How to disable SELinux

Question

How do you disable SELinux?

Answer

cPanel & WHM is not compatible with SELinux. Leaving SELinux enabled could cause a myriad of issues or prevent features from working.

1. Access the server's command line as the 'root' user via SSH or Terminal in WHM.
2. Open /etc/selinux/config in your preferred text editor.
3. Find the SELINUX line.

4. Change the value to disabled:

   CONFIG_TEXT: SELINUX=disabled

5. On Enterprise Linux 9 systems (AlmaLinux 9, Rocky Linux 9), the kernel arguments need to be updated as well, which you can do by running the following command:

   # grubby --update-kernel ALL --args selinux=0

6. Reboot the server.

7. After a reboot, the command below can be used to check the status to verify it's disabled:

   # sestatus

Additional Resources

System Requirements: Disable SELinux | cPanel Docs