vmware_selinux(8)

1vmware_selinux(8)            SELinux Policy vmware           vmware_selinux(8)
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NAME

6       vmware_selinux  -  Security  Enhanced  Linux Policy for the vmware pro‐
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DESCRIPTION

10       Security-Enhanced Linux  secures  the  vmware  processes  via  flexible
11       mandatory access control.
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13       The  vmware  processes  execute with the vmware_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 vmware_t
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ENTRYPOINTS

24       The  vmware_t  SELinux  type  can be entered via the vmware_exec_t file
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27       The default entrypoint paths for the vmware_t domain are the following:
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29       /usr/bin/vmware,   /usr/bin/vmware-wizard,    /usr/sbin/vmware-serverd,
30       /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmplayer,            /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-ui,
31       /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-mks,         /usr/lib64/vmware/bin/vmplayer,
32       /usr/lib64/vmware/bin/vmware-ui, /usr/lib64/vmware/bin/vmware-mks
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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       vmware  policy  is  very  flexible allowing users to setup their vmware
42       processes in as secure a method as possible.
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44       The following process types are defined for vmware:
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46       vmware_t, vmware_host_t
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48       Note: semanage permissive -a vmware_t can be used to make  the  process
49       type  vmware_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.  vmware
56       policy is extremely flexible and has several booleans that allow you to
57       manipulate the policy and run vmware with the tightest access possible.
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61       If you want to allow all domains to use other domains file descriptors,
62       you must turn on the allow_domain_fd_use boolean. Enabled by default.
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64       setsebool -P allow_domain_fd_use 1
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68       If you want to allow sysadm to debug or ptrace all processes, you  must
69       turn on the allow_ptrace boolean. Disabled by default.
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75       If  you  want  to allows clients to write to the X server shared memory
76       segments, you must turn on the allow_write_xshm  boolean.  Disabled  by
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79       setsebool -P allow_write_xshm 1
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83       If  you  want to allow all domains to have the kernel load modules, you
84       must  turn  on  the  domain_kernel_load_modules  boolean.  Disabled  by
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87       setsebool -P domain_kernel_load_modules 1
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91       If you want to allow all domains to execute in fips_mode, you must turn
92       on the fips_mode boolean. Enabled by default.
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98       If you want to enable reading of urandom for all domains, you must turn
99       on the global_ssp boolean. Disabled by default.
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105       If  you  want  to  support  NFS  home directories, you must turn on the
106       use_nfs_home_dirs boolean. Disabled by default.
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108       setsebool -P use_nfs_home_dirs 1
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112       If you want to support SAMBA home directories, you  must  turn  on  the
113       use_samba_home_dirs boolean. Disabled by default.
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119       If you want to support X userspace object manager, you must turn on the
120       xserver_object_manager boolean. Disabled by default.
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MANAGED FILES

127       The SELinux process type vmware_t can manage  files  labeled  with  the
128       following file types.  The paths listed are the default paths for these
129       file types.  Note the processes UID still need to have DAC permissions.
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131       initrc_tmp_t
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134       mnt_t
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136            /mnt(/[^/]*)
137            /mnt(/[^/]*)?
138            /rhev(/[^/]*)?
139            /media(/[^/]*)
140            /media(/[^/]*)?
141            /etc/rhgb(/.*)?
142            /media/.hal-.*
143            /net
144            /afs
145            /rhev
146            /misc
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148       tmp_t
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150            /tmp
151            /usr/tmp
152            /var/tmp
153            /tmp-inst
154            /var/tmp-inst
155            /var/tmp/vi.recover
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157       usbfs_t
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162            /home/[^/]*/.fonts/auto(/.*)?
163            /home/[^/]*/.fontconfig(/.*)?
164            /home/[^/]*/.fonts.cache-.*
165            /home/staff/.fonts/auto(/.*)?
166            /home/staff/.fontconfig(/.*)?
167            /home/staff/.fonts.cache-.*
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169       vmware_conf_t
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171            /home/[^/]*/.vmware[^/]*/.*.cfg
172            /home/staff/.vmware[^/]*/.*.cfg
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174       vmware_file_t
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176            /home/[^/]*/vmware(/.*)?
177            /home/[^/]*/.vmware(/.*)?
178            /home/staff/vmware(/.*)?
179            /home/staff/.vmware(/.*)?
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181       vmware_pid_t
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FILE CONTEXTS

