gconfd_selinux(8)

🎀 gconfd_selinux — the manual page, but make it a group chat 🎀

okay so bestie, this is the gconfd_selinux(8) page from the SELinux Policy gconfd family — yes it's a whole manpage about the gconfd processes, and honestly? it's giving "niche but iconic". let's get into it 💅

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✨ NAME ✨

gconfd_selinux — Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the gconfd processes. that's it, that's the name, no cap 🫶

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

Security-Enhanced Linux secures the gconfd processes via flexible mandatory access control. like, it's literally out here protecting them with vibes and rules 💖

The gconfd processes execute with the gconfd_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 gconfd_t

run that and see who's showing up in the gconfd_t domain. iykyk 🔥

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🦋 ENTRYPOINTS 🦋

The gconfd_t SELinux type can be entered via the gconfd_exec_t file type.

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

and then… nothing? yeah, the list is literally empty in the original. no paths listed, no default entrypoint paths. not me noticing the plot hole 😭 — I'm keeping it exactly as it is, bestie, don't come for me.

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👑 PROCESS TYPES 👑

SELinux defines process types (domains) for each process running on the system. yes, every single one gets its own little domain, main character energy for everyone 🌈

You can see the context of a process using the -Z option to ps.

Policy governs the access confined processes have to files. SELinux gconfd policy is very flexible allowing users to setup their gconfd processes in as secure a method as possible. flexible and secure, we love a multitasker ⭐

The following process types are defined for gconfd:

• gconfd_t
• gconfdefaultsm_t

Note: semanage permissive -a gconfd_t can be used to make the process type gconfd_t permissive. SELinux does not deny access to permissive process types, but the AVC (SELinux denials) messages are still generated. so it stops blocking but it still snitches in the logs 💀

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💜 BOOLEANS 💜

SELinux policy is customizable based on least access required. gconfd policy is extremely flexible and has several booleans that allow you to manipulate the policy and run gconfd with the tightest access possible. tightest access = the most locked-down, most guarded, most "no you may not" vibe 🎀

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

the -P is doing the heavy lifting there so it actually sticks across reboots, slay ✨

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🍓 MANAGED FILES 🍓

The SELinux process type gconfd_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 handing you the keys does not mean regular Unix perms are gonna let you in — both checks have to pass, fr fr 🔥

• gconf_home_t

/root/.local(/.*)?
/root/.gconf(d)?(/.*)?
/home/[^/]+/.local(/.*)?
/home/[^/]+/.gconf(d)?(/.*)?

• gconf_tmp_t

/tmp/gconfd-[^/]+/.*

those regex-y paths are literal, character for character, so copy them exactly if you're using them 🙈

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🧚 FILE CONTEXTS 🧚

SELinux requires files to have an extended attribute to define the file type. yes, files get little name tags too, we love an accessory 💖

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

⭐ STANDARD FILE CONTEXT ⭐

SELinux defines the file context types for the gconfd, 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 gconfd_exec_t '/srv/gconfd/content(/.*)?'
restorecon -R -v /srv/mygconfd_content

Note: SELinux often uses regular expressions to specify labels that match multiple files. regex jumpscare, but make it functional 🦋

The following file types are defined for gconfd:

• gconfd_exec_t
  • Set files with the gconfd_exec_t type, if you want to transition an executable to the gconfd_t domain.
• gconfdefaultsm_exec_t
  • Set files with the gconfdefaultsm_exec_t type, if you want to transition an executable to the gconfdefaultsm_t domain. this one transitions to gconfdefaultsm_t, not gconfd_t — read it twice, bestie, it's a whole different 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. chcon is the temporary tattoo, semanage fcontext + restorecon is the real ink 💅

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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. a whole GUI, for when the terminal is doing too much 😭

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💀 AUTHOR 💀

This manual page was auto-generated using sepolicy manpage. a bot wrote this and honestly it ate 🤖✨

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

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

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and that's the whole page, bestie 🫶 this was gconfd, dated 26-10-06, living its best life as gconfd_selinux(8). go forth and label responsibly, periodt 💜🌸