pcscd_selinux(8)

✨ pcscd_selinux ✨

Okay bestie, so this is the manual page for pcscd_selinux — it's giving "SELinux policy for the pcscd processes" energy, and we're gonna walk through the whole thing together. No cap, it's actually pretty iconic once you get the vibe. 💅

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🌸 NAME 🌸

pcscd_selinux — Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the pcscd processes

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Security-Enhanced Linux secures the pcscd processes via flexible mandatory access control. Periodt. That's the whole point.

The pcscd processes execute with the pcscd_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 pcscd_t

Literally just run that and you'll see what's up. ✨

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🎀 ENTRYPOINTS 🎀

The pcscd_t SELinux type can be entered via the pcscd_exec_t file type.

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

/usr/bin/pcscd

That's the one and only, bestie. 👑

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

The following process types are defined for pcscd:

pcscd_t

Note: semanage permissive -a pcscd_t can be used to make the process type pcscd_t permissive. SELinux does not deny access to permissive process types, but the AVC (SELinux denials) messages are still generated. So like, it's not a free pass — the receipts still show up. 😭

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🔥 BOOLEANS 🔥

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

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

If you want to allow confined applications to use nscd shared memory, you must turn on the nscd_use_shm boolean. Enabled by default.

setsebool -P nscd_use_shm 1

All three are enabled by default, so you're already slaying if you haven't touched anything. 🫶

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🌈 MANAGED FILES 🌈

The SELinux process type pcscd_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. (Yeah, SELinux isn't the only gatekeeper — DAC is still there doing its thing.)

🗂️ 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

🗂️ pcscd_var_run_t

/run/pcscd(/.*)?
/run/pcscd.events(/.*)?
/run/pcscd.pid
/run/pcscd.pub
/run/pcscd.comm

🗂️ root_t

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

🗂️ usbfs_t

(No listed paths for this one — it's giving mysterious main character 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 pcscd policy is very flexible allowing users to setup their pcscd processes in as secure a method as possible.

🎀 STANDARD FILE CONTEXT 🎀

SELinux defines the file context types for the pcscd, 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. It's giving "customization queen" energy.

semanage fcontext -a -t pcscd_exec_t '/srv/pcscd/content(/.*)?'
restorecon -R -v /srv/mypcscd_content

Note: SELinux often uses regular expressions to specify labels that match multiple files. Regex is literally that girl. 💅

The following file types are defined for pcscd:

💜 pcscd_exec_t

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

💜 pcscd_initrc_exec_t

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

💜 pcscd_var_run_t

• Set files with the pcscd_var_run_t type, if you want to store the pcscd files under the /run or /var/run directory.

Paths:

/run/pcscd(/.*)?, /run/pcscd.events(/.*)?, /run/pcscd.pid,
/run/pcscd.pub, /run/pcscd.comm

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 a quick vibe check, but semanage fcontext + restorecon is the real commitment. Iykyk. 🔥

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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. For the besties who prefer clicking over typing. 🖱️✨

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

This manual page was auto-generated using sepolicy manpage. Not me being auto-generated and still serving looks. 💅

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

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

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Alright bestie, that's the whole page — no cap, every detail intact, every option accounted for. This was pcscd_selinux(8) from 26-10-06, and honestly? It ate. Periodt. 💖✨🎀