selinux_permissive – Change permissive domain in SELinux policy

Synopsis

• Add and remove a domain from the list of permissive domains.

Requirements

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

• policycoreutils-python

Parameters

Parameter	Choices/Defaults	Comments
domain string / required	Default: ""	The domain that will be added or removed from the list of permissive domains. aliases: name
no_reload boolean	Choices: no ← yes	Disable reloading of the SELinux policy after making change to a domain's permissive setting. The default is no, which causes policy to be reloaded when a domain changes state. Reloading the policy does not work on older versions of the policycoreutils-python library, for example in EL 6."
permissive boolean / required	Choices: no yes	Indicate if the domain should or should not be set as permissive.
store string		Name of the SELinux policy store to use.

Notes

Note

• Requires a recent version of SELinux and policycoreutils-python (EL 6 or newer).

Examples

- name: Change the httpd_t domain to permissive
  selinux_permissive:
    name: httpd_t
    permissive: true

Status

• This module is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface. [preview]

• This module is maintained by the Ansible Community. [community]

Authors

• Michael Scherer (@mscherer) <misc@zarb.org>

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