the heading when you're listing the specified object type. minimalism, we love her ✨
• -N, --noreload — don't reload policy after commit. like, just leave it 🫣
• -S STORE, --store STORE — pick an alternate SELinux Policy Store to manage. choose your own adventure 💫
• -C, --locallist — list local customizations 🍓
• -m, --modify — modify a record of the specified object type. glow up time 💅
• -l, --list — list records of the specified object type 👀
• -E, --extract — extract customizable commands, for use within a transaction 🧚
• -D, --deleteall — remove all local customizations. everything. gone. 💀
• -1, --on — enable the boolean 🔛
• -0, --off — disable the boolean 🔴

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🌈 EXAMPLE 🌈

turn on the "apache can send mail" boolean — this is the persistent version of #setsebool httpd_can_sendmail on 📧

# semanage boolean -m --on httpd_can_sendmail

list customized booleans 📝

# semanage boolean -l -C

ate, no crumbs 🍽️✨

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

selinux(8), semanage(8), setsebool(8), getsebool(8) — go read the girlies too, they're all connected fr fr 💞

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

this man page was written by Daniel Walsh <dwalsh@redhat.com> — thank you for your service, legend 🫡💖

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and that's the whole thing!! this page comes from semanage-boolean(8), dated 20130617 — so it's been out here being iconic since way back, and it still hits 💅✨ bye bestie, go flip some booleans 🎀