syslogd_selinux(8)

1syslogd_selinux(8)          SELinux Policy syslogd          syslogd_selinux(8)
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NAME

6       syslogd_selinux  -  Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the syslogd pro‐
7       cesses
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DESCRIPTION

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

24       The  syslogd_t  SELinux type can be entered via the syslogd_exec_t file
25       type.
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27       The default entrypoint paths for the syslogd_t domain are  the  follow‐
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30       /sbin/syslogd,    /sbin/rsyslogd,    /sbin/minilogd,   /sbin/syslog-ng,
31       /usr/sbin/syslogd,        /usr/sbin/metalog,        /usr/sbin/rsyslogd,
32       /usr/sbin/minilogd, /usr/sbin/syslog-ng
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PROCESS TYPES

35       SELinux defines process types (domains) for each process running on the
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38       You can see the context of a process using the -Z option to ps
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40       Policy governs the access confined processes have  to  files.   SELinux
41       syslogd  policy  is very flexible allowing users to setup their syslogd
42       processes in as secure a method as possible.
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44       The following process types are defined for syslogd:
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46       syslogd_t
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48       Note: semanage permissive -a syslogd_t can be used to make the  process
49       type  syslogd_t  permissive. SELinux does not deny access to permissive
50       process types, but the AVC (SELinux denials) messages are still  gener‐
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BOOLEANS

55       SELinux policy is customizable based on least access required.  syslogd
56       policy is extremely flexible and has several booleans that allow you to
57       manipulate  the  policy and run syslogd with the tightest access possi‐
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62       If you want to allow all daemons to write corefiles to /, you must turn
63       on the allow_daemons_dump_core boolean. Disabled by default.
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65       setsebool -P allow_daemons_dump_core 1
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69       If  you want to allow all daemons to use tcp wrappers, you must turn on
70       the allow_daemons_use_tcp_wrapper boolean. Disabled by default.
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72       setsebool -P allow_daemons_use_tcp_wrapper 1
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76       If you want to allow all daemons the ability to  read/write  terminals,
77       you  must  turn  on  the  allow_daemons_use_tty  boolean.  Disabled  by
78       default.
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80       setsebool -P allow_daemons_use_tty 1
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84       If you want to allow all domains to use other domains file descriptors,
85       you must turn on the allow_domain_fd_use boolean. Enabled by default.
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87       setsebool -P allow_domain_fd_use 1
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91       If  you  want  to allow confined applications to run with kerberos, you
92       must turn on the allow_kerberos boolean. Enabled by default.
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94       setsebool -P allow_kerberos 1
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98       If you want to allow sysadm to debug or ptrace all processes, you  must
99       turn on the allow_ptrace boolean. Disabled by default.
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101       setsebool -P allow_ptrace 1
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105       If  you  want  to  allow  system  to run with NIS, you must turn on the
106       allow_ypbind boolean. Disabled by default.
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108       setsebool -P allow_ypbind 1
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112       If you want to enable cluster mode for daemons, you must  turn  on  the
113       daemons_enable_cluster_mode boolean. Disabled by default.
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115       setsebool -P daemons_enable_cluster_mode 1
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119       If  you  want to allow all domains to have the kernel load modules, you
120       must  turn  on  the  domain_kernel_load_modules  boolean.  Disabled  by
121       default.
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123       setsebool -P domain_kernel_load_modules 1
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127       If you want to allow all domains to execute in fips_mode, you must turn
128       on the fips_mode boolean. Enabled by default.
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130       setsebool -P fips_mode 1
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134       If you want to enable reading of urandom for all domains, you must turn
135       on the global_ssp boolean. Disabled by default.
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137       setsebool -P global_ssp 1
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141       If you want to enable support for upstart as the init program, you must
142       turn on the init_upstart boolean. Enabled by default.
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144       setsebool -P init_upstart 1
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148       If you want to allow syslogd daemon to read user tmp content, you  must
149       turn on the logging_syslog_can_read_tmp boolean. Disabled by default.
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151       setsebool -P logging_syslog_can_read_tmp 1
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155       If  you want to allow syslogd daemon to send mail, you must turn on the
156       logging_syslogd_can_sendmail boolean. Disabled by default.
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158       setsebool -P logging_syslogd_can_sendmail 1
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162       If you want to allow syslogd the ability to read/write  terminals,  you
163       must turn on the logging_syslogd_use_tty boolean. Enabled by default.
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165       setsebool -P logging_syslogd_use_tty 1
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169       If  you  want to allow confined applications to use nscd shared memory,
170       you must turn on the nscd_use_shm boolean. Enabled by default.
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PORT TYPES

177       SELinux defines port types to represent TCP and UDP ports.
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179       You can see the types associated with a port  by  using  the  following
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185       Policy  governs  the  access  confined  processes  have to these ports.
186       SELinux syslogd policy is very flexible allowing users to  setup  their
187       syslogd processes in as secure a method as possible.
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189       The following port types are defined for syslogd:
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192       syslogd_port_t
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196       Default Defined Ports:
197                 tcp 6514,601
198                 udp 514,6514,601
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MANAGED FILES

