Set Enforcing And Permissive Modes For Selinux

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Modes

Enforcing ⇒ SELinux is enabled and will restrict.
Permissive ⇒ SELinux is enabled and will log only. (Will not actually restrict anything)
Disabled ⇒ SELinux is disabled and will not log or restrict.

Get current SELinux mode

getenforce
OR
sestatus

Temporary: Set Permissive (Monitor and Report)

setenforce 0

Temporary: Set SELinux to Enforce

setenforce 1

Persistent: SELinux Config File

/etc/selinux/config
 
SELINUX=enforcing