newrole_selinux(8)

✨ newrole_selinux — the SELinux glow-up for newrole 💅

okay so bestie, this is the manual page for newrole_selinux, the SELinux policy situation for newrole processes. yes it's a whole policy page. no it's not boring, sit with me 🫶

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🌸 NAME 🌸

newrole_selinux — the Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the newrole processes, fr fr.

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Security-Enhanced Linux secures the newrole processes via flexible mandatory access control. like, it's literally the bodyguard of process policies 💅

The newrole processes execute with the newrole_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 newrole_t

vibe check your processes, bestie ✨

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🎀 ENTRYPOINTS 🎀

The newrole_t SELinux type can be entered via the newrole_exec_t file type.

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

/usr/bin/newrole

that's the one door in, iykyk 🚪💫

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

The following process types are defined for newrole:

newrole_t

Note: semanage permissive -a newrole_t can be used to make the process type newrole_t permissive. SELinux does not deny access to permissive process types, but the AVC (SELinux denials) messages are still generated.

so it's giving "I'm not gonna stop you but I'm definitely writing it down" energy 😭💀

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🍓 BOOLEANS 🍓

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

If you want to allow confined applications to run with kerberos, you must turn on the kerberos_enabled boolean. Enabled by default.

setsebool -P kerberos_enabled 1

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

If you want to enable polyinstantiated directory support, you must turn on the polyinstantiation_enabled boolean. Disabled by default.

setsebool -P polyinstantiation_enabled 1

If you want to disallow programs, such as newrole, from transitioning to administrative user domains, you must turn on the secure_mode boolean. Disabled by default.

setsebool -P secure_mode 1

flip those booleans like they're your personality traits, bestie 🔥

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🧚 MANAGED FILES 🧚

The SELinux process type newrole_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.

faillog_t

/var/log/btmp.*
/run/faillock(/.*)?
/var/log/faillog.*
/var/log/tallylog.*

initrc_var_run_t

/run/sysconfig(/.*)?
/run/utmp
/run/keymap
/run/numlock-on
/run/setleds-on
/run/runlevel.dir
/run/setmixer_flag
/run/bootsplashctl

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

lastlog_t

/var/log/lastlog.*
/var/lib/lastlog(/.*)?

security_t

/selinux

wtmpdb_journal_t

/var/lib/wtmpdb/wtmp.db-journal

look at all those paths — it's giving organized queen energy 👑✨

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

⭐ STANDARD FILE CONTEXT ⭐

SELinux defines the file context types for the newrole, 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 newrole_exec_t '/srv/newrole/content(/.*)?'
restorecon -R -v /srv/mynewrole_content

Note: SELinux often uses regular expressions to specify labels that match multiple files.

The following file types are defined for newrole:

• newrole_exec_t — Set files with the newrole_exec_t type, if you want to transition an executable to the newrole_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.

temporary vs permanent labeling — know the difference, bestie, it's crucial 🙈💜

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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.

the little toolbox of SELinux slay 🧰✨

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🫶 AUTHOR 🫶

This manual page was auto-generated using sepolicy manpage.

(so no, a human didn't hand-write this one — the robot did it, and honestly? it ate 💅)

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

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

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and that's the whole page, bestie 💖 newrole · 26-10-06 · newrole_selinux(8) — go forth and label responsibly, mwah 🎀🦋