pdns_control_selinux(8)

💅 pdns_control_selinux(8) — the SELinux glow-up for pdns_control

Okay bestie, so this is a page from the SELinux Policy pdns_control manual section (pdns_control_selinux(8)), and it's literally all about how SELinux keeps the pdns_control processes safe and sound. Buckle up 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

pdns_control_selinux — the Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the pdns_control processes 🛡️

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

Security-Enhanced Linux secures the pdns_control processes via flexible mandatory access control. Yes, it's giving very much "I'm watching you" energy and we love that for us 👑

The pdns_control processes execute with the pdns_control_t SELinux type. You can check if you have these processes running by executing the ps command with the -Z qualifier. Easy peasy 🍓

For example:

ps -eZ | grep pdns_control_t

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🦋 ENTRYPOINTS 🦋

The pdns_control_t SELinux type can be entered via the pdns_control_exec_t file type. That's the doorway, bestie 🚪✨

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

/usr/bin/pdns_control

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👑 PROCESS TYPES 👑

SELinux defines process types (domains) for each process running on the system. Main character energy for every single process, fr fr 💅

You can see the context of a process using the -Z option to ps.

Policy governs the access confined processes have to files. SELinux pdns_control policy is very flexible, allowing users to set up their pdns_control processes in as secure a method as possible. Flexible and secure? We stan 🌈

The following process types are defined for pdns_control:

• pdns_control_t

Note: semanage permissive -a pdns_control_t can be used to make the process type pdns_control_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's still snitching to the logs 👀

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🎀 BOOLEANS 🎀

SELinux policy is customizable based on least access required. pdns_control policy is extremely flexible and has several booleans that allow you to manipulate the policy and run pdns_control with the tightest access possible. Tightest access possible = the it-girl of security settings 💖

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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⭐ FILE CONTEXTS ⭐

SELinux requires files to have an extended attribute to define the file type. No attribute, no vibe check, sorry 🫶

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 pdns_control policy is very flexible, allowing users to set up their pdns_control processes in as secure a method as possible.

🌼 STANDARD FILE CONTEXT 🌼

SELinux defines the file context types for pdns_control. 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. Relabeling arc, honestly 💅

semanage fcontext -a -t pdns_control_exec_t '/srv/pdns_control/content(/.*)?'
restorecon -R -v /srv/mypdns_control_content

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

The following file types are defined for pdns_control:

pdns_control_exec_t

• Set files with the pdns_control_exec_t type if you want to transition an executable to the pdns_control_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 — choose wisely bestie 😭

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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. A whole GUI, for when the terminal isn't giving what you need 🖥️✨

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💜 AUTHOR 💜

This manual page was auto-generated using sepolicy manpage. Auto-generated and still ate, honestly 🤖💅

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🌟 SEE ALSO 🌟

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

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That's the whole page, bestie! 🎀 Source/version vibes: pdns_control, dated 26-10-06, and yes it's pdns_control_selinux(8) all the way down. Go forth and label responsibly 💖✨