201       The  SELinux  process  type syslogd_t can manage files labeled with the
202       following file types.  The paths listed are the default paths for these
203       file types.  Note the processes UID still need to have DAC permissions.
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205       anon_inodefs_t
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208       cluster_conf_t
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210            /etc/cluster(/.*)?
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212       cluster_var_lib_t
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214            /var/lib(64)?/openais(/.*)?
215            /var/lib(64)?/pengine(/.*)?
216            /var/lib(64)?/corosync(/.*)?
217            /usr/lib(64)?/heartbeat(/.*)?
218            /var/lib(64)?/heartbeat(/.*)?
219            /var/lib(64)?/pacemaker(/.*)?
220            /var/lib/cluster(/.*)?
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222       cluster_var_run_t
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224            /var/run/crm(/.*)?
225            /var/run/cman_.*
226            /var/run/rsctmp(/.*)?
227            /var/run/aisexec.*
228            /var/run/heartbeat(/.*)?
229            /var/run/cpglockd.pid
230            /var/run/corosync.pid
231            /var/run/rgmanager.pid
232            /var/run/cluster/rgmanager.sk
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234       initrc_tmp_t
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237       krb5_host_rcache_t
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239            /var/cache/krb5rcache(/.*)?
240            /var/tmp/host_0
241            /var/tmp/HTTP_23
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243       logfile
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245            all log files
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247       mnt_t
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249            /mnt(/[^/]*)
250            /mnt(/[^/]*)?
251            /rhev(/[^/]*)?
252            /media(/[^/]*)
253            /media(/[^/]*)?
254            /etc/rhgb(/.*)?
255            /media/.hal-.*
256            /net
257            /afs
258            /rhev
259            /misc
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261       root_t
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264            /initrd
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274            /var/lib/r?syslog(/.*)?
275            /var/lib/syslog-ng(/.*)?
276            /var/lib/syslog-ng.persist
277            /var/lib/misc/syslog-ng.persist-?
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279       syslogd_var_run_t
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281            /var/run/log(/.*)?
282            /var/run/syslog-ng.ctl
283            /var/run/syslog-ng(/.*)?
284            /var/run/metalog.pid
285            /var/run/syslogd.pid
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287       tmp_t
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289            /tmp
290            /usr/tmp
291            /var/tmp
292            /tmp-inst
293            /var/tmp-inst
294            /var/tmp/vi.recover
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FILE CONTEXTS

298       SELinux requires files to have an extended attribute to define the file
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301       You can see the context of a file using the -Z option to ls
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303       Policy governs the access  confined  processes  have  to  these  files.
304       SELinux  syslogd  policy is very flexible allowing users to setup their
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307       EQUIVALENCE DIRECTORIES
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310       syslogd policy stores data with multiple different file  context  types
311       under the /var/lib/syslog-ng directory.  If you would like to store the
312       data in a different directory you can use the semanage command to  cre‐
313       ate an equivalence mapping.  If you wanted to store this data under the
314       /srv dirctory you would execute the following command:
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317       restorecon -R -v /srv/syslog-ng
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319       syslogd policy stores data with multiple different file  context  types
320       under the /var/run/syslog-ng directory.  If you would like to store the
321       data in a different directory you can use the semanage command to  cre‐
322       ate an equivalence mapping.  If you wanted to store this data under the
323       /srv dirctory you would execute the following command:
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326       restorecon -R -v /srv/syslog-ng
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328       STANDARD FILE CONTEXT
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330       SELinux defines the file context types for the syslogd, if  you  wanted
331       to store files with these types in a diffent paths, you need to execute
332       the semanage command  to  sepecify  alternate  labeling  and  then  use
333       restorecon to put the labels on disk.
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335       semanage   fcontext   -a   -t   syslogd_var_run_t  '/srv/mysyslogd_con‐
336       tent(/.*)?'
337       restorecon -R -v /srv/mysyslogd_content
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339       Note: SELinux often uses regular expressions  to  specify  labels  that
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342       The following file types are defined for syslogd:
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348       -  Set files with the syslogd_exec_t type, if you want to transition an
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352       Paths:
353            /sbin/syslogd,  /sbin/rsyslogd,  /sbin/minilogd,  /sbin/syslog-ng,
354            /usr/sbin/syslogd,      /usr/sbin/metalog,     /usr/sbin/rsyslogd,
355            /usr/sbin/minilogd, /usr/sbin/syslog-ng
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360       - Set files with the syslogd_initrc_exec_t type, if you want to transi‐
361       tion an executable to the syslogd_initrc_t domain.
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365       syslogd_keytab_t
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367       -  Set  files  with the syslogd_keytab_t type, if you want to treat the
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374       - Set files with the syslogd_tmp_t type, if you want to  store  syslogd
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379       syslogd_var_lib_t
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381       -  Set  files with the syslogd_var_lib_t type, if you want to store the
382       syslogd files under the /var/lib directory.
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385       Paths:
386            /var/lib/r?syslog(/.*)?,  /var/lib/syslog-ng(/.*)?,  /var/lib/sys‐
387            log-ng.persist, /var/lib/misc/syslog-ng.persist-?
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392       -  Set  files with the syslogd_var_run_t type, if you want to store the
393       syslogd files under the /run or /var/run directory.
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396       Paths:
397            /var/run/log(/.*)?,    /var/run/syslog-ng.ctl,    /var/run/syslog-
398            ng(/.*)?, /var/run/metalog.pid, /var/run/syslogd.pid
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401       Note:  File context can be temporarily modified with the chcon command.
402       If you want to permanently change the file context you need to use  the
403       semanage fcontext command.  This will modify the SELinux labeling data‐
404       base.  You will need to use restorecon to apply the labels.
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COMMANDS

408       semanage fcontext can also be used to manipulate default  file  context
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411       semanage  permissive  can  also  be used to manipulate whether or not a
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414       semanage module can also be used to enable/disable/install/remove  pol‐
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417       semanage port can also be used to manipulate the port definitions
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419       semanage boolean can also be used to manipulate the booleans
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422       system-config-selinux is a GUI tool available to customize SELinux pol‐
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AUTHOR

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