policykit...h_selinux(8)

🌸 NAME 🌸

okay bestie, welcome to policykit_auth_selinux — the Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the policykit_auth processes. This is the manual page named policykit...h_selinux(8), and it is all about that policykit_auth policy life. 💅

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

Security-Enhanced Linux secures the policykit_auth processes via flexible mandatory access control. No cap, that is the whole deal. ✨

The policykit_auth processes execute with the policykit_auth_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 policykit_auth_t

🚪 ENTRYPOINTS 🚪

The policykit_auth_t SELinux type can be entered via the policykit_auth_exec_t file type. 🚪

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

/usr/bin/pkla-check-authorization, /usr/libexec/polkit-read-auth-helper, /usr/lib/polkit-1/polkit-agent-helper-1, /usr/lib/policykit/polkit-read-auth-helper, /usr/libexec/polkit-1/polkit-agent-helper-1, /usr/libexec/kde4/polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1

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

The following process types are defined for policykit_auth:

• policykit_auth_t

Note: semanage permissive -a policykit_auth_t can be used to make the process type policykit_auth_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. policykit_auth policy is extremely flexible and has several booleans that allow you to manipulate the policy and run policykit_auth with the tightest access possible. 🎚️

• daemons_dontaudit_scheduling — if you want to dontaudit all daemons scheduling requests (setsched, sys_nice), you must turn on this boolean. Enabled by default. Command: setsebool -P daemons_dontaudit_scheduling 1
• fips_mode — if you want to allow all domains to execute in fips_mode, you must turn on this boolean. Enabled by default. Command: setsebool -P fips_mode 1
• kerberos_enabled — if you want to allow confined applications to run with kerberos, you must turn on this boolean. Enabled by default. Command: setsebool -P kerberos_enabled 1
• nis_enabled — if you want to allow system to run with NIS, you must turn on this boolean. Disabled by default. Command: setsebool -P nis_enabled 1

🗂️ MANAGED FILES 🗂️

The SELinux process type policykit_auth_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

• faillog_t

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

• 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

• policykit_reload_t

/var/lib/misc/PolicyKit.reload

• policykit_tmp_t — no paths are listed here.
• policykit_var_lib_t

/var/lib/polkit-1(/.*)?
/var/lib/PolicyKit(/.*)?
/var/lib/PolicyKit-public(/.*)?

• policykit_var_run_t

/run/polkit(/.*)?
/run/polkit-1(/.*)?
/run/PolicyKit(/.*)?

• root_t

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

• security_t

/selinux

• var_auth_t

/var/ace(/.*)?
/var/rsa(/.*)?
/var/lib/abl(/.*)?
/var/lib/rsa(/.*)?
/var/lib/pam_ssh(/.*)?
/var/lib/pam_shield(/.*)?
/var/opt/quest/vas/vasd(/.*)?
/var/lib/google-authenticator(/.*)?

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

🎀 STANDARD FILE CONTEXT 🎀

SELinux defines the file context types for the policykit_auth, 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 policykit_auth_exec_t '/srv/policykit_auth/content(/.*)?'
restorecon -R -v /srv/mypolicykit_auth_content

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

The following file types are defined for policykit_auth:

• policykit_auth_exec_t — set files with the policykit_auth_exec_t type, if you want to transition an executable to the policykit_auth_t domain.

Paths:

/usr/bin/pkla-check-authorization, /usr/libexec/polkit-read-auth-helper, /usr/lib/polkit-1/polkit-agent-helper-1, /usr/lib/policykit/polkit-read-auth-helper, /usr/libexec/polkit-1/polkit-agent-helper-1, /usr/libexec/kde4/polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1

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 👀

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

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that's the whole page, bestie 💖 this cutie came from the policykit_auth manual, dated 26-10-06, under the policykit...h_selinux(8) banner. slay and stay secure. 🫶