vmware_selinux(8)

1vmware_selinux(8)            SELinux Policy vmware           vmware_selinux(8)
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NAME

6       vmware_selinux  -  Security  Enhanced  Linux Policy for the vmware pro‐
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DESCRIPTION

10       Security-Enhanced Linux  secures  the  vmware  processes  via  flexible
11       mandatory access control.
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13       The  vmware  processes  execute with the vmware_t SELinux type. You can
14       check if you have these processes running by executing the  ps  command
15       with the -Z qualifier.
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19       ps -eZ | grep vmware_t
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ENTRYPOINTS

24       The  vmware_t  SELinux  type  can be entered via the vmware_exec_t file
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27       The default entrypoint paths for the vmware_t domain are the following:
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29       /opt/vmware/(workstation|player)/bin/vmware,      /opt/vmware/(worksta‐
30       tion|player)/bin/vmware-ping,                     /opt/vmware/(worksta‐
31       tion|player)/bin/vmware-wizard, /usr/bin/vmware,  /usr/bin/vmware-ping,
32       /usr/bin/vmware-wizard,                       /usr/sbin/vmware-serverd,
33       /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmplayer,            /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-ui,
34       /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-mks
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PROCESS TYPES

37       SELinux defines process types (domains) for each process running on the
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40       You can see the context of a process using the -Z option to ps
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42       Policy governs the access confined processes have  to  files.   SELinux
43       vmware  policy  is  very  flexible allowing users to setup their vmware
44       processes in as secure a method as possible.
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46       The following process types are defined for vmware:
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48       vmware_t, vmware_host_t
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50       Note: semanage permissive -a vmware_t can be used to make  the  process
51       type  vmware_t  permissive.  SELinux does not deny access to permissive
52       process types, but the AVC (SELinux denials) messages are still  gener‐
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BOOLEANS

57       SELinux  policy is customizable based on least access required.  vmware
58       policy is extremely flexible and has several booleans that allow you to
59       manipulate the policy and run vmware with the tightest access possible.
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63       If you want to allow all domains to execute in fips_mode, you must turn
64       on the fips_mode boolean. Enabled by default.
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70       If you want to allow confined applications to use nscd  shared  memory,
71       you must turn on the nscd_use_shm boolean. Disabled by default.
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77       If  you  want to allow regular users direct dri device access, you must
78       turn  on  the  selinuxuser_direct_dri_enabled  boolean.   Disabled   by
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85       If  you  want  to  support  NFS  home directories, you must turn on the
86       use_nfs_home_dirs boolean. Enabled by default.
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92       If you want to support SAMBA home directories, you  must  turn  on  the
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99       If  you  want  to allows clients to write to the X server shared memory
100       segments, you must turn on the xserver_clients_write_xshm boolean. Dis‐
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MANAGED FILES

108       The  SELinux  process  type  vmware_t can manage files labeled with the
109       following file types.  The paths listed are the default paths for these
110       file types.  Note the processes UID still need to have DAC permissions.
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120            /root/.fontconfig(/.*)?
121            /root/.fonts/auto(/.*)?
122            /root/.fonts.cache-.*
123            /root/.cache/fontconfig(/.*)?
124            /home/[^/]+/.fontconfig(/.*)?
125            /home/[^/]+/.fonts/auto(/.*)?
126            /home/[^/]+/.fonts.cache-.*
127            /home/[^/]+/.cache/fontconfig(/.*)?
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135            /home/[^/]+/vmware(/.*)?
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FILE CONTEXTS

