getenforce(8) SELinux Command Line documentation getenforce(8)

# [NAME](#NAME)

getenforce - get the current mode of SELinux

# [SYNOPSIS](#SYNOPSIS)

**getenforce**

# [DESCRIPTION](#DESCRIPTION)

**getenforce** reports whether SELinux is enforcing, permissive, or disabled.

# [AUTHOR](#AUTHOR)

Dan Walsh, <dwalsh@redhat.com>

# [SEE ALSO](#SEE_ALSO)

[**selinux**(8)](/man/os/libselinux/selinux.8), [**setenforce**(8)](/man/os/libselinux/setenforce.8), [**selinuxenabled**(8)](/man/os/libselinux/selinuxenabled.8)

7 April 2004 dwalsh@redhat.com

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Document: getenforce(8) from libselinux 3.11-r2 (Chainguard OS)
Source: https://github.com/SELinuxProject/selinux.git