logwatch_selinux(8)

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✨ logwatch_selinux(8) — SELinux policy for logwatch, bestie ✨

💖 NAME

logwatch_selinux — Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the logwatch processes.

🌸 DESCRIPTION

Security-Enhanced Linux secures the logwatch processes via flexible mandatory access control. No cap.

The logwatch processes execute with the logwatch_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 logwatch_t

🦋 ENTRYPOINTS

The logwatch_t SELinux type can be entered via the logwatch_exec_t file type.

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

/usr/bin/epylog, /usr/bin/logcheck, /usr/bin/logwatch.pl,
/usr/share/logwatch/scripts/logwatch.pl

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

The following process types are defined for logwatch:

  • logwatch_t
  • logwatch_mail_t
Note: semanage permissive -a logwatch_t can be used to make the process type logwatch_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. logwatch policy is extremely flexible and has several booleans that allow you to manipulate the policy and run logwatch with the tightest access possible.

  • logwatch_can_network_connect_mail — turn this on if you want logwatch to connect to mail over the network. Disabled by default. setsebool -P logwatch_can_network_connect_mail 1
  • daemons_dontaudit_scheduling — turn this on if you want to dontaudit all daemons scheduling requests (setsched, sys_nice). Enabled by default. setsebool -P daemons_dontaudit_scheduling 1
  • fips_mode — turn this on if you want to allow all domains to execute in fips_mode. Enabled by default. setsebool -P fips_mode 1
  • nis_enabled — turn this on if you want to allow the system to run with NIS. Disabled by default. setsebool -P nis_enabled 1
  • use_nfs_home_dirs — turn this on if you want to support NFS home directories. Enabled by default. setsebool -P use_nfs_home_dirs 1
  • use_samba_home_dirs — turn this on if you want to support SAMBA home directories. Disabled by default. setsebool -P use_samba_home_dirs 1

🗂️ MANAGED FILES

The SELinux process type logwatch_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

/etc/cluster(/.*)?

cluster_var_lib_t

/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

/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

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

logwatch_cache_t

/var/lib/epylog(/.*)?
/var/lib/logcheck(/.*)?
/var/cache/logwatch(/.*)?

logwatch_lock_t

/run/lock/logcheck.*

logwatch_tmp_t — no default paths are listed here.

logwatch_var_run_t

/run/epylog.pid

mail_spool_t

/var/mail(/.*)?
/var/spool/imap(/.*)?
/var/spool/mail(/.*)?
/var/spool/smtpd(/.*)?

root_t

/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. SELinux logwatch policy is very flexible, allowing users to setup their logwatch processes in as secure a method as possible.

🎀 STANDARD FILE CONTEXT

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

The following file types are defined for logwatch:

logwatch_cache_t

  • Set files with the logwatch_cache_t type if you want to store the files under the /var/cache directory.

Paths:

/var/lib/epylog(/.*)?, /var/lib/logcheck(/.*)?,
/var/cache/logwatch(/.*)?

logwatch_exec_t

  • Set files with the logwatch_exec_t type if you want to transition an executable to the logwatch_t domain.

Paths:

/usr/bin/epylog, /usr/bin/logcheck, /usr/bin/logwatch.pl,
/usr/share/logwatch/scripts/logwatch.pl

logwatch_lock_t

  • Set files with the logwatch_lock_t type if you want to treat the files as logwatch lock data, stored under the /var/lock directory.

logwatch_mail_tmp_t

  • Set files with the logwatch_mail_tmp_t type if you want to store logwatch mail temporary files in the /tmp directories.

logwatch_tmp_t

  • Set files with the logwatch_tmp_t type if you want to store logwatch temporary files in the /tmp directories.

logwatch_var_run_t

  • Set files with the logwatch_var_run_t type if you want to store the logwatch files under the /run or /var/run 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

This manual page was auto-generated using sepolicy manpage .

⭐ SEE ALSO

mwah 💖 this page’s source/version/date combo is logwatch, 26-10-06, and logwatch_selinux(8). Byeee 🫶

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