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6 ping_selinux - Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the ping processes
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9 Security-Enhanced Linux secures the ping processes via flexible manda‐
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12 The ping processes execute with the ping_t SELinux type. You can check
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23 The ping_t SELinux type can be entered via the ping_exec_t file type.
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27 /bin/ping.*, /usr/bin/ping.*, /usr/sbin/fping.*, /usr/sbin/hping2,
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31 SELinux defines process types (domains) for each process running on the
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34 You can see the context of a process using the -Z option to ps
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36 Policy governs the access confined processes have to files. SELinux
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40 The following process types are defined for ping:
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42 ping_t, pingd_t
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44 Note: semanage permissive -a ping_t can be used to make the process
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51 SELinux policy is customizable based on least access required. ping
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111 SELinux ping policy is very flexible allowing users to setup their ping
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114 The following port types are defined for ping:
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125 SELinux requires files to have an extended attribute to define the file
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131 SELinux ping policy is very flexible allowing users to setup their ping
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134 STANDARD FILE CONTEXT
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136 SELinux defines the file context types for the ping, if you wanted to
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138 the semanage command to sepecify alternate labeling and then use
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141 semanage fcontext -a -t pingd_modules_t '/srv/myping_content(/.*)?'
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216 This manual page was auto-generated using sepolicy manpage .
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220 selinux(8), ping(8), semanage(8), restorecon(8), chcon(1), sepolicy(8),
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