awstats_selinux(8)

🎀 awstats_selinux(8) — SELinux policy for awstats, bestie edition 🎀

okay so this is the awstats_selinux(8) manual page, and it's literally all about the SELinux policy for awstats. It's giving security-bouncer energy, and we are keeping every single deet intact. No cap. 💅

🌸 NAME 🌸

awstats_selinux — Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the awstats processes. Yes bestie, that's the whole name section, we respect the classic manpage vibe. 🫶

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

Security-Enhanced Linux secures the awstats processes via flexible mandatory access control. That's the mood: SELinux is out here flexing mandatory access control so awstats stays in its lane. 💖

The awstats processes execute with the awstats_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 awstats_t

🦋 ENTRYPOINTS 🦋

The awstats_t SELinux type can be entered via the awstats_exec_t file type.

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

/usr/share/awstats/tools/.+.pl

👑 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 awstats policy is very flexible allowing users to setup their awstats processes in as secure a method as possible.

The following process types are defined for awstats:

awstats_t, awstats_script_t

💡 Note: semanage permissive -a awstats_t can be used to make the process type awstats_t permissive. SELinux does not deny access to permissive process types, but the AVC (SELinux denials) messages are still generated. So like, permissive does not mean invisible, bestie. 😭

🍓 BOOLEANS 🍓

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

• awstats_purge_apache_log_files — If you want to determine whether awstats can purge httpd log files, you must turn on the awstats_purge_apache_log_files boolean. Disabled by default. Turn it on with setsebool -P awstats_purge_apache_log_files 1.
• fips_mode — If you want to allow all domains to execute in fips_mode, you must turn on the fips_mode boolean. Enabled by default. Command is setsebool -P fips_mode 1.
• nscd_use_shm — If you want to allow confined applications to use nscd shared memory, you must turn on the nscd_use_shm boolean. Enabled by default. Command is setsebool -P nscd_use_shm 1.

💜 MANAGED FILES 💜

The SELinux process type awstats_t can manage files labeled with the following file types. The paths listed are the default paths for these file types. Note the processes UID still need to have DAC permissions.

• awstats_tmp_t
• awstats_var_lib_t
  • /var/lib/awstats(/.*)?

🌈 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 awstats policy is very flexible allowing users to setup their awstats processes in as secure a method as possible.

🎀 STANDARD FILE CONTEXT 🎀

SELinux defines the file context types for the awstats. 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 awstats_exec_t '/srv/awstats/content(/.*)?'
restorecon -R -v /srv/myawstats_content

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

The following file types are defined for awstats:

• awstats_content_t — Set files with the awstats_content_t type, if you want to treat the files as awstats content.
• awstats_exec_t — Set files with the awstats_exec_t type, if you want to transition an executable to the awstats_t domain.
• awstats_htaccess_t — Set files with the awstats_htaccess_t type, if you want to treat the file as a awstats access file.
• awstats_ra_content_t — Set files with the awstats_ra_content_t type, if you want to treat the files as awstats read/append content.
• awstats_rw_content_t — Set files with the awstats_rw_content_t type, if you want to treat the files as awstats read/write content.
• awstats_script_exec_t — Set files with the awstats_script_exec_t type, if you want to transition an executable to the awstats_script_t domain.
• awstats_tmp_t — Set files with the awstats_tmp_t type, if you want to store awstats temporary files in the /tmp directories.
• awstats_var_lib_t — Set files with the awstats_var_lib_t type, if you want to store the awstats files under the /var/lib 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. Periodt. 💅

⭐ 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), awstats(8), semanage(8), restorecon(8), chcon(1), sepolicy(8), setsebool(8), awstats_script_selinux(8), awstats_script_selinux(8).

(Yes bestie, awstats_script_selinux(8) is listed twice in the original — iconic duplicate behavior, so we're keeping both. 💀)

💖 cute sign-off: this page is from awstats, dated 26-10-06, and it's the awstats_selinux(8) manual page. byeee, go check your contexts 💖