arpwatch_selinux(8)

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💅 NAME 💅

arpwatch_selinux — Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the arpwatch processes. Bestie, yes, this is the arpwatch_selinux(8) page, and it's literally all about keeping arpwatch comfy and confined under SELinux. ✨

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

Security-Enhanced Linux secures the arpwatch processes via flexible mandatory access control.

The arpwatch processes execute with the arpwatch_t SELinux type. You can check if you have these processes running by executing the ps command with the -Z qualifier.

For example:

ps -eZ | grep arpwatch_t

🦋 ENTRYPOINTS 🦋

The arpwatch_t SELinux type can be entered via the arpwatch_exec_t file type.

The default entrypoint paths for the arpwatch_t domain are the following:

/usr/bin/arpwatch

👑 PROCESS TYPES 👑

SELinux defines process types (domains) for each process running on the system.

You can see the context of a process using the -Z option to ps.

Policy governs the access confined processes have to files. SELinux arpwatch policy is very flexible, allowing users to setup their arpwatch processes in as secure a method as possible.

The following process types are defined for arpwatch:

  • arpwatch_t
Note: semanage permissive -a arpwatch_t can be used to make the process type arpwatch_t permissive. SELinux does not deny access to permissive process types, but the AVC (SELinux denials) messages are still generated. 💀

✨ BOOLEANS ✨

SELinux policy is customizable based on least access required. arpwatch policy is extremely flexible and has several booleans that allow you to manipulate the policy and run arpwatch with the tightest access possible.

  • daemons_dontaudit_scheduling — if you want to dontaudit all daemons scheduling requests (setsched, sys_nice), you must turn on this boolean. It's enabled by default.
    • setsebool -P daemons_dontaudit_scheduling 1
  • deny_bluetooth — if you want to deny all system processes and Linux users to use bluetooth wireless technology, you must turn on this boolean. It's disabled by default.
    • setsebool -P deny_bluetooth 1
  • fips_mode — if you want to allow all domains to execute in fips_mode, you must turn on this boolean. It's enabled by default.
    • setsebool -P fips_mode 1
  • nis_enabled — if you want to allow system to run with NIS, you must turn on this boolean. It's disabled by default.
    • setsebool -P nis_enabled 1

🎀 MANAGED FILES 🎀

The SELinux process type arpwatch_t can manage files labeled with the following file types. The paths listed are the default paths for these file types. Note: the process's UID still needs to have DAC permissions.

  • arpwatch_data_t
    • /var/arpwatch(/.*)?
    • /var/lib/arpwatch(/.*)?
  • arpwatch_tmp_t — no default paths are listed for this one in the page.
  • arpwatch_var_run_t
    • /run/arpwatch.*.pid
  • cluster_conf_t
    • /etc/cluster(/.*)?
  • cluster_var_lib_t
    • /var/lib/pcsd(/.*)?
    • /var/lib/cluster(/.*)?
    • /var/lib/openais(/.*)?
    • /var/lib/pengine(/.*)?
    • /var/lib/corosync(/.*)?
    • /usr/lib/heartbeat(/.*)?
    • /var/lib/heartbeat(/.*)?
    • /var/lib/pacemaker(/.*)?
  • cluster_var_run_t
    • /run/crm(/.*)?
    • /run/cman_.*
    • /run/rsctmp(/.*)?
    • /run/aisexec.*
    • /run/heartbeat(/.*)?
    • /run/pcsd-ruby.socket
    • /run/corosync-qnetd(/.*)?
    • /run/corosync-qdevice(/.*)?
    • /run/pcsd.socket
    • /run/corosync.pid
    • /run/cpglockd.pid
    • /run/rgmanager.pid
    • /run/cluster/rgmanager.sk
  • krb5_host_rcache_t
    • /var/tmp/krb5_0.rcache2
    • /var/cache/krb5rcache(/.*)?
    • /var/tmp/nfs_0
    • /var/tmp/DNS_25
    • /var/tmp/host_0
    • /var/tmp/imap_0
    • /var/tmp/HTTP_23
    • /var/tmp/HTTP_48
    • /var/tmp/ldap_55
    • /var/tmp/ldap_487
    • /var/tmp/ldapmap1_0
  • root_t
    • /sysroot/.aleph-version.json
    • /sysroot/ostree/deploy/.*-atomic/deploy(/.*)?
    • /
    • /initrd
    • /var/lib/ntp

🌈 FILE CONTEXTS 🌈

SELinux requires files to have an extended attribute to define the file type.

You can see the context of a file using the -Z option to ls.

Policy governs the access confined processes have to these files. SELinux arpwatch policy is very flexible, allowing users to setup their arpwatch processes in as secure a method as possible.

STANDARD FILE CONTEXT

SELinux defines the file context types for the arpwatch. If you wanted to store files with these types in a different paths, you need to execute the semanage command to specify alternate labeling and then use restorecon to put the labels on disk.

semanage fcontext -a -t arpwatch_exec_t '/srv/arpwatch/content(/.*)?'
restorecon -R -v /srv/myarpwatch_content
Note: SELinux often uses regular expressions to specify labels that match multiple files. 🧚

The following file types are defined for arpwatch:

  • arpwatch_data_t — set files with the arpwatch_data_t type if you want to treat the files as arpwatch content.
    • Paths: /var/arpwatch(/.*)?, /var/lib/arpwatch(/.*)?
  • arpwatch_exec_t — set files with the arpwatch_exec_t type if you want to transition an executable to the arpwatch_t domain.
  • arpwatch_initrc_exec_t — set files with the arpwatch_initrc_exec_t type if you want to transition an executable to the arpwatch_initrc_t domain.
  • arpwatch_tmp_t — set files with the arpwatch_tmp_t type if you want to store arpwatch temporary files in the /tmp directories.
  • arpwatch_unit_file_t — set files with the arpwatch_unit_file_t type if you want to treat the files as arpwatch unit content.
  • arpwatch_var_run_t — set files with the arpwatch_var_run_t type if you want to store the arpwatch files under the /run or /var/run directory.
Note: File context can be temporarily modified with the chcon command. If you want to permanently change the file context you need to use the semanage fcontext command. This will modify the SELinux labeling database. You will need to use restorecon to apply the labels. 💖

🔥 COMMANDS 🔥

  • semanage fcontext can also be used to manipulate default file context mappings.
  • semanage permissive can also be used to manipulate whether or not a process type is permissive.
  • semanage module can also be used to enable/disable/install/remove policy modules.
  • semanage boolean can also be used to manipulate the booleans.
  • system-config-selinux is a GUI tool available to customize SELinux policy settings.

🌟 AUTHOR 🌟

This manual page was auto-generated using sepolicy manpage.

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

mwah 💖 this page is from arpwatch, dated 26-10-06, and its manual name is arpwatch_selinux(8). periodt. 🫶

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