pesign_selinux(8)
π NAME π
pesign_selinux β Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the pesign processes. Hi bestie, this is the pesign_selinux(8) page, aka the SELinux Policy pesign manual, and we're gonna get you comfy with it π«Ά.
π DESCRIPTION π
Security-Enhanced Linux secures the pesign processes via flexible mandatory access control.
The pesign processes execute with the pesign_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 pesign_t
πͺ ENTRYPOINTS πͺ
The pesign_t SELinux type can be entered via the pesign_exec_t file type.
The default entrypoint paths for the pesign_t domain are the following:
/usr/bin/pesign
𧬠PROCESS TYPES π§¬
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 pesign policy is very flexible, allowing users to setup their pesign processes in as secure a method as possible.
The following process types are defined for pesign:
pesign_t
Note:semanage permissive -a pesign_tcan be used to make the process typepesign_tpermissive. SELinux does not deny access to permissive process types, but the AVC (SELinux denials) messages are still generated. π
ποΈ BOOLEANS ποΈ
SELinux policy is customizable based on least access required. pesign policy is extremely flexible and has several booleans that allow you to manipulate the policy and run pesign with the tightest access possible.
- If you want to dontaudit all daemons scheduling requests (
setsched,sys_nice), you must turn on thedaemons_dontaudit_schedulingboolean. 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 thefips_modeboolean. Enabled by default.
setsebool -P fips_mode 1
- If you want to allow system to run with NIS, you must turn on the
nis_enabledboolean. Disabled by default.
setsebool -P nis_enabled 1
π MANAGED FILES π
The SELinux process type pesign_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
named_cache_t/var/lib/softhsm(/.*)?/var/lib/unbound(/.*)?/var/lib/named/data(/.*)?/var/lib/named/slaves(/.*)?/var/lib/named/dynamic(/.*)?/var/lib/named/chroot/var/tmp(/.*)?/var/lib/named/chroot/var/named/data(/.*)?/var/lib/named/chroot/var/named/slaves(/.*)?/var/lib/named/chroot/var/named/dynamic(/.*)?
pesign_tmp_tβ the page doesn't list default paths underneath this one, just the type name.pesign_var_run_t/run/pesign(/.*)?/run/pesign.pid
root_t/sysroot/.aleph-version.json/sysroot/ostree/deploy/.*-atomic/deploy(/.*)?//initrd/var/lib/ntp
π·οΈ FILE CONTEXTS π·οΈ
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 pesign policy is very flexible, allowing users to setup their pesign processes in as secure a method as possible.
π STANDARD FILE CONTEXT π
SELinux defines the file context types for the pesign, 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 pesign_exec_t '/srv/pesign/content(/.*)?'
restorecon -R -v /srv/mypesign_content
Note: SELinux often uses regular expressions to specify labels that match multiple files.
The following file types are defined for pesign:
pesign_exec_tβ Set files with thepesign_exec_ttype, if you want to transition an executable to thepesign_tdomain.pesign_tmp_tβ Set files with thepesign_tmp_ttype, if you want to storepesigntemporary files in the/tmpdirectories.pesign_unit_file_tβ Set files with thepesign_unit_file_ttype, if you want to treat the files aspesignunit content.pesign_var_run_tβ Set files with thepesign_var_run_ttype, if you want to store thepesignfiles under the/runor/var/rundirectory.
Paths:
/run/pesign(/.*)?/run/pesign.pid
Note: File context can be temporarily modified with thechconcommand. If you want to permanently change the file context you need to use thesemanage fcontextcommand. This will modify the SELinux labeling database. You will need to userestoreconto apply the labels.
π οΈ COMMANDS π οΈ
semanage fcontextcan also be used to manipulate default file context mappings.semanage permissivecan also be used to manipulate whether or not a process type is permissive.semanage modulecan also be used to enable/disable/install/remove policy modules.semanage booleancan also be used to manipulate the booleanssystem-config-selinuxis a GUI tool available to customize SELinux policy settings.
βοΈ AUTHOR βοΈ
This manual page was auto-generated using sepolicy manpage .
π SEE ALSO π
selinux(8), pesign(8), semanage(8), restorecon(8), chcon(1), sepolicy(8), setsebool(8)
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