RPM-PLUGIN-FAPOLICYD(8)

✨ NAME ✨

rpm-plugin-fapolicyd — the fapolicyd plugin for the RPM Package Manager, and honestly? she's doing the most for your security stack 💅

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so bestie, picture this: RPM is out here installing and removing stuff, right? and fapolicyd — the file access policy daemon — needs to know about it. that's literally this plugin's whole job. no cap.

so what she does is: she gathers the metadata of the currently installed files. then she takes all that info — the stuff about the files and the info about the ongoing rpm transaction — and she hands it straight over to the fapolicyd daemon. 🫶

and how does that info travel, you ask? through a Linux pipe, which lives right here:

/var/run/fapolicyd/fapolicyd.fifo

that's the spot. the daemon reads from the fifo, the plugin writes to the fifo, everyone stays in the loop. iconic behavior, fr fr. 🔥

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🎀 CONFIGURATION 🎀

so here's the tea: there are currently no options for this plugin in particular. like, zero. she's a low-maintenance queen. 👑

if you wanna know how to control plugins in general — turn 'em on, turn 'em off, whatever — go read rpm-plugins(8). that's where the general plugin vibes live.

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• fapolicyd(8)
• rpm-plugins(8)

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mwah 💜 that's the whole page. go forth and let your daemon know what's up.

this one's from RPM 6.0.2, dated 2026-07-16, living in the System Manager's Manual (section 8, where all the sysadmin main characters hang out). bye bestie, stay slay ✨🌸