1lpr_selinux(8) SELinux Policy lpr lpr_selinux(8)
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6 lpr_selinux - Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the lpr processes
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9 Security-Enhanced Linux secures the lpr processes via flexible manda‐
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12 The lpr processes execute with the lpr_t SELinux type. You can check if
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25 The default entrypoint paths for the lpr_t domain are the following:
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27 /usr/bin/lp(.cups)?, /usr/bin/lpq(.cups)?, /usr/bin/lpr(.cups)?,
28 /usr/bin/lprm(.cups)?, /usr/sbin/lpc(.cups)?, /usr/bin/cancel(.cups)?,
29 /usr/bin/lpstat(.cups)?, /opt/gutenprint/bin(/.*)?, /opt/guten‐
30 print/sbin(/.*)?, /usr/linuxprinter/bin/l?lpr, /usr/local/linux‐
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32 /usr/sbin/lpmove, /usr/sbin/lpadmin, /usr/bin/lpoptions
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35 SELinux defines process types (domains) for each process running on the
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40 Policy governs the access confined processes have to files. SELinux
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44 The following process types are defined for lpr:
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48 Note: semanage permissive -a lpr_t can be used to make the process type
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88 /var/spool/lpd(/.*)?
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100 SELinux lpr policy is very flexible allowing users to setup their lpr
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103 STANDARD FILE CONTEXT
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105 SELinux defines the file context types for the lpr, if you wanted to
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110 semanage fcontext -a -t lpr_tmp_t '/srv/mylpr_content(/.*)?'
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132 /usr/sbin/lpinfo, /usr/sbin/lpmove, /usr/sbin/lpadmin,
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138 - Set files with the lpr_tmp_t type, if you want to store lpr temporary
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167 This manual page was auto-generated using sepolicy manpage .
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171 selinux(8), lpr(8), semanage(8), restorecon(8), chcon(1), sepolicy(8),
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