bitlbee_selinux(8)

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💖 NAME 💖

okay bestie, this is bitlbee_selinux — aka bitlbee_selinux(8) — the manual page for the “SELinux Policy bitlbee” situation. We’re talking about the Security Enhanced Linux policy for the bitlbee processes, and it’s giving secure, confined, very demure. ✨

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

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

The bitlbee processes execute with the bitlbee_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 bitlbee_t

🌸 ENTRYPOINTS 🌸

The bitlbee_t SELinux type can be entered via the bitlbee_exec_t file type.

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

  • /usr/bin/bip
  • /usr/bin/bitlbee

👑 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. The SELinux bitlbee policy is very flexible and allows users to set up their bitlbee processes in as secure a method as possible.

The following process types are defined for bitlbee:

  • bitlbee_t
🫶 Note: semanage permissive -a bitlbee_t can be used to make the process type bitlbee_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. The bitlbee policy is extremely flexible and has several booleans that allow you to manipulate the policy and run bitlbee 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. Enabled by default. Run: setsebool -P daemons_dontaudit_scheduling 1
  • fips_mode — if you want to allow all domains to execute in fips_mode, you must turn on this boolean. Enabled by default. Run: setsebool -P fips_mode 1
  • nis_enabled — if you want to allow system to run with NIS, you must turn on this boolean. Disabled by default. Run: setsebool -P nis_enabled 1

🦋 MANAGED FILES 🦋

The SELinux process type bitlbee_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.

  • bitlbee_tmp_t
  • bitlbee_tmpfs_t
  • bitlbee_var_run_t
    • /run/bip(/.*)?
    • /run/bitlbee(/.*)?
  • bitlbee_var_t
    • /var/lib/bitlbee(/.*)?
  • 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. The SELinux bitlbee policy is very flexible and allows users to set up their bitlbee processes in as secure a method as possible.

💖 STANDARD FILE CONTEXT 💖

SELinux defines the file context types for bitlbee. 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 bitlbee_exec_t '/srv/bitlbee/content(/.*)?'
restorecon -R -v /srv/mybitlbee_content
🌈 Note: SELinux often uses regular expressions to specify labels that match multiple files.

The following file types are defined for bitlbee:

  • bitlbee_conf_t — set files with the bitlbee_conf_t type if you want to treat the files as bitlbee configuration data, usually stored under the /etc directory.
  • bitlbee_exec_t — set files with the bitlbee_exec_t type if you want to transition an executable to the bitlbee_t domain.

Paths:

  • /usr/bin/bip
  • /usr/bin/bitlbee
  • bitlbee_initrc_exec_t — set files with the bitlbee_initrc_exec_t type if you want to transition an executable to the bitlbee_initrc_t domain.
  • bitlbee_log_t — set files with the bitlbee_log_t type if you want to treat the data as bitlbee log data, usually stored under the /var/log directory.
  • bitlbee_tmp_t — set files with the bitlbee_tmp_t type if you want to store bitlbee temporary files in the /tmp directories.
  • bitlbee_tmpfs_t — set files with the bitlbee_tmpfs_t type if you want to store bitlbee files on a tmpfs file system.
  • bitlbee_var_run_t — set files with the bitlbee_var_run_t type if you want to store the bitlbee files under the /run or /var/run directory.

Paths:

  • /run/bip(/.*)?
  • /run/bitlbee(/.*)?
  • bitlbee_var_t — set files with the bitlbee_var_t type if you want to store the bit files under the /var 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 🌈

🎀 that’s the whole page, bestie! source/version: bitlbee · date: 26-10-06 · manual: bitlbee_selinux(8) — now go be iconic with your labels ✨💖
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