How to turn off SELINUX in Red - Hat based distributions including CentOS, Oracle Linux and Fedora?

To check  if SELinux is running execute following command:
# getenforce

To disable it, execute the following command:
# setenforce Permissive

This will put selinux in a passive (allow all) mode and last until the machine is rebooted.
 To permanently disable it, change SELINUX= line in: /etc/sysconfig/selinux.


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