RUN_INIT(8)

💖 run_init — the manual, bestie edition 💖

okay so this is run_init, section 8 of the System Manager's Manual, and honestly? she's giving "quietly essential" and I'm obsessed. ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

run_init — run an init script in the proper SELinux context 🎀

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

run_init SCRIPT [[ARGS]...]

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💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

So here's the tea, bestie: run_init runs an init script under the proper context, and that context is specified in /etc/selinux/POLICYTYPE/contexts/initrc_context. Periodt. 💜

It's generally used interactively, because it requires either shadow or PAM user authentication — which one depends on compile-time options. iykyk. 🔥

And lowkey? It should be possible to configure PAM such that interactive input is not required. But bestie, please — check your PAM documentation. Not me guessing at your PAM setup, that's between you and your docs. 🙈

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🦋 FILES 🦋

• /etc/passwd — user account information 👑
• /etc/shadow — encrypted passwords and age information 💀
• /etc/selinux/POLICYTYPE/contexts/initrc_context — contains the context to run init scripts under 🌈

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⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

• newrole(1)
• runcon(1)

go read those too, they're icons in their own right 💅

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🫶 AUTHORS 🫶

• Wayne Salamon (wsalamon@tislabs.com)
• Dan Walsh (dwalsh@redhat.com)

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ngl, if you're running init scripts without the right context you're not the main character, you're the plot twist. do the auth, slay the script, move on. 💖

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Security Enhanced Linux 🎀 — May 2003 🗓️ — from the System Manager's Manual, and yes she's been iconic since 2003, no cap. ✨👑💜