auditctl_selinux(8)

💖 NAME 💖

auditctl_selinux — Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the auditctl processes. This is the auditctl_selinux(8) manual page, and the policy name is auditctl 💅

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

Security-Enhanced Linux secures the auditctl processes via flexible mandatory access control. No cap.

The auditctl processes execute with the auditctl_t SELinux type. Wanna check if you have these processes running? Execute the ps command with the -Z qualifier. For example:

ps -eZ | grep auditctl_t

🚪 ENTRYPOINTS 🚪

The auditctl_t SELinux type can be entered via the auditctl_exec_t file type.

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

/usr/bin/auditctl

👑 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 auditctl policy is very flexible, allowing users to set up their auditctl processes in as secure a method as possible.

The following process types are defined for auditctl:

• auditctl_t

Note: semanage permissive -a auditctl_t can be used to make the process type auditctl_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. auditctl policy is extremely flexible and has several booleans that allow you to manipulate the policy and run auditctl with the tightest access possible.

If you want to allow all domains to execute in fips_mode, you must turn on the fips_mode boolean. Enabled by default.

setsebool -P fips_mode 1

🗂️ 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 auditctl policy is very flexible, allowing users to set up their auditctl processes in as secure a method as possible.

🧸 STANDARD FILE CONTEXT 🧸

SELinux defines the file context types for auditctl. If you wanted to store files with these types in 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 auditctl_exec_t '/srv/auditctl/content(/.*)?'
restorecon -R -v /srv/myauditctl_content

Note: SELinux often uses regular expressions to specify labels that match multiple files.

The following file types are defined for auditctl:

• auditctl_exec_t — Set files with the auditctl_exec_t type, if you want to transition an executable to the auditctl_t domain.

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 🔗

• selinux(8)
• auditctl(8)
• semanage(8)
• restorecon(8)
• chcon(1)
• sepolicy(8)
• setsebool(8)

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Cute sign-off: source/version auditctl, date 26-10-06, page id auditctl_selinux(8) 🫶✨