How do I remove any SELinux context or ACL?
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00:00 How Do I Remove Any Selinux Context Or Acl?
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ACCEPTED ANSWER
Score 19
setfacl -b will remove the ACL on a file. setfattr -x security.selinux will remove the SELinux file context, but you will probably have to boot with SELinux completely disabled.
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You never stated what you are removing ACL's "from", but if it is a file system, unmounting it and remounting it without the ACL option will do the job quickly.
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As long as selinux is in permissive or enforcing you will not be able to remove the . This indicates selinux attributes are set. Since Permissive is still doing the selinux checks (just not enforcing) it will force the . on the end of attributes.
To fully remove the dot the only way I know of is to completely stop selinux.
vim /etc/selinux/config and set to disabled. Reboot then run this command on the files you want to remove the . (selinux acl)
setfattr -x security.selinux myfilewithdot
Here is the output from my desktop Centos7 after setting selinux to
setfattr -x security.selinux /foo.txt