1wireshark_selinux(8) SELinux Policy wireshark wireshark_selinux(8)
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6 wireshark_selinux - Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the wireshark
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10 Security-Enhanced Linux secures the wireshark processes via flexible
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13 The wireshark processes execute with the wireshark_t SELinux type. You
14 can check if you have these processes running by executing the ps com‐
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19 ps -eZ | grep wireshark_t
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24 The wireshark_t SELinux type can be entered via the wireshark_exec_t
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27 The default entrypoint paths for the wireshark_t domain are the follow‐
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33 SELinux defines process types (domains) for each process running on the
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36 You can see the context of a process using the -Z option to ps
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38 Policy governs the access confined processes have to files. SELinux
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42 The following process types are defined for wireshark:
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46 Note: semanage permissive -a wireshark_t can be used to make the
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53 SELinux policy is customizable based on least access required. wire‐
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60 If you want to allow users to resolve user passwd entries directly from
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193 The SELinux process type wireshark_t can manage files labeled with the
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202 /home/[^/]+/.Private(/.*)?
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240 SELinux requires files to have an extended attribute to define the file
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251 SELinux defines the file context types for the wireshark, if you wanted
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256 semanage fcontext -a -t wireshark_tmpfs_t '/srv/mywireshark_con‐
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