tcpd_selinux(8)

1tcpd_selinux(8)               SELinux Policy tcpd              tcpd_selinux(8)
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NAME

6       tcpd_selinux - Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the tcpd processes
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DESCRIPTION

9       Security-Enhanced  Linux secures the tcpd processes via flexible manda‐
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12       The tcpd processes execute with the tcpd_t SELinux type. You can  check
13       if  you  have  these processes running by executing the ps command with
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ENTRYPOINTS

23       The tcpd_t SELinux type can be entered via the tcpd_exec_t file type.
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25       The default entrypoint paths for the tcpd_t domain are the following:
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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       tcpd policy is very flexible allowing users to setup  their  tcpd  pro‐
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39       The following process types are defined for tcpd:
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43       Note:  semanage  permissive  -a  tcpd_t can be used to make the process
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BOOLEANS

50       SELinux policy is customizable based on least  access  required.   tcpd
51       policy is extremely flexible and has several booleans that allow you to
52       manipulate the policy and run tcpd with the tightest access possible.
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56       If you want to allow all domains to execute in fips_mode, you must turn
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59       setsebool -P fips_mode 1
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63       If  you  want  to  allow  system  to run with NIS, you must turn on the
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70       If you want to allow sshd to use tcp wrappers, you  must  turn  on  the
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FILE CONTEXTS

78       SELinux requires files to have an extended attribute to define the file
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83       Policy governs the access  confined  processes  have  to  these  files.
84       SELinux tcpd policy is very flexible allowing users to setup their tcpd
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87       STANDARD FILE CONTEXT
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89       SELinux defines the file context types for the tcpd, if you  wanted  to
90       store  files  with  these types in a diffent paths, you need to execute
91       the semanage command  to  sepecify  alternate  labeling  and  then  use
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97       Note:  SELinux  often  uses  regular expressions to specify labels that
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106       - Set files with the tcpd_exec_t type, if you  want  to  transition  an
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113       -  Set files with the tcpd_tmp_t type, if you want to store tcpd tempo‐
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118       Note: File context can be temporarily modified with the chcon  command.
119       If  you want to permanently change the file context you need to use the
120       semanage fcontext command.  This will modify the SELinux labeling data‐
121       base.  You will need to use restorecon to apply the labels.
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COMMANDS

125       semanage  fcontext  can also be used to manipulate default file context
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128       semanage permissive can also be used to manipulate  whether  or  not  a
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131       semanage  module can also be used to enable/disable/install/remove pol‐
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134       semanage boolean can also be used to manipulate the booleans
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137       system-config-selinux is a GUI tool available to customize SELinux pol‐
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AUTHOR

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