samba_net_selinux(8)

💅 samba_net_selinux(8) — the SELinux policy page for samba_net, bestie edition

okay so this is samba_net_selinux(8), the manual for the SELinux Policy around samba_net. yes it's a whole page about keeping samba_net on a leash and honestly? iconic of SELinux tbh 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

samba_net_selinux — Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the samba_net processes 🎀

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

Security-Enhanced Linux secures the samba_net processes via flexible mandatory access control. that's the whole vibe — flexible, but mandatory. like your bestie saying "you can wear that, but…" 💅

The samba_net processes execute with the samba_net_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 samba_net_t

no cap, that's literally how you peek at them 👀

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🦋 ENTRYPOINTS 🦋

The samba_net_t SELinux type can be entered via the samba_net_exec_t file type.

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

/usr/bin/net

that's the one (1) door in, periodt 🚪

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

The following process types are defined for samba_net:

samba_net_t

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

so like, permissive mode is the "I'm not mad, I'm just disappointed" setting — no denials, but it still writes down everything you did in the AVC messages 😭📝

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🎀 BOOLEANS 🎀

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

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

If you want to support NFS home directories, you must turn on the use_nfs_home_dirs boolean. Enabled by default.

setsebool -P use_nfs_home_dirs 1

If you want to support SAMBA home directories, you must turn on the use_samba_home_dirs boolean. Disabled by default.

setsebool -P use_samba_home_dirs 1

the -P is doing the heavy lifting there btw — it makes the change persistent so it survives a reboot. main character flag fr fr 💖

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🧚 MANAGED FILES 🧚

The SELinux process type samba_net_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.

auth_cache_t

/var/cache/coolkey(/.*)?

ctdbd_var_lib_t

/var/lib/ctdb(/.*)?
/var/lib/ctdbd(/.*)?

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

krb5_keytab_t

/var/kerberos/krb5(/.*)?
/etc/krb5.keytab
/etc/krb5kdc/kadm5.keytab
/var/kerberos/krb5kdc/kadm5.keytab

realmd_var_cache_t

/var/cache/realmd(/.*)?

samba_net_tmp_t

samba_secrets_t

/etc/samba/smbpasswd
/etc/samba/passdb.tdb
/etc/samba/MACHINE.SID
/etc/samba/secrets.tdb

(yeah samba_net_tmp_t has no paths listed under it in this page — that's not me skipping it, that's just how it is 🙈)

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

⭐ STANDARD FILE CONTEXT ⭐

SELinux defines the file context types for the samba_net, 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 samba_net_exec_t '/srv/samba_net/content(/.*)?'
restorecon -R -v /srv/mysamba_net_content

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

The following file types are defined for samba_net:

samba_net_exec_t

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

samba_net_tmp_t

• Set files with the samba_net_tmp_t type, if you want to store samba net 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.

chcon is giving "temporary tattoo" energy and semanage fcontext + restorecon is giving "legally changed my name" energy. know the difference bestie 💅✨

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💜 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.

for the girlies who prefer clicking to typing, system-config-selinux has you covered 🖱️💖

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✍️ AUTHOR ✍️

This manual page was auto-generated using sepolicy manpage .

(yes a robot wrote it. and it ate. 🔥)

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🍓 SEE ALSO 🍓

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

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! 💖 this version came from samba_net, dated 26-10-06, and it's the samba_net_selinux(8) manual in the SELinux Policy samba_net section — go forth and label responsibly 🦋✨🎀