143       SELinux requires files to have an extended attribute to define the file
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146       You can see the context of a file using the -Z option to ls
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148       Policy governs the access  confined  processes  have  to  these  files.
149       SELinux  vmware  policy  is very flexible allowing users to setup their
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152       STANDARD FILE CONTEXT
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154       SELinux defines the file context types for the vmware, if you wanted to
155       store  files  with  these types in a diffent paths, you need to execute
156       the semanage command  to  sepecify  alternate  labeling  and  then  use
157       restorecon to put the labels on disk.
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159       semanage fcontext -a -t vmware_tmpfs_t '/srv/myvmware_content(/.*)?'
160       restorecon -R -v /srv/myvmware_content
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162       Note:  SELinux  often  uses  regular expressions to specify labels that
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165       The following file types are defined for vmware:
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171       - Set files with the vmware_conf_t type, if you want to treat the files
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178       -  Set  files with the vmware_exec_t type, if you want to transition an
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182       Paths:
183            /opt/vmware/(workstation|player)/bin/vmware, /opt/vmware/(worksta‐
184            tion|player)/bin/vmware-ping,                /opt/vmware/(worksta‐
185            tion|player)/bin/vmware-wizard, /usr/bin/vmware,  /usr/bin/vmware-
186            ping,       /usr/bin/vmware-wizard,      /usr/sbin/vmware-serverd,
187            /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmplayer,       /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-ui,
188            /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-mks
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193       - Set files with the vmware_file_t type, if you want to treat the files
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198            /home/[^/]+/vmware(/.*)?, /home/[^/]+/.vmware(/.*)?
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203       - Set files with the vmware_host_exec_t type, if you want to transition
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208            /opt/vmware/(workstation|player)/bin/vmnet-natd,
209            /opt/vmware/(workstation|player)/bin/vmnet-dhcpd,
210            /opt/vmware/(workstation|player)/bin/vmware-nmbd,
211            /opt/vmware/(workstation|player)/bin/vmware-smbd,
212            /opt/vmware/(workstation|player)/bin/vmnet-bridge,
213            /opt/vmware/(workstation|player)/bin/vmnet-netifup,
214            /opt/vmware/(workstation|player)/bin/vmnet-sniffer,
215            /opt/vmware/(workstation|player)/bin/vmware-smbpasswd,
216            /opt/vmware/(workstation|player)/bin/vmware-smbpasswd.bin,
217            /usr/sbin/vmware-guest.*,   /usr/lib/vmware-tools/sbin32/vmware.*,
218            /usr/lib/vmware-tools/sbin64/vmware.*,        /usr/bin/vmnet-natd,
219            /usr/bin/vmware-vmx,  /usr/bin/vmnet-dhcpd,  /usr/bin/vmware-nmbd,
220            /usr/bin/vmware-smbd,  /usr/bin/vmnet-bridge, /usr/bin/vmnet-neti‐
221            fup,       /usr/bin/vmnet-sniffer,        /usr/bin/vmware-network,
222            /usr/bin/vmware-smbpasswd,          /usr/bin/vmware-smbpasswd.bin,
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228       - Set files with the vmware_host_pid_t type, if you want to  store  the
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238       -  Set  files  with  the  vmware_host_tmp_t  type, if you want to store
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245       - Set files with the vmware_log_t type, if you want to treat  the  data
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255       - Set files with the vmware_pid_t type, if you want to store the vmware
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262       - Set files with the vmware_sys_conf_t type, if you want to  treat  the
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273       - Set files with the vmware_tmp_t type, if you  want  to  store  vmware
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280       -  Set  files with the vmware_tmpfs_t type, if you want to store vmware
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285       Note: File context can be temporarily modified with the chcon  command.
286       If  you want to permanently change the file context you need to use the
287       semanage fcontext command.  This will modify the SELinux labeling data‐
288       base.  You will need to use restorecon to apply the labels.
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COMMANDS

292       semanage  fcontext  can also be used to manipulate default file context
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295       semanage permissive can also be used to manipulate  whether  or  not  a
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298       semanage  module can also be used to enable/disable/install/remove pol‐
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301       semanage boolean can also be used to manipulate the booleans
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304       system-config-selinux is a GUI tool available to customize SELinux pol‐
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AUTHOR

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