entropyd_selinux(8)

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💖 NAME 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to entropyd_selinux(8) — yes, that's the manual name, and it's giving Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the entropyd processes 💅. That's literally what this whole page is about.

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

Security-Enhanced Linux keeps the entropyd processes on lock via flexible mandatory access control. 🔥

The entropyd processes execute with the entropyd_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 entropyd_t

🦋 ENTRYPOINTS 🦋

The entropyd_t SELinux type can be entered via the entropyd_exec_t file type.

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

/usr/bin/haveged, /usr/bin/audio-entropyd

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

The following process types are defined for entropyd:

  • entropyd_t — the main character process type, periodt 👑
Note: semanage permissive -a entropyd_t can be used to make the process type entropyd_t permissive. SELinux does not deny access to permissive process types, but the AVC (SELinux denials) messages are still generated. So like… permissive is not a free pass, bestie 😭

🎀 BOOLEANS 🎀

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

  • entropyd_use_audio — if you want to determine whether entropyd can use audio devices as the source for the entropy feeds, you must turn on the entropyd_use_audio boolean. Enabled by default. Flip it with setsebool -P entropyd_use_audio 1 🎧
  • daemons_dontaudit_scheduling — if you want to dontaudit all daemons scheduling requests (setsched, sys_nice), you must turn on the daemons_dontaudit_scheduling boolean. Enabled by default. Flip it with setsebool -P daemons_dontaudit_scheduling 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. Flip it with setsebool -P fips_mode 1 🔐
  • nis_enabled — if you want to allow system to run with NIS, you must turn on the nis_enabled boolean. Disabled by default. Flip it with setsebool -P nis_enabled 1 🌐

💜 MANAGED FILES 💜

The SELinux process type entropyd_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.

  • cluster_conf_t — default paths:
/etc/cluster(/.*)?
  • cluster_var_lib_t — default paths:
/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 — default paths:
/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
  • entropyd_tmpfs_t — no default paths are listed here.
  • entropyd_var_run_t — default paths:
/run/haveged.pid
/run/audio-entropyd.pid
  • krb5_host_rcache_t — default paths:
/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 — default paths:
/sysroot/.aleph-version.json
/sysroot/ostree/deploy/.*-atomic/deploy(/.*)?
/
/initrd
/var/lib/ntp
  • tmpfs_t — default paths:
/dev/shm
/run/shm
/usr/lib/udev/devices/shm

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

🌈 STANDARD FILE CONTEXT 🌈

SELinux defines the file context types for the entropyd. 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 entropyd_exec_t '/srv/entropyd/content(/.*)?'
restorecon -R -v /srv/myentropyd_content
Note: SELinux often uses regular expressions to specify labels that match multiple files. iykyk 🫶

The following file types are defined for entropyd:

  • entropyd_exec_t — set files with the entropyd_exec_t type, if you want to transition an executable to the entropyd_t domain.

Paths:

/usr/bin/haveged, /usr/bin/audio-entropyd
  • entropyd_initrc_exec_t — set files with the entropyd_initrc_exec_t type, if you want to transition an executable to the entropyd_initrc_t domain.
  • entropyd_tmpfs_t — set files with the entropyd_tmpfs_t type, if you want to store entropyd files on a tmpfs file system.
  • entropyd_var_run_t — set files with the entropyd_var_run_t type, if you want to store the entropyd files under the /run or /var/run directory.

Paths:

/run/haveged.pid, /run/audio-entropyd.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. No cap, that's the whole glow-up pipeline 💅

⭐ 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), entropyd(8), semanage(8), restorecon(8), chcon(1), sepolicy(8), setsebool(8) 🌟

xoxo, your entropyd_selinux(8) bestie 💖 — source/version: entropyd; date: 26-10-06 ✨

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