# selinux – Change policy and state of SELinux

- Synopsis

- Requirements

- Parameters

- Examples

- Return Values

- Status

## Synopsis

- Configures the SELinux mode and policy.

- A reboot may be required after usage.

- Ansible will not issue this reboot but will let you know when it is required.

## Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

- libselinux-python

## Parameters

Parameter | Choices/Defaults | Comments
--- | --- | ---
configfile - | Default: "/etc/selinux/config" | The path to the SELinux configuration file, if non-standard. aliases: conf, file
policy - |  | The name of the SELinux policy to use (e.g. `targeted`) will be required if state is not `disabled`.

state
- / required

Choices:
- disabled
- enforcing
- permissive

The SELinux mode.

## Examples

    - name: Enable SELinux
      selinux:
        policy: targeted
        state: enforcing

    - name: Put SELinux in permissive mode, logging actions that would be blocked.
      selinux:
        policy: targeted
        state: permissive

    - name: Disable SELinux
      selinux:
        state: disabled

## Return Values

Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:

Key | Returned | Description
--- | --- | ---
configfile string | always | Path to SELinux configuration file. Sample: /etc/selinux/config
msg string | always | Messages that describe changes that were made. Sample: Config SELinux state changed from 'disabled' to 'permissive'
policy string | always | Name of the SELinux policy. Sample: targeted
reboot_required boolean | always | Whether or not an reboot is required for the changes to take effect. Sample: True
state string | always | SELinux mode. Sample: enforcing

## Status

- This module is guaranteed to have backward compatible interface changes going forward. [stableinterface]

- This module is maintained by the Ansible Core Team. [core]

### Red Hat Support

More information about Red Hat’s support of this module is available from this Red Hat Knowledge Base article.

### Authors

- Derek Carter (@goozbach) <goozbach@friocorte.com>

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