checkpolicy_selinux(8)

1checkpolicy_selinux(8)    SELinux Policy checkpolicy    checkpolicy_selinux(8)
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NAME

6       checkpolicy_selinux  - Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the checkpol‐
7       icy processes
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DESCRIPTION

10       Security-Enhanced Linux secures the checkpolicy processes via  flexible
11       mandatory access control.
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13       The  checkpolicy processes execute with the checkpolicy_t SELinux type.
14       You can check if you have these processes running by executing  the  ps
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ENTRYPOINTS

24       The  checkpolicy_t  SELinux  type  can  be  entered  via  the checkpol‐
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27       The default entrypoint paths for the checkpolicy_t domain are the  fol‐
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PROCESS TYPES

33       SELinux defines process types (domains) for each process running on the
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36       You can see the context of a process using the -Z option to ps
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38       Policy governs the access confined processes have  to  files.   SELinux
39       checkpolicy  policy  is  very  flexible  allowing  users to setup their
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42       The following process types are defined for checkpolicy:
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46       Note: semanage permissive -a checkpolicy_t can  be  used  to  make  the
47       process  type checkpolicy_t permissive. SELinux does not deny access to
48       permissive process types, but the AVC (SELinux  denials)  messages  are
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BOOLEANS

53       SELinux  policy is customizable based on least access required.  check‐
54       policy policy is extremely flexible and has several booleans that allow
55       you  to  manipulate  the  policy  and run checkpolicy with the tightest
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60       If you want to allow all domains to execute in fips_mode, you must turn
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MANAGED FILES

68       The  SELinux  process  type checkpolicy_t can manage files labeled with
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70       these  file  types.  Note the processes UID still need to have DAC per‐
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75            /etc/selinux/([^/]*/)?policy(/.*)?
76            /etc/selinux/(minimum|mls|targeted)/active(/.*)?
77            /etc/selinux/([^/]*/)?modules/(active|tmp|previous)(/.*)?
78            /var/lib/selinux(/.*)?
79            /etc/share/selinux/mls(/.*)?
80            /etc/share/selinux/targeted(/.*)?
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FILE CONTEXTS

84       SELinux requires files to have an extended attribute to define the file
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87       You can see the context of a file using the -Z option to ls
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89       Policy  governs  the  access  confined  processes  have to these files.
90       SELinux checkpolicy policy is very flexible  allowing  users  to  setup
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93       The following file types are defined for checkpolicy:
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99       - Set files with the checkpolicy_exec_t type, if you want to transition
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104       Note: File context can be temporarily modified with the chcon  command.
105       If  you want to permanently change the file context you need to use the
106       semanage fcontext command.  This will modify the SELinux labeling data‐
107       base.  You will need to use restorecon to apply the labels.
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COMMANDS

111       semanage  fcontext  can also be used to manipulate default file context
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114       semanage permissive can also be used to manipulate  whether  or  not  a
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117       semanage  module can also be used to enable/disable/install/remove pol‐
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120       semanage boolean can also be used to manipulate the booleans
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123       system-config-selinux is a GUI tool available to customize SELinux pol‐
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AUTHOR

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