modemmanager_selinux(8)

✨ modemmanager_selinux ✨

okay bestie, so this is the modemmanager_selinux(8) page — it's all about the SELinux policy for the modemmanager processes, and honestly it's giving security queen energy 💅

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🌸 NAME 🌸

modemmanager_selinux — Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the modemmanager processes 🎀

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Security-Enhanced Linux secures the modemmanager processes via flexible mandatory access control. no cap, it's literally the bodyguard of your system 🔥

The modemmanager processes execute with the modemmanager_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 modemmanager_t

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👑 ENTRYPOINTS 👑

The modemmanager_t SELinux type can be entered via the modemmanager_exec_t file type.

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

/usr/bin/ModemManager, /usr/bin/modem-manager

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⭐ 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 modemmanager policy is very flexible allowing users to setup their modemmanager processes in as secure a method as possible. it's giving options, periodt 💖

The following process types are defined for modemmanager:

modemmanager_t

Note: semanage permissive -a modemmanager_t can be used to make the process type modemmanager_t permissive. SELinux does not deny access to permissive process types, but the AVC (SELinux denials) messages are still generated. so like, it's chill but it still tells on you 😭

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🧚 BOOLEANS 🧚

SELinux policy is customizable based on least access required. modemmanager policy is extremely flexible and has several booleans that allow you to manipulate the policy and run modemmanager with the tightest access possible. main character energy fr fr ✨

• If you want to dontaudit all daemons scheduling requests (setsched, sys_nice), you must turn on the daemons_dontaudit_scheduling boolean. 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. Enabled by default.

setsebool -P fips_mode 1

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💜 MANAGED FILES 💜

The SELinux process type modemmanager_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. iykyk 🙈

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

root_t

/sysroot/.aleph-version.json
/sysroot/ostree/deploy/.*-atomic/deploy(/.*)?
/
/initrd
/var/lib/ntp

sysfs_t

/sys(/.*)?

udev_var_run_t

/run/udev(/.*)?
/dev/.udev(/.*)?
/run/libgpod(/.*)?
/run/PackageKit/udev(/.*)?
/dev/.udevdb
/dev/udev.tbl

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

🌟 STANDARD FILE CONTEXT 🌟

SELinux defines the file context types for the modemmanager, 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. slay the labeling game 💅

semanage fcontext -a -t modemmanager_exec_t '/srv/modemmanager/content(/.*)?'
restorecon -R -v /srv/mymodemmanager_content

Note: SELinux often uses regular expressions to specify labels that match multiple files. regex girlies rise 🦋

The following file types are defined for modemmanager:

modemmanager_exec_t

• Set files with the modemmanager_exec_t type, if you want to transition an executable to the modemmanager_t domain.

Paths:

/usr/bin/ModemManager, /usr/bin/modem-manager

modemmanager_unit_file_t

• Set files with the modemmanager_unit_file_t type, if you want to treat the files as modemmanager unit content.

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. so like, chcon is the quick fix and semanage fcontext + restorecon is the forever commitment 💍

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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. it's giving graphical interface ✨🖥️

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🫶 AUTHOR 🫶

This manual page was auto-generated using sepolicy manpage. robot wrote it, not me, but I made it cute 💖

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💀 SEE ALSO 💀

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

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okay that's literally the whole page bestie, you're so welcome 🥰 this gem was brought to you by the modemmanager fam, version 26-10-06, dated 26-10-06 — catch you on the flip side, mwah 💋✨