saslauthd_selinux(8)

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💖 NAME 💖

<pink>saslauthd_selinux(8)</pink> is the manual page for the Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the saslauthd processes. Bestie, this is the SELinux glow-up page for saslauthd. 💅

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

Security-Enhanced Linux secures the saslauthd processes via flexible mandatory access control.

The saslauthd processes execute with the saslauthd_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 saslauthd_t

🌸 ENTRYPOINTS 🌸

The saslauthd_t SELinux type can be entered via the saslauthd_exec_t file type.

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

/usr/bin/saslauthd

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

The following process types are defined for saslauthd:

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

  • saslauthd_read_shadow — if you want to allow sasl to read shadow, you must turn on the saslauthd_read_shadow boolean. Disabled by default.
setsebool -P saslauthd_read_shadow 1
  • daemons_dontaudit_scheduling — if you want to dontaudit all daemons scheduling requests (setsched, sys_nice), you must turn on the daemons_dontaudit_scheduling boolean. Enabled by default.
setsebool -P daemons_dontaudit_scheduling 1
  • fips_mode — 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
  • kerberos_enabled — if you want to allow confined applications to run with kerberos, you must turn on the kerberos_enabled boolean. Enabled by default.
setsebool -P kerberos_enabled 1
  • nis_enabled — 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 saslauthd_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. No cap, policy doesn’t skip that part. 💀
  • cluster_conf_t — default paths:
/etc/cluster(/.*)?
  • cluster_var_lib_t — default paths:
/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 — default paths:
/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 — default paths:
/var/log/btmp.*
/run/faillock(/.*)?
/var/log/faillog.*
/var/log/tallylog.*
  • krb5_host_rcache_t — default paths:
/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
  • lastlog_t — default paths:
/var/log/lastlog.*
/var/lib/lastlog(/.*)?
  • root_t — default paths:
/sysroot/.aleph-version.json
/sysroot/ostree/deploy/.*-atomic/deploy(/.*)?
/
/initrd
/var/lib/ntp
  • saslauthd_var_run_t — default paths:
/run/saslauthd(/.*)?
/var/lib/sasl2(/.*)?
  • security_t — default paths:
/selinux
  • wtmpdb_journal_t — default paths:
/var/lib/wtmpdb/wtmp.db-journal

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

⭐ STANDARD FILE CONTEXT ⭐

SELinux defines the file context types for the saslauthd. If you wanted to store files with these types in 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 saslauthd_exec_t '/srv/saslauthd/content(/.*)?'
restorecon -R -v /srv/mysaslauthd_content
Note: SELinux often uses regular expressions to specify labels that match multiple files. Regex girlies stay winning. ✨

The following file types are defined for saslauthd:

  • saslauthd_exec_t — set files with the saslauthd_exec_t type, if you want to transition an executable to the saslauthd_t domain.
  • saslauthd_initrc_exec_t — set files with the saslauthd_initrc_exec_t type, if you want to transition an executable to the saslauthd_initrc_t domain.
  • saslauthd_keytab_t — set files with the saslauthd_keytab_t type, if you want to treat the files as kerberos keytab files.
  • saslauthd_var_run_t — set files with the saslauthd_var_run_t type, if you want to store the saslauthd files under the /run or /var/run directory.

Paths:

/run/saslauthd(/.*)?, /var/lib/sasl2(/.*)?
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), saslauthd(8), semanage(8), restorecon(8), chcon(1), sepolicy(8), setsebool(8)

That’s the whole page, bestie — source/version saslauthd, dated 26-10-06, and filed under saslauthd_selinux(8). Mwah 💖✨

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