snort_selinux(8)

1snort_selinux(8)             SELinux Policy snort             snort_selinux(8)
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NAME

6       snort_selinux - Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the snort processes
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DESCRIPTION

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

23       The snort_t SELinux type can be entered via the snort_exec_t file type.
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25       The default entrypoint paths for the snort_t domain are the following:
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27       /usr/bin/snort, /usr/sbin/snort, /usr/sbin/snort-plain
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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       snort policy is very flexible allowing users to setup their snort  pro‐
37       cesses in as secure a method as possible.
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39       The following process types are defined for snort:
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41       snort_t
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43       Note:  semanage  permissive  -a snort_t can be used to make the process
44       type snort_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.   snort
51       policy is extremely flexible and has several booleans that allow you to
52       manipulate the policy and run snort 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 snort_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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103            /var/lib/pcsd(/.*)?
104            /var/lib/cluster(/.*)?
105            /var/lib/openais(/.*)?
106            /var/lib/pengine(/.*)?
107            /var/lib/corosync(/.*)?
108            /usr/lib/heartbeat(/.*)?
109            /var/lib/heartbeat(/.*)?
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115            /var/run/cman_.*
116            /var/run/rsctmp(/.*)?
117            /var/run/aisexec.*
118            /var/run/heartbeat(/.*)?
119            /var/run/corosync-qnetd(/.*)?
120            /var/run/corosync-qdevice(/.*)?
121            /var/run/corosync.pid
122            /var/run/cpglockd.pid
123            /var/run/rgmanager.pid
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128            /var/spool/prelude(/.*)?
129            /var/spool/prelude-manager(/.*)?
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133            /sysroot/ostree/deploy/.*-atomic/deploy(/.*)?
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FILE CONTEXTS

150       SELinux requires files to have an extended attribute to define the file
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153       You can see the context of a file using the -Z option to ls
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155       Policy  governs  the  access  confined  processes  have to these files.
156       SELinux snort policy is very flexible allowing  users  to  setup  their
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159       STANDARD FILE CONTEXT
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161       SELinux  defines the file context types for the snort, if you wanted to
162       store files with these types in a diffent paths, you  need  to  execute
163       the  semanage  command  to  sepecify  alternate  labeling  and then use
164       restorecon to put the labels on disk.
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166       semanage fcontext -a -t snort_var_run_t '/srv/mysnort_content(/.*)?'
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169       Note: SELinux often uses regular expressions  to  specify  labels  that
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172       The following file types are defined for snort:
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178       - Set files with the snort_etc_t type, if you want to store snort files
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185       - Set files with the snort_exec_t type, if you want  to  transition  an
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195       -  Set  files with the snort_initrc_exec_t type, if you want to transi‐
196       tion an executable to the snort_initrc_t domain.
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202       - Set files with the snort_log_t type, if you want to treat the data as
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209       -  Set files with the snort_tmp_t type, if you want to store snort tem‐
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216       - Set files with the snort_var_run_t type, if you  want  to  store  the
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221       Note:  File context can be temporarily modified with the chcon command.
222       If you want to permanently change the file context you need to use  the
223       semanage fcontext command.  This will modify the SELinux labeling data‐
224       base.  You will need to use restorecon to apply the labels.
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COMMANDS

228       semanage fcontext can also be used to manipulate default  file  context
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231       semanage  permissive  can  also  be used to manipulate whether or not a
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234       semanage module can also be used to enable/disable/install/remove  pol‐
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237       semanage boolean can also be used to manipulate the booleans
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240       system-config-selinux is a GUI tool available to customize SELinux pol‐
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AUTHOR

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