sendmail_selinux(8)

1sendmail_selinux(8)         SELinux Policy sendmail        sendmail_selinux(8)
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NAME

6       sendmail_selinux - Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the sendmail pro‐
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DESCRIPTION

10       Security-Enhanced Linux secures the  sendmail  processes  via  flexible
11       mandatory access control.
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13       The  sendmail  processes  execute with the sendmail_t SELinux type. You
14       can check if you have these processes running by executing the ps  com‐
15       mand with the -Z qualifier.
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17       For example:
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19       ps -eZ | grep sendmail_t
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ENTRYPOINTS

24       The  sendmail_t  SELinux type can be entered via the mta_exec_type file
25       type.
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27       The default entrypoint paths for the sendmail_t domain are the  follow‐
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PROCESS TYPES

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
39       sendmail policy is very flexible allowing users to setup their sendmail
40       processes in as secure a method as possible.
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42       The following process types are defined for sendmail:
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44       sendmail_t
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46       Note: semanage permissive -a sendmail_t can be used to make the process
47       type  sendmail_t permissive. SELinux does not deny access to permissive
48       process types, but the AVC (SELinux denials) messages are still  gener‐
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BOOLEANS

53       SELinux  policy  is customizable based on least access required.  send‐
54       mail policy is extremely flexible and has several booleans  that  allow
55       you  to manipulate the policy and run sendmail with the tightest access
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60       If you want to allow all domains to execute in fips_mode, you must turn
61       on the fips_mode boolean. Enabled by default.
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63       setsebool -P fips_mode 1
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67       If  you  want  to  allow  system  to run with NIS, you must turn on the
68       nis_enabled boolean. Disabled by default.
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MANAGED FILES

75       The SELinux process type sendmail_t can manage files labeled  with  the
76       following file types.  The paths listed are the default paths for these
77       file types.  Note the processes UID still need to have DAC permissions.
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79       cifs_t
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82       dovecot_spool_t
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84            /var/spool/dovecot(/.*)?
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86       ecryptfs_t
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88            /home/[^/]+/.Private(/.*)?
89            /home/[^/]+/.ecryptfs(/.*)?
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91       etc_aliases_t
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93            /etc/mail/.*.db
94            /etc/mail/aliases.*
95            /etc/postfix/aliases.*
96            /etc/aliases
97            /etc/aliases.db
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99       exim_spool_t
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101            /var/spool/exim[0-9]?(/.*)?
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103       fusefs_t
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105            /var/run/user/[0-9]+/gvfs
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107       krb5_host_rcache_t
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109            /var/tmp/krb5_0.rcache2
110            /var/cache/krb5rcache(/.*)?
111            /var/tmp/nfs_0
112            /var/tmp/DNS_25
113            /var/tmp/host_0
114            /var/tmp/imap_0
115            /var/tmp/HTTP_23
116            /var/tmp/HTTP_48
117            /var/tmp/ldap_55
118            /var/tmp/ldap_487
119            /var/tmp/ldapmap1_0
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121       mail_home_rw_t
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123            /root/Maildir(/.*)?
124            /root/.esmtp_queue(/.*)?
125            /var/lib/arpwatch/.esmtp_queue(/.*)?
126            /var/cache/ddclient/.esmtp_queue(/.*)?
127            /home/[^/]+/.maildir(/.*)?
128            /home/[^/]+/Maildir(/.*)?
129            /home/[^/]+/.esmtp_queue(/.*)?
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131       mailman_data_t
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133            /etc/mailman.*
134            /var/lib/mailman(/.*)?
135            /var/spool/mailman.*
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137       mqueue_spool_t
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139            /var/spool/(client)?mqueue(/.*)?
140            /var/spool/mqueue.in(/.*)?
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147            /var/log/mail(/.*)?
148            /var/log/sendmail.st.*
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150       sendmail_var_run_t
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152            /var/run/smtpd.sock
153            /var/run/sendmail.pid
154            /var/run/sm-client.pid
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156       user_home_t
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FILE CONTEXTS

162       SELinux requires files to have an extended attribute to define the file
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165       You can see the context of a file using the -Z option to ls
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167       Policy  governs  the  access  confined  processes  have to these files.
168       SELinux sendmail policy is very flexible allowing users to setup  their
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171       STANDARD FILE CONTEXT
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173       SELinux  defines the file context types for the sendmail, if you wanted
174       to store files with these types in a different paths, you need to  exe‐
175       cute  the  semanage  command to specify alternate labeling and then use
176       restorecon to put the labels on disk.
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178       semanage fcontext -a -t sendmail_exec_t '/srv/sendmail/content(/.*)?'
179       restorecon -R -v /srv/mysendmail_content
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181       Note: SELinux often uses regular expressions  to  specify  labels  that
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184       The following file types are defined for sendmail:
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188       sendmail_exec_t
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190       - Set files with the sendmail_exec_t type, if you want to transition an
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194       Paths:
195            /usr/sbin/sendmail(.sendmail)?,  /usr/bin/esmtp,   /usr/bin/msmtp,
196            /usr/bin/msmtpd,         /usr/sbin/rmail,         /usr/sbin/smtpd,
197            /usr/sbin/ssmtp,    /usr/lib/sendmail,     /usr/bin/esmtp-wrapper,
198            /var/qmail/bin/sendmail, /usr/sbin/sendmail.postfix
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203       -  Set files with the sendmail_initrc_exec_t type, if you want to tran‐
204       sition an executable to the sendmail_initrc_t domain.
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210       - Set files with the sendmail_keytab_t type, if you want to  treat  the
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217       - Set files with the sendmail_log_t type, if you want to treat the data
218       as sendmail log data, usually stored under the /var/log directory.
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222            /var/log/mail(/.*)?, /var/log/sendmail.st.*
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225       sendmail_tmp_t
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227       - Set files with the sendmail_tmp_t type, if you want to store sendmail
228       temporary files in the /tmp directories.
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234       -  Set files with the sendmail_var_run_t type, if you want to store the
235       sendmail files under the /run or /var/run directory.
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239            /var/run/smtpd.sock, /var/run/sendmail.pid, /var/run/sm-client.pid
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242       Note: File context can be temporarily modified with the chcon  command.
243       If  you want to permanently change the file context you need to use the
244       semanage fcontext command.  This will modify the SELinux labeling data‐
245       base.  You will need to use restorecon to apply the labels.
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COMMANDS

249       semanage  fcontext  can also be used to manipulate default file context
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252       semanage permissive can also be used to manipulate  whether  or  not  a
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255       semanage  module can also be used to enable/disable/install/remove pol‐
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258       semanage boolean can also be used to manipulate the booleans
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261       system-config-selinux is a GUI tool available to customize SELinux pol‐
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AUTHOR

266       This manual page was auto-generated using sepolicy manpage .
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