1plymouth_selinux(8) SELinux Policy plymouth plymouth_selinux(8)
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6 plymouth_selinux - Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the plymouth pro‐
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10 Security-Enhanced Linux secures the plymouth processes via flexible
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13 The plymouth processes execute with the plymouth_t SELinux type. You
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24 The plymouth_t SELinux type can be entered via the plymouth_exec_t file
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27 The default entrypoint paths for the plymouth_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
39 plymouth policy is very flexible allowing users to setup their plymouth
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42 The following process types are defined for plymouth:
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46 Note: semanage permissive -a plymouth_t can be used to make the process
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53 SELinux policy is customizable based on least access required. ply‐
54 mouth policy is extremely flexible and has several booleans that allow
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60 If you want to deny any process from ptracing or debugging any other
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123 STANDARD FILE CONTEXT
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125 SELinux defines the file context types for the plymouth, if you wanted
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130 semanage fcontext -a -t plymouthd_var_run_t '/srv/myplymouth_con‐
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143 - Set files with the plymouth_exec_t type, if you want to transition an
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170 - Set files with the plymouthd_var_lib_t type, if you want to store the
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177 - Set files with the plymouthd_var_log_t type, if you want to treat the
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185 - Set files with the plymouthd_var_run_t type, if you want to store the
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218 selinux(8), plymouth(8), semanage(8), restorecon(8), chcon(1), sepol‐
219 icy(8) , setsebool(8)
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