load_policy_selinux(8)

💖 load_policy_selinux(8) — bestie’s guide 💖

okay so this is the load_policy_selinux(8) page, aka the SELinux Policy load_policy manual. it’s giving very “niche but important” and we’re gonna get through it together. 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

load_policy_selinux — Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the load_policy processes. periodt. 👑

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

Security-Enhanced Linux secures the load_policy processes via flexible mandatory access control. iconic behavior, honestly.

The load_policy processes execute with the load_policy_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 load_policy_t

🚪 ENTRYPOINTS 🚪

The load_policy_t SELinux type can be entered via the load_policy_exec_t file type.

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

/usr/bin/load_policy

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

The following process types are defined for load_policy:

load_policy_t

Note: semanage permissive -a load_policy_t can be used to make the process type load_policy_t permissive. SELinux does not deny access to permissive process types, but the AVC (SELinux denials) messages are still generated. so like, still watch the logs, bestie. 👀

🎚️ BOOLEANS 🎚️

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

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

📂 MANAGED FILES 📂

The SELinux process type load_policy_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. fr fr, SELinux is not out here bypassing DAC. 💅

• boolean_type

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

🎀 STANDARD FILE CONTEXT 🎀

SELinux defines the file context types for the load_policy, 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 load_policy_exec_t
'/srv/load_policy/content(/.*)?'
restorecon -R -v /srv/myload_policy_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 load_policy:

load_policy_exec_t

• Set files with the load_policy_exec_t type, if you want to transition an executable to the load_policy_t 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. no cap, that’s the permanent-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), load_policy(8), semanage(8), restorecon(8), chcon(1), sepolicy(8), setsebool(8)

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okay that’s the whole page bestie 💋 — signing off from source/version load_policy, stamped 26-10-06, on load_policy_selinux(8). mwah! 🎀🦋