udev_selinux(8)

1udev_selinux(8)               SELinux Policy udev              udev_selinux(8)
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NAME

6       udev_selinux - Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the udev processes
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DESCRIPTION

9       Security-Enhanced  Linux secures the udev processes via flexible manda‐
10       tory access control.
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12       The udev processes execute with the udev_t SELinux type. You can  check
13       if  you  have  these processes running by executing the ps command with
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16       For example:
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18       ps -eZ | grep udev_t
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ENTRYPOINTS

23       The udev_t SELinux type can  be  entered  via  the  udev_helper_exec_t,
24       udev_exec_t file types.
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26       The default entrypoint paths for the udev_t domain are the following:
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28       /etc/dev.d/.+,   /etc/udev/scripts/.+,   /etc/hotplug.d/default/udev.*,
29       /sbin/udev, /sbin/udevd, /bin/udevadm,  /sbin/udevadm,  /sbin/udevsend,
30       /usr/sbin/udev,   /lib/udev/udevd,   /sbin/udevstart,  /usr/sbin/udevd,
31       /sbin/start_udev, /usr/bin/udevadm,  /usr/bin/udevinfo,  /usr/sbin/ude‐
32       vadm,   /lib/udev/udev-acl,   /usr/sbin/udevsend,  /usr/lib/udev/udevd,
33       /usr/sbin/udevstart,    /sbin/wait_for_sysfs,     /usr/sbin/start_udev,
34       /usr/lib/udev/udev-acl, /usr/sbin/wait_for_sysfs, /usr/lib/systemd/sys‐
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PROCESS TYPES

38       SELinux defines process types (domains) for each process running on the
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41       You can see the context of a process using the -Z option to ps
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43       Policy  governs  the  access confined processes have to files.  SELinux
44       udev policy is very flexible allowing users to setup  their  udev  pro‐
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47       The following process types are defined for udev:
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51       Note:  semanage  permissive  -a  udev_t can be used to make the process
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BOOLEANS

58       SELinux policy is customizable based on least  access  required.   udev
59       policy is extremely flexible and has several booleans that allow you to
60       manipulate the policy and run udev with the tightest access possible.
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64       If you want to control the ability to mmap a low area  of  the  address
65       space,  as  configured  by /proc/sys/vm/mmap_min_addr, you must turn on
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72       If you want to disable kernel module loading,  you  must  turn  on  the
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79       If  you  want to allow unconfined executables to make their heap memory
80       executable.  Doing this is a really  bad  idea.  Probably  indicates  a
81       badly  coded  executable, but could indicate an attack. This executable
82       should  be  reported  in  bugzilla,  you  must  turn  on   the   selin‐
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90       cutable.  This should never, ever be necessary.  Probably  indicates  a
91       badly  coded  executable, but could indicate an attack. This executable
92       should be reported in bugzilla, you must turn on the  selinuxuser_exec‐
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MANAGED FILES

100       The  SELinux process type udev_t can manage files labeled with the fol‐
101       lowing file types.  The paths listed are the default  paths  for  these
102       file types.  Note the processes UID still need to have DAC permissions.
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FILE CONTEXTS

110       SELinux requires files to have an extended attribute to define the file
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115       Policy governs the access  confined  processes  have  to  these  files.
116       SELinux udev policy is very flexible allowing users to setup their udev
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119       STANDARD FILE CONTEXT
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121       SELinux defines the file context types for the udev, if you  wanted  to
122       store  files  with  these types in a diffent paths, you need to execute
123       the semanage command  to  sepecify  alternate  labeling  and  then  use
124       restorecon to put the labels on disk.
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129       Note:  SELinux  often  uses  regular expressions to specify labels that
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132       The following file types are defined for udev:
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138       - Set files with the udev_etc_t type, if you want to store  udev  files
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145       -  Set  files  with  the udev_exec_t type, if you want to transition an
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150            /sbin/udev, /sbin/udevd, /bin/udevadm,  /sbin/udevadm,  /sbin/ude‐
151            vsend,     /usr/sbin/udev,    /lib/udev/udevd,    /sbin/udevstart,
152            /usr/sbin/udevd,        /sbin/start_udev,        /usr/bin/udevadm,
153            /usr/bin/udevinfo,      /usr/sbin/udevadm,     /lib/udev/udev-acl,
154            /usr/sbin/udevsend,   /usr/lib/udev/udevd,    /usr/sbin/udevstart,
155            /sbin/wait_for_sysfs,   /usr/sbin/start_udev,  /usr/lib/udev/udev-
156            acl, /usr/sbin/wait_for_sysfs, /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-udevd
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161       - Set files with the udev_helper_exec_t type, if you want to transition
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171       -  Set files with the udev_rules_t type, if you want to treat the files
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178       - Set files with the udev_tmp_t type, if you want to store udev  tempo‐
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185       - Set files with the udev_var_run_t type, if you want to store the udev
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190            /dev/.udev(/.*)?,   /var/run/udev(/.*)?,   /var/run/libgpod(/.*)?,
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194       Note:  File context can be temporarily modified with the chcon command.
195       If you want to permanently change the file context you need to use  the
196       semanage fcontext command.  This will modify the SELinux labeling data‐
197       base.  You will need to use restorecon to apply the labels.
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COMMANDS

201       semanage fcontext can also be used to manipulate default  file  context
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207       semanage module can also be used to enable/disable/install/remove  pol‐
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213       system-config-selinux is a GUI tool available to customize SELinux pol‐
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AUTHOR

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