insights...t_selinux(8)

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💖 NAME 💖

okay bestie, welcome to insights_client_selinux(8) — the insights_client SELinux Policy page, and yes we're gonna get through every single path and boolean together 💖✨

insights_client_selinux — Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the insights_client processes. That's literally the whole name section, short and iconic 🎀

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

Security-Enhanced Linux secures the insights_client processes via flexible mandatory access control. No cap, that's the vibe.

The insights_client processes execute with the insights_client_t SELinux type. Wanna check if you have these processes running? Run ps with the -Z qualifier, like this:

ps -eZ | grep insights_client_t

🚪 ENTRYPOINTS 🚪

The insights_client_t SELinux type can be entered via the insights_client_exec_t file type.

The default entrypoint paths for the insights_client_t domain are:

  • /usr/bin/insights-client
  • /usr/bin/redhat-access-insights

👑 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 insights_client policy is very flexible, allowing users to set up their insights_client processes in as secure a method as possible.

The following process types are defined for insights_client:

  • insights_client_t
Note: semanage permissive -a insights_client_t can be used to make the process type insights_client_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 insights_client policy is extremely flexible and has several booleans that let you manipulate the policy and run insights_client with the tightest access possible.

  • If you want to dontaudit all daemons scheduling requests (setsched, sys_nice), you must turn on the daemons_dontaudit_scheduling boolean. It's 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. It's 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. It's disabled by default.
setsebool -P nis_enabled 1

🗂️ MANAGED FILES 🗂️

The SELinux process type insights_client_t can manage files labeled with the following file types. The paths listed are the default paths for these file types. Note: the process's UID still needs DAC permissions.

  • cluster_conf_t — /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
  • faillog_t — default paths:
    • /var/log/btmp.*
    • /run/faillock(/.*)?
    • /var/log/faillog.*
    • /var/log/tallylog.*
  • insights_client_run_t — /run/insights-client.pid
  • insights_client_tmp_t
  • insights_client_var_lib_t — /var/lib/insights(/.*)?
  • insights_client_var_log_t — /var/log/insights-client(/.*)?
  • 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

📁 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 insights_client policy is very flexible, allowing users to set up their insights_client processes in as secure a method as possible.

🎀 STANDARD FILE CONTEXT 🎀

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

The following file types are defined for insights_client:

  • insights_client_etc_rw_t — Set files with the insights_client_etc_rw_t type if you want to treat the files as insights client etc read/write content. Paths: /etc/insights-client/machine-id, /etc/insights-client/.cache.json, /etc/insights-client/.lastupload, /etc/insights-client/.registered, /etc/insights-client/.unregistered, /etc/insights-client/.cache.json.asc, /etc/insights-client/.insights-core.etag, /etc/insights-client/.last-upload.results, /etc/insights-client/.insights-core-gpg-sig.etag, /etc/insights-client/insights-client-egg-release
  • insights_client_etc_t — Set files with the insights_client_etc_t type if you want to store insights client files in the /etc directories. Paths: /etc/insights-client/[^/]+, /etc/insights-client
  • insights_client_exec_t — Set files with the insights_client_exec_t type if you want to transition an executable to the insights_client_t domain. Paths: /usr/bin/insights-client, /usr/bin/redhat-access-insights
  • insights_client_run_t — Set files with the insights_client_run_t type if you want to treat the files as insights client run data.
  • insights_client_tmp_t — Set files with the insights_client_tmp_t type if you want to store insights client temporary files in the /tmp directories.
  • insights_client_tmpfs_t — Set files with the insights_client_tmpfs_t type if you want to store insights client files on a tmpfs file system.
  • insights_client_unit_file_t — Set files with the insights_client_unit_file_t type if you want to treat the files as insights client unit content.
  • insights_client_var_lib_t — Set files with the insights_client_var_lib_t type if you want to store the insights client files under the /var/lib directory.
  • insights_client_var_lock_t — Set files with the insights_client_var_lock_t type if you want to treat the files as insights client var lock data, stored under the /var/lock directory.
  • insights_client_var_log_t — Set files with the insights_client_var_log_t type if you want to treat the data as insights client var log data, usually stored under the /var/log 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 ✍️

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🔗 SEE ALSO 🔗

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