195       SELinux requires files to have an extended attribute to define the file
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198       You can see the context of a file using the -Z option to ls
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200       Policy  governs  the  access  confined  processes  have to these files.
201       SELinux vmware policy is very flexible allowing users  to  setup  their
202       vmware processes in as secure a method as possible.
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204       STANDARD FILE CONTEXT
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206       SELinux defines the file context types for the vmware, if you wanted to
207       store files with these types in a diffent paths, you  need  to  execute
208       the  semanage  command  to  sepecify  alternate  labeling  and then use
209       restorecon to put the labels on disk.
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211       semanage fcontext -a -t vmware_tmpfs_t '/srv/myvmware_content(/.*)?'
212       restorecon -R -v /srv/myvmware_content
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214       Note: SELinux often uses regular expressions  to  specify  labels  that
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217       The following file types are defined for vmware:
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221       vmware_conf_t
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223       - Set files with the vmware_conf_t type, if you want to treat the files
224       as vmware configuration data, usually stored under the /etc directory.
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227       Paths:
228            /home/[^/]*/.vmware[^/]*/.*.cfg, /home/staff/.vmware[^/]*/.*.cfg
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231       vmware_exec_t
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233       - Set files with the vmware_exec_t type, if you want to  transition  an
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237       Paths:
238            /usr/bin/vmware, /usr/bin/vmware-wizard, /usr/sbin/vmware-serverd,
239            /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmplayer,       /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-ui,
240            /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-mks,    /usr/lib64/vmware/bin/vmplayer,
241            /usr/lib64/vmware/bin/vmware-ui, /usr/lib64/vmware/bin/vmware-mks
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244       vmware_file_t
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246       - Set files with the vmware_file_t type, if you want to treat the files
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251            /home/[^/]*/vmware(/.*)?,               /home/[^/]*/.vmware(/.*)?,
252            /home/staff/vmware(/.*)?, /home/staff/.vmware(/.*)?
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257       - Set files with the vmware_host_exec_t type, if you want to transition
258       an executable to the vmware_host_t domain.
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262            /usr/sbin/vmware-guest.*,   /usr/lib/vmware-tools/sbin32/vmware.*,
263            /usr/lib/vmware-tools/sbin64/vmware.*,        /usr/bin/vmnet-natd,
264            /usr/bin/vmware-vmx,  /usr/bin/vmnet-dhcpd,  /usr/bin/vmware-nmbd,
265            /usr/bin/vmware-ping, /usr/bin/vmware-smbd, /usr/bin/vmnet-bridge,
266            /usr/bin/vmnet-netifup,  /usr/bin/vmnet-sniffer,  /usr/bin/vmware-
267            network, /usr/bin/vmware-smbpasswd, /usr/bin/vmware-smbpasswd.bin,
268            /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-vmx, /usr/lib64/vmware/bin/vmware-vmx
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273       -  Set  files with the vmware_host_pid_t type, if you want to store the
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280       - Set files with the vmware_host_tmp_t  type,  if  you  want  to  store
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287       -  Set  files with the vmware_log_t type, if you want to treat the data
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297       - Set files with the vmware_pid_t type, if you want to store the vmware
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304       -  Set  files with the vmware_sys_conf_t type, if you want to treat the
305       files as vmware sys configuration data, usually stored under  the  /etc
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310            /etc/vmware.*(/.*)?,                       /usr/lib/vmware/config,
311            /usr/lib64/vmware/config
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316       - Set files with the vmware_tmp_t type, if you  want  to  store  vmware
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323       -  Set  files with the vmware_tmpfs_t type, if you want to store vmware
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328       Note: File context can be temporarily modified with the chcon  command.
329       If  you want to permanently change the file context you need to use the
330       semanage fcontext command.  This will modify the SELinux labeling data‐
331       base.  You will need to use restorecon to apply the labels.
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COMMANDS

335       semanage  fcontext  can also be used to manipulate default file context
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338       semanage permissive can also be used to manipulate  whether  or  not  a
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341       semanage  module can also be used to enable/disable/install/remove pol‐
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344       semanage boolean can also be used to manipulate the booleans
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347       system-config-selinux is a GUI tool available to customize SELinux pol‐
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AUTHOR

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