plymouthd_selinux(8)

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💖 NAME

plymouthd_selinux — Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the plymouthd processes.

🦋 DESCRIPTION

Security-Enhanced Linux secures the plymouthd processes via flexible mandatory access control.

The plymouthd processes execute with the plymouthd_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 plymouthd_t

✨ ENTRYPOINTS

The plymouthd_t SELinux type can be entered via the plymouthd_exec_t file type.

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

  • /usr/bin/plymouthd

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

The following process types are defined for plymouthd:

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

🎀 BOOLEANS

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

daemons_dontaudit_scheduling

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

fips_mode

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

nis_enabled

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

🌈 MANAGED FILES

The SELinux process type plymouthd_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

plymouthd_spool_t

  • /var/spool/plymouth(/.*)?

plymouthd_var_lib_t

  • /var/lib/plymouth(/.*)?

plymouthd_var_log_t

  • /var/log/boot.log.*
  • /var/log/plymouth.*.log.*
  • /var/spool/plymouth/boot.log.*

plymouthd_var_run_t

  • /run/plymouth(/.*)?

root_t

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

xdm_spool_t

  • /var/spool/[mg]dm(/.*)?

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

💅 EQUIVALENCE DIRECTORIES

plymouthd policy stores data with multiple different file context types under the /var/spool/plymouth directory. If you would like to store the data in a different directory you can use the semanage command to create an equivalence mapping. If you wanted to store this data under the /srv directory you would execute the following command:

semanage fcontext -a -e /var/spool/plymouth /srv/plymouth
restorecon -R -v /srv/plymouth

🧚 STANDARD FILE CONTEXT

SELinux defines the file context types for plymouthd. 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.

semanage fcontext -a -t plymouthd_exec_t '/srv/plymouthd/content(/.*)?'
restorecon -R -v /srv/myplymouthd_content
Note: SELinux often uses regular expressions to specify labels that match multiple files.

The following file types are defined for plymouthd:

plymouthd_exec_t

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

plymouthd_spool_t

  • Set files with the plymouthd_spool_t type, if you want to store the plymouthd files under the /var/spool directory.

plymouthd_var_lib_t

  • Set files with the plymouthd_var_lib_t type, if you want to store the plymouthd files under the /var/lib directory.

plymouthd_var_log_t

  • Set files with the plymouthd_var_log_t type, if you want to treat the data as plymouthd var log data, usually stored under the /var/log directory.

Paths:

  • /var/log/boot.log.*
  • /var/log/plymouth.*.log.*
  • /var/spool/plymouth/boot.log.*

plymouthd_var_run_t

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

🔥 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.

🫶 AUTHOR

This manual page was auto-generated using sepolicy manpage.

⭐ SEE ALSO

k bye bestie, that’s the whole page — source/version and date vibes: plymouthd, 26-10-06, and plymouthd_selinux(8) 🫶💖✨

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