consolekit_selinux(8)

💅 consolekit_selinux(8) — the consolekit SELinux glow-up guide ✨

okay bestie, so this is the consolekit_selinux(8) page — it's the SELinux policy manual for the consolekit processes, and honestly it's giving "mandatory access control but make it fashion" 🎀 let's get into it.

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✨ NAME ✨

consolekit_selinux — Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the consolekit processes 🦋

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

Security-Enhanced Linux secures the consolekit processes via flexible mandatory access control. No cap, that's the whole vibe — SELinux is the bouncer at the club and consolekit is on the list 💅

The consolekit processes execute with the consolekit_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 consolekit_t

like literally just run that and see who's in the consolekit_t domain, periodt 💖

🦋 ENTRYPOINTS 🦋

The consolekit_t SELinux type can be entered via the consolekit_exec_t file type.

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

/usr/bin/console-kit-daemon

so that's the door you gotta walk through to become consolekit_t, iykyk 🚪✨

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

The following process types are defined for consolekit:

consolekit_t

Note: semanage permissive -a consolekit_t can be used to make the process type consolekit_t permissive. SELinux does not deny access to permissive process types, but the AVC (SELinux denials) messages are still generated. 🙈 so like it's not a free pass, it just stops the blocking — the receipts still get printed bestie.

🍓 BOOLEANS 🍓

SELinux policy is customizable based on least access required. consolekit policy is extremely flexible and has several booleans that allow you to manipulate the policy and run consolekit with the tightest access possible. least privilege but make it cute 💜

If you want to dontaudit all daemons scheduling requests (setsched, sys_nice), you must turn on the daemons_dontaudit_scheduling boolean. Enabled by default.

setsebool -P daemons_dontaudit_scheduling 1

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

If you want to allow system to run with NIS, you must turn on the nis_enabled boolean. Disabled by default.

setsebool -P nis_enabled 1

If you want to allow regular users direct dri device access, you must turn on the selinuxuser_direct_dri_enabled boolean. Disabled by default.

setsebool -P selinuxuser_direct_dri_enabled 1

If you want to allows clients to write to the X server shared memory segments, you must turn on the xserver_clients_write_xshm boolean. Disabled by default.

setsebool -P xserver_clients_write_xshm 1

the -P is the "make it permanent bestie" flag, don't forget it 🫶

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🌈 MANAGED FILES 🌈

The SELinux process type consolekit_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. like SELinux said yes but your regular old file permissions still get a vote, fr fr 🔥

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

consolekit_log_t

/var/log/ConsoleKit(/.*)?

consolekit_var_run_t

/run/ConsoleKit(/.*)?
/run/consolekit.pid
/run/console-kit-daemon.pid

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

pam_var_console_t

/run/console(/.*)?

root_t

/sysroot/.aleph-version.json
/sysroot/ostree/deploy/.*-atomic/deploy(/.*)?
/
/initrd
/var/lib/ntp

systemd_passwd_var_run_t

/run/systemd/ask-password(/.*)?
/run/systemd/ask-password-block(/.*)?

user_fonts_cache_t

/root/.fontconfig(/.*)?
/root/.fonts/auto(/.*)?
/root/.fonts.cache-.*
/root/.cache/fontconfig(/.*)?
/home/[^/]+/.fontconfig(/.*)?
/home/[^/]+/.fonts/auto(/.*)?
/home/[^/]+/.fonts.cache-.*
/home/[^/]+/.cache/fontconfig(/.*)?

wtmp_t

/var/log/wtmp.*

wtmpdb_journal_t

/var/lib/wtmpdb/wtmp.db-journal

wtmpdb_t

/var/lib/wtmpdb(/.*)?

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🧚 FILE CONTEXTS 🧚

SELinux requires files to have an extended attribute to define the file type. yes bestie, files have vibes too and the vibe is stored in an xattr 💅

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

⭐ STANDARD FILE CONTEXT ⭐

SELinux defines the file context types for the consolekit, 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 consolekit_exec_t '/srv/consolekit/content(/.*)?'
restorecon -R -v /srv/myconsolekit_content

Note: SELinux often uses regular expressions to specify labels that match multiple files. 🦋 regex girlies stay winning.

The following file types are defined for consolekit:

• consolekit_exec_t — Set files with the consolekit_exec_t type, if you want to transition an executable to the consolekit_t domain.
• consolekit_log_t — Set files with the consolekit_log_t type, if you want to treat the data as consolekit log data, usually stored under the /var/log directory.
• consolekit_tmpfs_t — Set files with the consolekit_tmpfs_t type, if you want to store consolekit files on a tmpfs file system.
• consolekit_unit_file_t — Set files with the consolekit_unit_file_t type, if you want to treat the files as consolekit unit content.
• consolekit_var_run_t — Set files with the consolekit_var_run_t type, if you want to store the consolekit files under the /run or /var/run directory.

Paths for consolekit_var_run_t:

/run/ConsoleKit(/.*)?
/run/consolekit.pid
/run/console-kit-daemon.pid

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. 😭 temporary vs permanent is literally the whole plot of this show — chcon is the situationship, semanage fcontext + restorecon is the committed relationship 💖

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💀 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.

like yes bestie, there's a GUI, you don't have to rawdog the terminal if you don't want to 🫶

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🎀 AUTHOR 🎀

This manual page was auto-generated using sepolicy manpage.

(so nobody hand-wrote this one, it's a robot's magnum opus ✨)

🌟 SEE ALSO 🌟

selinux(8), consolekit(8), semanage(8), restorecon(8), chcon(1), sepolicy(8), setsebool(8)

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and that's the whole page, bestie 🦋💜 it's from consolekit, version 26-10-06, dated 26-10-06 — go forth and label things correctly, mwah 💋👑