acct_selinux(8)

1acct_selinux(8)               SELinux Policy acct              acct_selinux(8)
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NAME

6       acct_selinux - Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the acct processes
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DESCRIPTION

9       Security-Enhanced  Linux secures the acct processes via flexible manda‐
10       tory access control.
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12       The acct processes execute with the acct_t SELinux type. You can  check
13       if  you  have  these processes running by executing the ps command with
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ENTRYPOINTS

23       The acct_t SELinux type can be entered via the acct_exec_t file type.
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25       The default entrypoint paths for the acct_t domain are the following:
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27       /etc/cron.(daily|monthly)/acct, /sbin/accton, /usr/sbin/accton
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PROCESS TYPES

30       SELinux defines process types (domains) for each process running on the
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33       You can see the context of a process using the -Z option to ps
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35       Policy  governs  the  access confined processes have to files.  SELinux
36       acct policy is very flexible allowing users to setup  their  acct  pro‐
37       cesses in as secure a method as possible.
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39       The following process types are defined for acct:
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43       Note:  semanage  permissive  -a  acct_t can be used to make the process
44       type acct_t permissive. SELinux does  not  deny  access  to  permissive
45       process  types, but the AVC (SELinux denials) messages are still gener‐
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BOOLEANS

50       SELinux policy is customizable based on least  access  required.   acct
51       policy is extremely flexible and has several booleans that allow you to
52       manipulate the policy and run acct with the tightest access possible.
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56       If you want to allow users to resolve user passwd entries directly from
57       ldap  rather  then  using  a  sssd server, you must turn on the authlo‐
58       gin_nsswitch_use_ldap boolean. Disabled by default.
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64       If you want to allow all domains to execute in fips_mode, you must turn
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71       If  you  want  to allow confined applications to run with kerberos, you
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78       If you want to allow system to run with  NIS,  you  must  turn  on  the
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85       If  you  want to allow confined applications to use nscd shared memory,
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MANAGED FILES

93       The SELinux process type acct_t can manage files labeled with the  fol‐
94       lowing  file  types.   The paths listed are the default paths for these
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FILE CONTEXTS

108       SELinux requires files to have an extended attribute to define the file
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111       You can see the context of a file using the -Z option to ls
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113       Policy  governs  the  access  confined  processes  have to these files.
114       SELinux acct policy is very flexible allowing users to setup their acct
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117       STANDARD FILE CONTEXT
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119       SELinux  defines  the file context types for the acct, if you wanted to
120       store files with these types in a diffent paths, you  need  to  execute
121       the  semanage  command  to  sepecify  alternate  labeling  and then use
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127       Note: SELinux often uses regular expressions  to  specify  labels  that
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130       The following file types are defined for acct:
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136       -  Set  files with the acct_data_t type, if you want to treat the files
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146       - Set files with the acct_exec_t type, if you  want  to  transition  an
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151            /etc/cron.(daily|monthly)/acct, /sbin/accton, /usr/sbin/accton
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156       - Set files with the acct_initrc_exec_t type, if you want to transition
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161       Note: File context can be temporarily modified with the chcon  command.
162       If  you want to permanently change the file context you need to use the
163       semanage fcontext command.  This will modify the SELinux labeling data‐
164       base.  You will need to use restorecon to apply the labels.
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COMMANDS

168       semanage  fcontext  can also be used to manipulate default file context
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171       semanage permissive can also be used to manipulate  whether  or  not  a
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174       semanage  module can also be used to enable/disable/install/remove pol‐
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177       semanage boolean can also be used to manipulate the booleans
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180       system-config-selinux is a GUI tool available to customize SELinux pol‐
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AUTHOR

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