telepathy...e_selinux(8)

💖 telepathy_idle_selinux(8) — the manual page bestie 💖

okay so you're looking at telepathy_idle_selinux(8), which is literally the SELinux policy page for the telepathy_idle processes. pull up a chair, grab a strawberry 🍓, we're doing this together.

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✨ NAME ✨

telepathy_idle_selinux — the Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the telepathy_idle processes, no cap 💅

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

Security-Enhanced Linux secures the telepathy_idle processes via flexible mandatory access control. yes bestie, flexible AND mandatory — it's giving main character energy 👑

The telepathy_idle processes execute with the telepathy_idle_t SELinux type. wanna check if you've got these processes running? just run the ps command with the -Z qualifier. easy.

For example:

ps -eZ | grep telepathy_idle_t

that's it, that's the vibe check 🔍

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🦋 ENTRYPOINTS 🦋

so the telepathy_idle_t SELinux type can be entered via the telepathy_idle_exec_t file type. that's the doorway, bestie 🚪✨

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

/usr/libexec/telepathy-idle

one path, one icon, periodt.

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👑 PROCESS TYPES 👑

SELinux defines process types (domains) for each process running on the system. iconic behaviour honestly.

You can see the context of a process using the -Z option to ps.

Policy governs the access confined processes have to files. The SELinux telepathy_idle policy is very flexible, allowing users to setup their telepathy_idle processes in as secure a method as possible. tightest-access-possible era 💜

The following process types are defined for telepathy_idle:

• telepathy_idle_t

Note: semanage permissive -a telepathy_idle_t can be used to make the process type telepathy_idle_t permissive. SELinux does not deny access to permissive process types, but the AVC (SELinux denials) messages are still generated. so like, it stops blocking you but it's still gonna talk about you behind your back 😭

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🎀 BOOLEANS 🎀

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

If you want to allow the Telepathy connection managers to connect to any network port, you must turn on the telepathy_connect_all_ports boolean. Disabled by default.

setsebool -P telepathy_connect_all_ports 1

If you want to allow the Telepathy connection managers to connect to any generic TCP port, you must turn on the telepathy_tcp_connect_generic_network_ports boolean. Disabled by default.

setsebool -P telepathy_tcp_connect_generic_network_ports 1

four booleans, four little switches, go off 💅

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🧚 MANAGED FILES 🧚

The SELinux process type telepathy_idle_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. (SELinux isn't out here overriding DAC, bestie — they're a team 🤝)

• cache_home_t

/root/.cache(/.*)?
/home/[^/]+/.nv(/.*)?
/home/[^/]+/.cache(/.*)?

• 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

look at all those paths, they ate 🍽️

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💀 FILE CONTEXTS 💀

SELinux requires files to have an extended attribute to define the file type. yes, files have vibes too, and their vibe is stored as an extended attribute 😌

You can see the context of a file using the -Z option to ls.

Policy governs the access confined processes have to these files. The SELinux telepathy_idle policy is very flexible, allowing users to setup their telepathy_idle processes in as secure a method as possible.

⭐ STANDARD FILE CONTEXT ⭐

SELinux defines the file context types for the telepathy_idle. 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. like so:

semanage fcontext -a -t telepathy_idle_exec_t '/srv/telepathy_idle/content(/.*)?'
restorecon -R -v /srv/mytelepathy_idle_content

Note: SELinux often uses regular expressions to specify labels that match multiple files. regex my beloved 🫶

The following file types are defined for telepathy_idle:

• telepathy_idle_exec_t — Set files with the telepathy_idle_exec_t type, if you want to transition an executable to the telepathy_idle_t domain.
• telepathy_idle_tmp_t — Set files with the telepathy_idle_tmp_t type, if you want to store telepathy idle 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. so chcon is the fling, semanage fcontext + restorecon is the committed relationship 💍

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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. a whole GUI, for the visual learners ✨

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🙈 AUTHOR 🙈

This manual page was auto-generated using sepolicy manpage. a bot wrote this and honestly? it understood the assignment 🤖💖

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

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

go read those next, bestie, iykyk 📚

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and that's the whole page!! source/version goes a lil something like telepathy_idle, dated 26-10-06, and the manual name is telepathy...e_selinux(8) — mwah, hope this helped, go be secure out there 💜🦋✨