1policykit_selinux(8) SELinux Policy policykit policykit_selinux(8)
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6 policykit_selinux - Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the policykit
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10 Security-Enhanced Linux secures the policykit processes via flexible
11 mandatory access control.
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13 The policykit processes execute with the policykit_t SELinux type. You
14 can check if you have these processes running by executing the ps com‐
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19 ps -eZ | grep policykit_t
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24 The policykit_t SELinux type can be entered via the policykit_exec_t
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27 The default entrypoint paths for the policykit_t domain are the follow‐
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30 /usr/libexec/polkitd.*, /usr/libexec/polkit-1/polkitd.*,
31 /usr/lib/polkit-1/polkitd, /usr/lib/policykit/polkitd
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34 SELinux defines process types (domains) for each process running on the
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37 You can see the context of a process using the -Z option to ps
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39 Policy governs the access confined processes have to files. SELinux
40 policykit policy is very flexible allowing users to setup their poli‐
41 cykit processes in as secure a method as possible.
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43 The following process types are defined for policykit:
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45 policykit_t, policykit_auth_t, policykit_grant_t, policykit_resolve_t
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47 Note: semanage permissive -a policykit_t can be used to make the
48 process type policykit_t permissive. SELinux does not deny access to
49 permissive process types, but the AVC (SELinux denials) messages are
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54 SELinux policy is customizable based on least access required. poli‐
55 cykit policy is extremely flexible and has several booleans that allow
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61 If you want to allow users to resolve user passwd entries directly from
62 ldap rather then using a sssd server, you must turn on the authlo‐
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98 The SELinux process type policykit_t can manage files labeled with the
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108 /var/lib/pcsd(/.*)?
109 /var/lib/cluster(/.*)?
110 /var/lib/openais(/.*)?
111 /var/lib/pengine(/.*)?
112 /var/lib/corosync(/.*)?
113 /usr/lib/heartbeat(/.*)?
114 /var/lib/heartbeat(/.*)?
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119 /var/run/crm(/.*)?
120 /var/run/cman_.*
121 /var/run/rsctmp(/.*)?
122 /var/run/aisexec.*
123 /var/run/heartbeat(/.*)?
124 /var/run/corosync-qnetd(/.*)?
125 /var/run/corosync-qdevice(/.*)?
126 /var/run/corosync.pid
127 /var/run/cpglockd.pid
128 /var/run/rgmanager.pid
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133 /var/cache/krb5rcache(/.*)?
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176 SELinux policykit policy is very flexible allowing users to setup their
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179 EQUIVALENCE DIRECTORIES
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182 policykit policy stores data with multiple different file context types
183 under the /var/lib/PolicyKit directory. If you would like to store the
184 data in a different directory you can use the semanage command to cre‐
185 ate an equivalence mapping. If you wanted to store this data under the
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188 semanage fcontext -a -e /var/lib/PolicyKit /srv/PolicyKit
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191 STANDARD FILE CONTEXT
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193 SELinux defines the file context types for the policykit, if you wanted
194 to store files with these types in a diffent paths, you need to execute
195 the semanage command to sepecify alternate labeling and then use
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198 semanage fcontext -a -t policykit_var_run_t '/srv/mypolicykit_con‐
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211 - Set files with the policykit_auth_exec_t type, if you want to transi‐
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217 helper, /usr/lib/polkit-1/polkit-agent-helper-1, /usr/lib/poli‐
218 cykit/polkit-read-auth-helper, /usr/libexec/polkit-1/polkit-agent-
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230 /usr/lib/polkit-1/polkitd, /usr/lib/policykit/polkitd
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235 - Set files with the policykit_grant_exec_t type, if you want to tran‐
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264 - Set files with the policykit_tmp_t type, if you want to store poli‐
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289 semanage fcontext command. This will modify the SELinux labeling data‐
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311 This manual page was auto-generated using sepolicy manpage .
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315 selinux(8), policykit(8), semanage(8), restorecon(8), chcon(1), sepol‐
316 icy(8), setsebool(8), policykit_auth_selinux(8), poli‐
317 cykit_auth_selinux(8), policykit_grant_selinux(8), poli‐
318 cykit_grant_selinux(8), policykit_resolve_selinux(8), poli‐
319 cykit_resolve_selinux(8)
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