dovecot_auth_selinux(8)

1dovecot_auth_selinux(8)   SELinux Policy dovecot_auth  dovecot_auth_selinux(8)
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NAME

6       dovecot_auth_selinux  -  Security  Enhanced  Linux Policy for the dove‐
7       cot_auth processes
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DESCRIPTION

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

24       The   dovecot_auth_t   SELinux  type  can  be  entered  via  the  dove‐
25       cot_auth_exec_t file type.
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27       The default entrypoint paths for the dovecot_auth_t domain are the fol‐
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30       /usr/libexec/dovecot/auth, /usr/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-auth
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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       dovecot_auth  policy  is  very  flexible  allowing users to setup their
40       dovecot_auth processes in as secure a method as possible.
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42       The following process types are defined for dovecot_auth:
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46       Note: semanage permissive -a dovecot_auth_t can be  used  to  make  the
47       process type dovecot_auth_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.  dove‐
54       cot_auth policy is extremely flexible and  has  several  booleans  that
55       allow you to manipulate the policy and run dovecot_auth with the tight‐
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60       If you want to allow all domains to execute in fips_mode, you must turn
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67       If  you  want  to  allow  system  to run with NIS, you must turn on the
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MANAGED FILES

75       The SELinux process type dovecot_auth_t can manage files  labeled  with
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77       these file types.  Note the processes UID still need to have  DAC  per‐
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88            /var/log/tallylog.*
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94            /var/run/random-seed
95            /var/run/runlevel.dir
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FILE CONTEXTS

100       SELinux requires files to have an extended attribute to define the file
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103       You can see the context of a file using the -Z option to ls
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105       Policy governs the access  confined  processes  have  to  these  files.
106       SELinux  dovecot_auth  policy  is very flexible allowing users to setup
107       their dovecot_auth processes in as secure a method as possible.
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109       STANDARD FILE CONTEXT
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111       SELinux defines the file context types for  the  dovecot_auth,  if  you
112       wanted  to store files with these types in a diffent paths, you need to
113       execute the semanage command to sepecify alternate  labeling  and  then
114       use restorecon to put the labels on disk.
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116       semanage  fcontext  -a  -t dovecot_auth_tmp_t '/srv/mydovecot_auth_con‐
117       tent(/.*)?'
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120       Note: SELinux often uses regular expressions  to  specify  labels  that
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123       The following file types are defined for dovecot_auth:
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129       -  Set  files with the dovecot_auth_exec_t type, if you want to transi‐
130       tion an executable to the dovecot_auth_t domain.
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139       - Set files with the dovecot_auth_tmp_t type,  if  you  want  to  store
140       dovecot auth temporary files in the /tmp directories.
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144       Note:  File context can be temporarily modified with the chcon command.
145       If you want to permanently change the file context you need to use  the
146       semanage fcontext command.  This will modify the SELinux labeling data‐
147       base.  You will need to use restorecon to apply the labels.
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COMMANDS

151       semanage fcontext can also be used to manipulate default  file  context
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154       semanage  permissive  can  also  be used to manipulate whether or not a
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157       semanage module can also be used to enable/disable/install/remove  pol‐
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160       semanage boolean can also be used to manipulate the booleans
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163       system-config-selinux is a GUI tool available to customize SELinux pol‐
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AUTHOR

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