wpa_cli_selinux(8)

✨ wpa_cli_selinux(8) — the SELinux tea for your wpa_cli processes ✨

okay bestie, so this is the wpa_cli_selinux manual page — it's the Security Enhanced Linux Policy situation for the wpa_cli processes. yes that's the whole vibe. let's get into it 💅

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🌸 NAME 🌸

wpa_cli_selinux — Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the wpa_cli processes 🫶

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Security-Enhanced Linux secures the wpa_cli processes via flexible mandatory access control. iconic. no cap.

The wpa_cli processes execute with the wpa_cli_t SELinux type. you can check if you've got these processes running by executing the ps command with the -Z qualifier. like so:

ps -eZ | grep wpa_cli_t

literally that's it, that's the check 🔥

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🎀 ENTRYPOINTS 🎀

The wpa_cli_t SELinux type can be entered via the wpa_cli_exec_t file type. ok so that's the door 🚪✨

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

/usr/bin/wpa_cli

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

The following process types are defined for wpa_cli:

• wpa_cli_t

Note: semanage permissive -a wpa_cli_t can be used to make the process type wpa_cli_t permissive. SELinux does not deny access to permissive process types, but the AVC (SELinux denials) messages are still generated. so like, it's chill but it's still snitching 💀

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🌈 BOOLEANS 🌈

SELinux policy is customizable based on least access required. wpa_cli policy is extremely flexible and has several booleans that allow you to manipulate the policy and run wpa_cli with the tightest access possible. main character energy for least privilege ✨

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

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💖 FILE CONTEXTS 💖

SELinux requires files to have an extended attribute to define the file type. yes, files have lore too 🙈

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

⭐ STANDARD FILE CONTEXT ⭐

SELinux defines the file context types for the wpa_cli. 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 this:

semanage fcontext -a -t wpa_cli_exec_t '/srv/wpa_cli/content(/.*)?'
restorecon -R -v /srv/mywpa_cli_content

Note: SELinux often uses regular expressions to specify labels that match multiple files. regex girlies rise 🌸

The following file types are defined for wpa_cli:

🍓 wpa_cli_exec_t

• wpa_cli_exec_t — Set files with the wpa_cli_exec_t type, if you want to transition an executable to the wpa_cli_t domain.

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. ngl chcon is giving "temporary fix, don't get attached" 😭

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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.

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🧚 AUTHOR 🧚

This manual page was auto-generated using sepolicy manpage. (yes, the robots wrote it, but she still ate 💅)

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

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

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and that's the whole page bestie — go forth and label responsibly ✨

signing off with love: this was wpa_cli_selinux(8), page version wpa_cli, dated 26-10-06, and yeah it says wpa_cli_selinux(8) again at the bottom because that's just how manpages do 🎀