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6 prelink_selinux - Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the prelink pro‐
7 cesses
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10 Security-Enhanced Linux secures the prelink processes via flexible
11 mandatory access control.
12 The prelink processes execute with the prelink_t SELinux type. You can
14 check if you have these processes running by executing the ps command
15 with the -Z qualifier.
16 For example:
18 ps -eZ | grep prelink_t
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24 The prelink_t SELinux type can be entered via the prelink_exec_t file
25 type.
26 The default entrypoint paths for the prelink_t domain are the follow‐
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29 /usr/sbin/prelink(.bin)?
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33 SELinux defines process types (domains) for each process running on the
34 system
35 You can see the context of a process using the -Z option to ps
37 Policy governs the access confined processes have to files. SELinux
39 prelink policy is very flexible allowing users to setup their prelink
40 processes in as secure a method as possible.
41 The following process types are defined for prelink:
43 prelink_t, prelink_cron_system_t
45 Note: semanage permissive -a prelink_t can be used to make the process
47 type prelink_t permissive. SELinux does not deny access to permissive
48 process types, but the AVC (SELinux denials) messages are still gener‐
49 ated.
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53 SELinux policy is customizable based on least access required. prelink
54 policy is extremely flexible and has several booleans that allow you to
55 manipulate the policy and run prelink with the tightest access possi‐
56 ble.
57 If you want to control the ability to mmap a low area of the address
61 space, as configured by /proc/sys/vm/mmap_min_addr, you must turn on
62 the mmap_low_allowed boolean. Disabled by default.
63 setsebool -P mmap_low_allowed 1
65 If you want to disable kernel module loading, you must turn on the se‐
69 cure_mode_insmod boolean. Disabled by default.
70 setsebool -P secure_mode_insmod 1
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76 The SELinux process type prelink_t can manage files labeled with the
77 following file types. The paths listed are the default paths for these
78 file types. Note the processes UID still need to have DAC permissions.
79 file_type
81 all files on the system
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86 SELinux requires files to have an extended attribute to define the file
87 type.
88 You can see the context of a file using the -Z option to ls
90 Policy governs the access confined processes have to these files.
92 SELinux prelink policy is very flexible allowing users to setup their
93 prelink processes in as secure a method as possible.
94 EQUIVALENCE DIRECTORIES
96 prelink policy stores data with multiple different file context types
99 under the /var/log/prelink directory. If you would like to store the
100 data in a different directory you can use the semanage command to cre‐
101 ate an equivalence mapping. If you wanted to store this data under the
102 /srv directory you would execute the following command:
103 semanage fcontext -a -e /var/log/prelink /srv/prelink
105 restorecon -R -v /srv/prelink
106 STANDARD FILE CONTEXT
108 SELinux defines the file context types for the prelink, if you wanted
110 to store files with these types in a different paths, you need to exe‐
111 cute the semanage command to specify alternate labeling and then use
112 restorecon to put the labels on disk.
113 semanage fcontext -a -t prelink_exec_t '/srv/prelink/content(/.*)?'
115 restorecon -R -v /srv/myprelink_content
116 Note: SELinux often uses regular expressions to specify labels that
118 match multiple files.
119 The following file types are defined for prelink:
121 prelink_cache_t
125 - Set files with the prelink_cache_t type, if you want to store the
127 files under the /var/cache directory.
128 prelink_cron_system_exec_t
132 - Set files with the prelink_cron_system_exec_t type, if you want to
134 transition an executable to the prelink_cron_system_t domain.
135 prelink_exec_t
139 - Set files with the prelink_exec_t type, if you want to transition an
141 executable to the prelink_t domain.
142 prelink_log_t
146 - Set files with the prelink_log_t type, if you want to treat the data
148 as prelink log data, usually stored under the /var/log directory.
149 Paths:
152 /var/log/prelink(/.*)?, /var/log/prelink.log.*
153 prelink_tmp_t
156 - Set files with the prelink_tmp_t type, if you want to store prelink
158 temporary files in the /tmp directories.
159 prelink_tmpfs_t
163 - Set files with the prelink_tmpfs_t type, if you want to store prelink
165 files on a tmpfs file system.
166 prelink_var_lib_t
170 - Set files with the prelink_var_lib_t type, if you want to store the
172 prelink files under the /var/lib directory.
173 Paths:
176 /var/lib/prelink(/.*)?, /var/lib/misc/prelink.*
177 Note: File context can be temporarily modified with the chcon command.
180 If you want to permanently change the file context you need to use the
181 semanage fcontext command. This will modify the SELinux labeling data‐
182 base. You will need to use restorecon to apply the labels.
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186 semanage fcontext can also be used to manipulate default file context
187 mappings.
188 semanage permissive can also be used to manipulate whether or not a
190 process type is permissive.
191 semanage module can also be used to enable/disable/install/remove pol‐
193 icy modules.
194 semanage boolean can also be used to manipulate the booleans
196 system-config-selinux is a GUI tool available to customize SELinux pol‐
199 icy settings.
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203 This manual page was auto-generated using sepolicy manpage .
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207 selinux(8), prelink(8), semanage(8), restorecon(8), chcon(1), sepol‐
208 icy(8), setsebool(8), prelink_cron_system_selinux(8), prelink_cron_sys‐
209 tem_selinux(8)
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