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6 acct_selinux - Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the acct processes
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9 Security-Enhanced Linux secures the acct processes via flexible manda‐
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12 The acct processes execute with the acct_t SELinux type. You can check
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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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30 SELinux defines process types (domains) for each process running on the
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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‐
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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
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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
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121 the semanage command to sepecify alternate labeling and then use
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124 semanage fcontext -a -t acct_data_t '/srv/myacct_content(/.*)?'
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136 - Set files with the acct_data_t type, if you want to treat the files
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180 system-config-selinux is a GUI tool available to customize SELinux pol‐
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185 This manual page was auto-generated using sepolicy manpage .
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189 selinux(8), acct(8), semanage(8), restorecon(8), chcon(1), sepolicy(8),
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