{"id":9134,"date":"2026-10-24T22:01:19","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T19:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/support-articles\/how-to-stop-or-disable-services-of-elements-epp-for-service-linux-linux-security-64-successfully\/"},"modified":"2026-10-24T22:01:19","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T19:01:19","slug":"how-to-stop-or-disable-services-of-elements-epp-for-service-linux-linux-security-64-successfully","status":"publish","type":"support_article","link":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/fi\/support-articles\/how-to-stop-or-disable-services-of-elements-epp-for-service-linux-linux-security-64-successfully\/","title":{"rendered":"How to stop or disable services of Elements EPP for Service (Linux) \/ Linux Security 64 successfully?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Issue:<\/h3>\n<p>How to stop or disable services of Elements EPP for Service (Linux) \/ Linux Security 64 successfully?<br \/>Running the &quot;master-switch&quot; command alone is not permitted.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3>Resolution:<\/h3>\n<p>It is possible to stop or disable the services of Elements EPP for Servers (Linux) or Linux Security 64 on your Linux server by using the &quot;\/opt\/f-secure\/fsbg\/bin\/master-switch&quot; command.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Command to disable the services:<\/strong><br \/><em>\/opt\/f-secure\/fsbg\/bin\/master-switch off<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Command to enable the services:<\/strong><br \/><em>\/opt\/f-secure\/fsbg\/bin\/master-switch on<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Command to check the status:<\/strong><br \/><em>\/opt\/f-secure\/fsbg\/bin\/master-switch status<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In order to run this command successfully, there is a need to enable the setting of &quot;Allow user to turn off all security features&quot; in the profile by performing the steps below.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For Elements EPP for Servers (Linux):<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Login to Elements Security Center<\/li>\n<li>Go to the <strong>Security Configurations &gt; Profiles<\/strong> page<\/li>\n<li>Under <strong>For Linux<\/strong>, select your Linux profile name<\/li>\n<li>Go to <strong>General &gt; Tamper protection<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Enable the &quot;<strong>Allow user to turn off all security features<\/strong>&quot; setting<\/li>\n<li>Click on &quot;<strong>Save profile&quot;<\/strong> button to apply the changes<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Now the master-switch can be used to turn off all the security features of Elements Linux Protection.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For Linux Security 64:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Log in to the Policy Manager Console<\/li>\n<li>Select a host or policy domain from the domain tree<\/li>\n<li>Go to the <strong>Settings <\/strong>tab<\/li>\n<li>Navigate to the <strong>Linux &gt; Centralized management <\/strong>settings page<\/li>\n<li>In the <strong>Bypass Product Security<\/strong> section, Set <strong>Allow user to unload products <\/strong>as\u00a0 &quot;Always allowed&quot;\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Distribute the policy (Ctrl + D)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Now a local admin user can use the master-switch to turn off all the security features of Linux Security 64.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to stop or disable services of Elements EPP for Service (Linux) \/ Linux Security 64 successfully?<br \/>\nRunning the &#8221;master-switch&#8221; command alone is not permitted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","support_article_product":[106],"class_list":["post-9134","support_article","type-support_article","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"source_foreign_id":"000010483","source_version":1,"source_system":"salesforce","source_date_updated":"2026-10-24 19:01:19","import_hash":"f9554b1d704d725df0e383552cbba9a3399d9947","vanilla_article_id":"","vanilla_url":"","vanilla_kb_id":"","vanilla_category_id":"","machine_translated":false,"reactions_helpful_yes":"","reactions_helpful_no":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/support_article\/9134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/support_article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/support_article"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"support_article_product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/support_article_product?post=9134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}