postfix_smtp_selinux(8)

🦋 SELinux Policy for postfix_smtp — the bestie guide 🦋

okay so you're looking at postfix_smtp_selinux(8), and it's giving "SELinux but make it make sense" energy. Let's get into it 💅

🌸 NAME 🌸

postfix_smtp_selinux — Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the postfix_smtp processes ✨

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

Security-Enhanced Linux secures the postfix_smtp processes via flexible mandatory access control. No cap, that's the whole vibe 🔥

The postfix_smtp processes execute with the postfix_smtp_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 postfix_smtp_t

🚪 ENTRYPOINTS 🚪

The postfix_smtp_t SELinux type can be entered via the postfix_smtp_exec_t file type.

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

/usr/libexec/postfix/lmtp, /usr/libexec/postfix/smtp,
/usr/libexec/postfix/scache, /usr/libexec/postfix/tlsproxy

👑 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 postfix_smtp policy is very flexible allowing users to setup their postfix_smtp processes in as secure a method as possible. Iconic behavior tbh 💖

The following process types are defined for postfix_smtp:

• postfix_smtp_t
• postfix_smtpd_t

Note: semanage permissive -a postfix_smtp_t can be used to make the process type postfix_smtp_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 watching 👀

🎚️ BOOLEANS 🎚️

SELinux policy is customizable based on least access required. postfix_smtp policy is extremely flexible and has several booleans that allow you to manipulate the policy and run postfix_smtp with the tightest access possible. We love a customizable queen 👑

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 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 postfix_smtp_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. Yes bestie, both things matter 😭

• 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

• postfix_prng_t

/etc/postfix/prng_exch

• postfix_smtp_tmp_t — no default paths listed here, it's just out here living its truth 🦋
• postfix_spool_t

/var/spool/postfix.*
/var/spool/postfix/defer(/.*)?
/var/spool/postfix/flush(/.*)?
/var/spool/postfix/deferred(/.*)?
/var/spool/postfix/maildrop(/.*)?

• postfix_var_run_t

/var/spool/postfix/pid/.*

🏷️ 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 postfix_smtp policy is very flexible allowing users to setup their postfix_smtp processes in as secure a method as possible. Same energy, different file vibes ✨

🎀 STANDARD FILE CONTEXT 🎀

SELinux defines the file context types for the postfix_smtp, 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 postfix_smtp_exec_t '/srv/postfix_smtp/content(/.*)?'
restorecon -R -v /srv/mypostfix_smtp_content

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

The following file types are defined for postfix_smtp:

• postfix_smtp_exec_t — Set files with the postfix_smtp_exec_t type, if you want to transition an executable to the postfix_smtp_t domain.

Paths:

/usr/libexec/postfix/lmtp, /usr/libexec/postfix/smtp,
/usr/libexec/postfix/scache, /usr/libexec/postfix/tlsproxy

• postfix_smtp_tmp_t — Set files with the postfix_smtp_tmp_t type, if you want to store postfix smtp temporary files in the /tmp directories.
• postfix_smtpd_exec_t — Set files with the postfix_smtpd_exec_t type, if you want to transition an executable to the postfix_smtpd_t domain.
• postfix_smtpd_tmp_t — Set files with the postfix_smtpd_tmp_t type, if you want to store postfix smtpd temporary files in the /tmp directories.

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 your fighter 💀

💻 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), postfix_smtp(8), semanage(8), restorecon(8), chcon(1), sepolicy(8), setsebool(8)

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mwah 💋 — signing off as postfix_smtp_selinux(8), source/version postfix_smtp, dated 26-10-06 🫶