tvtime_selinux(8)

💖 tvtime_selinux (8) — the SELinux policy page for tvtime, bestie edition 💖

okay so real talk, this whole page is about the SELinux policy that wraps around the tvtime processes, and honestly? it's giving "niche but iconic." it lives in section 8 of the manual, and yeah, the manual name is tvtime_selinux — we move.

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✨ NAME ✨

tvtime_selinux — Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the tvtime processes 🎀

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

Security-Enhanced Linux secures the tvtime processes via flexible mandatory access control. that's the whole vibe, no cap.

the tvtime processes execute with the tvtime_t SELinux type. you can check if you have these processes running by executing the ps command with the -Z qualifier. bestie, -Z is literally the ✨context✨ flag.

for example:

ps -eZ | grep tvtime_t

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🦋 ENTRYPOINTS 🦋

the tvtime_t SELinux type can be entered via the tvtime_exec_t file type. that's the doorway, iykyk.

the default entrypoint paths for the tvtime_t domain are the following:

/usr/bin/tvtime

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👑 PROCESS TYPES 👑 (domains, basically)

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. the SELinux tvtime policy is very flexible, allowing users to setup their tvtime processes in as secure a method as possible. flexible and secure, we love a multitasker.

the following process types are defined for tvtime:

tvtime_t

Note: semanage permissive -a tvtime_t can be used to make the process type tvtime_t permissive. SELinux does not deny access to permissive process types, but the AVC (SELinux denials) messages are still generated. so like… it stops yelling at you but it's still watching you, lowkey 🫶

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🎀 BOOLEANS 🎀

SELinux policy is customizable based on least access required. the tvtime policy is extremely flexible and has several booleans that allow you to manipulate the policy and run tvtime with the tightest access possible. least privilege but make it fashion 💅

• 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 regular users direct dri device access, you must turn on the selinuxuser_direct_dri_enabled boolean. Disabled by default.

setsebool -P selinuxuser_direct_dri_enabled 1

• if you want to allows clients to write to the X server shared memory segments, you must turn on the xserver_clients_write_xshm boolean. Disabled by default.

setsebool -P xserver_clients_write_xshm 1

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🧚 MANAGED FILES 🧚

the SELinux process type tvtime_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 the classics, fr fr.

• cifs_t
• ecryptfs_t

/home/[^/]+/.Private(/.*)?
/home/[^/]+/.ecryptfs(/.*)?

• fusefs_t

/run/user/[0-9]+/gvfs

• 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

• nfs_t
• tvtime_tmp_t
• tvtime_tmpfs_t

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💜 FILE CONTEXTS 💜

SELinux requires files to have an extended attribute to define the file type. yes, files have a whole identity tag, main character energy.

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

⭐ STANDARD FILE CONTEXT ⭐

SELinux defines the file context types for the tvtime, 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 tvtime_exec_t '/srv/tvtime/content(/.*)?'
restorecon -R -v /srv/mytvtime_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 tvtime:

• tvtime_exec_t — set files with the tvtime_exec_t type, if you want to transition an executable to the tvtime_t domain.
• tvtime_home_t — set files with the tvtime_home_t type, if you want to store tvtime files in the users home directory.
• tvtime_tmp_t — set files with the tvtime_tmp_t type, if you want to store tvtime temporary files in the /tmp directories.
• tvtime_tmpfs_t — set files with the tvtime_tmpfs_t type, if you want to store tvtime files on a tmpfs file system.

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. temporary vs permanent, 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. a whole GUI, for the clickers among us 🖱️💖

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🍓 AUTHOR 🍓

This manual page was auto-generated using sepolicy manpage. a bot wrote it and honestly? it ate.

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

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

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and that's the whole page, bestie 🫶 this was tvtime, dated 26-10-06, living its best life as tvtime_selinux(8). go forth and label responsibly 💅✨