How to completely disable SELinux in Android L in the init.rc file?

Question

I want to disable SELinux at boot time for Android L or 5. The reason is because my daemon is not begin executed on boot when it should due to SELinux problems. I have the following in my init.rc file:

su 0 setenforce 0
service my_daemon /system/bin/my_daemon 
    class main     # Also tried: class core (but it didn't make a difference)
    user root
    group root

However, on boot, I use adb shell to check if SELinux is disabled (using getenforce) and it returns Enforcing. I want SELinux to be completely disabled on boot. If not completely disabled then at least Permissive.

Any suggestions?

Answer 1

Instead of putting in init.rc you can make it permissive by adding some parameters to kernel command line (BOARD_KERNEL_CMDLINE)

Ex: Add enforcing=0 androidboot.selinux=permissive in device/<manufacturer>/<target>/BoardConfig.mk