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Topic: Disable SELinux?

==== REQUIRED BASIC INFO OF YOUR IREDMAIL SERVER ====
- iRedMail version (check /etc/iredmail-release):  2018093001 2018-10-15 14:02:41 iRedMail Cloud: https://www.iredmail.org/cloud.html
- Linux/BSD distribution name and version: CentOS 7
- Store mail accounts in which backend (LDAP/MySQL/PGSQL): MariaDB
- Web server (Apache or Nginx):
- Manage mail accounts with iRedAdmin-Pro?
- [IMPORTANT] Related original log or error message is required if you're experiencing an issue.
====

I was wondering WHY SELinux has to be disabled on the server for iRedmail to work?  This is just simply bad practice and shows a little bit of negligence on the part of the developers.

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2 Reply by ZhangHuangbin

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Re: Disable SELinux?

You're free to enable it to harden the security. Would you like to contribute full SELinux support?

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Re: Disable SELinux?

ZhangHuangbin wrote:

You're free to enable it to harden the security. Would you like to contribute full SELinux support?

What does enabling SELinux supposedly break?

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Re: Disable SELinux?

Mostly file permissions, ACL.

If some file was mistakenly configured, and you don't have SELinux in mind, it will drive you crazy to troubleshoot the issue.