irssi_selinux(8)

💅 irssi_selinux(8) — the irssi_selinux page, but make it make sense

okay bestie, so this is the manual page for irssi_selinux — yes it's irssi_selinux(8), section 8, we love a section-8 moment 💖 — and it's all about the SELinux policy that wraps around your irssi processes. grab a strawberry drink 🍓 and let's get into it.

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✨ NAME ✨

irssi_selinux — the Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the irssi processes. that's the whole vibe. no cap.

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Security-Enhanced Linux secures the irssi processes via flexible mandatory access control. literally that's its whole job, and it ate. 🔥

The irssi processes execute with the irssi_t SELinux type. wanna check if you've got these processes running? just run the ps command with the -Z qualifier. easy.

For example:

ps -eZ | grep irssi_t

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🎀 ENTRYPOINTS 🎀

The irssi_t SELinux type can be entered via the irssi_exec_t file type. that's the doorway, iykyk.

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

and then… nothing. the list is literally empty in the original, bestie. not me leaving you on read 😭💀 that's just how the page is. no paths listed, periodt.

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👑 PROCESS TYPES 👑

SELinux defines process types (domains) for each process running on the system. one process, one little domain vibe check.

You can see the context of a process using the -Z option to ps. highly recommend, it's giving detective energy 🔍

Policy governs the access confined processes have to files. The SELinux irssi policy is very flexible, allowing users to set up their irssi processes in as secure a method as possible. flexible and secure? we love a dual-threat icon ✨

The following process types are defined for irssi:

• irssi_t

Note: semanage permissive -a irssi_t can be used to make the process type irssi_t permissive. SELinux does not deny access to permissive process types, but the AVC (SELinux denials) messages are still generated. so like… it won't block you, but it will still tell on you 🙈 keep that in mind.

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🌈 BOOLEANS 🌈

SELinux policy is customizable based on least access required. the irssi policy is extremely flexible and has several booleans that allow you to manipulate the policy and run irssi with the tightest access possible. tightest access = main character security 🫶

• irssi_use_full_network — if you want to allow the Irssi IRC Client to connect to any port, and to bind to any unreserved port, you must turn on the irssi_use_full_network boolean. Disabled by default.

setsebool -P irssi_use_full_network 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.

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.

setsebool -P nis_enabled 1

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🧚 MANAGED FILES 🧚

The SELinux process type irssi_t can manage files labeled with the following file types. The paths listed are the default paths for these file types. heads up: the process's UID still needs to have DAC permissions — SELinux isn't about to override that for you, bestie.

• cifs_t — no default paths listed.
• ecryptfs_t

/home/[^/]+/.Private(/.*)?
/home/[^/]+/.ecryptfs(/.*)?

• fusefs_t

/run/user/[0-9]+/gvfs

• irssi_home_t — no default paths listed.
• 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

• nfs_t — no default paths listed.

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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 the girlies who like buttons 🎀

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🌸 AUTHOR 🌸

This manual page was auto-generated using sepolicy manpage . — yes, the robots wrote it, and honestly? they snapped. ⭐

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⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

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

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and that's the whole page, bestie 💅✨ this lil masterpiece came from irssi, dated 26-10-06 — and if you ever need to pull it back up, the title you're looking for is irssi_selinux(8). mwah, go forth and be secure 🫶💖