locate_selinux(8)

1locate_selinux(8)            SELinux Policy locate           locate_selinux(8)
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NAME

6       locate_selinux  -  Security  Enhanced  Linux Policy for the locate pro‐
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DESCRIPTION

10       Security-Enhanced Linux  secures  the  locate  processes  via  flexible
11       mandatory access control.
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13       The  locate  processes  execute with the locate_t SELinux type. You can
14       check if you have these processes running by executing the  ps  command
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17       For example:
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19       ps -eZ | grep locate_t
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ENTRYPOINTS

24       The  locate_t  SELinux  type  can be entered via the locate_exec_t file
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27       The default entrypoint paths for the locate_t domain are the following:
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29       /etc/cron.daily/[sm]locate, /usr/bin/updatedb.*
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PROCESS TYPES

32       SELinux defines process types (domains) for each process running on the
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35       You can see the context of a process using the -Z option to ps
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37       Policy  governs  the  access confined processes have to files.  SELinux
38       locate policy is very flexible allowing users  to  setup  their  locate
39       processes in as secure a method as possible.
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41       The following process types are defined for locate:
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43       locate_t
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45       Note:  semanage  permissive -a locate_t can be used to make the process
46       type locate_t permissive. SELinux does not deny  access  to  permissive
47       process  types, but the AVC (SELinux denials) messages are still gener‐
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BOOLEANS

52       SELinux policy is customizable based on least access required.   locate
53       policy is extremely flexible and has several booleans that allow you to
54       manipulate the policy and run locate with the tightest access possible.
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58       If you want to allow all domains to execute in fips_mode, you must turn
59       on the fips_mode boolean. Enabled by default.
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61       setsebool -P fips_mode 1
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65       If  you  want  to  allow  system  to run with NIS, you must turn on the
66       nis_enabled boolean. Disabled by default.
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MANAGED FILES

73       The SELinux process type locate_t can manage  files  labeled  with  the
74       following file types.  The paths listed are the default paths for these
75       file types.  Note the processes UID still need to have DAC permissions.
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77       krb5_host_rcache_t
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79            /var/tmp/krb5_0.rcache2
80            /var/cache/krb5rcache(/.*)?
81            /var/tmp/nfs_0
82            /var/tmp/DNS_25
83            /var/tmp/host_0
84            /var/tmp/imap_0
85            /var/tmp/HTTP_23
86            /var/tmp/HTTP_48
87            /var/tmp/ldap_55
88            /var/tmp/ldap_487
89            /var/tmp/ldapmap1_0
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91       locate_var_lib_t
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FILE CONTEXTS

101       SELinux requires files to have an extended attribute to define the file
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104       You can see the context of a file using the -Z option to ls
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106       Policy  governs  the  access  confined  processes  have to these files.
107       SELinux locate policy is very flexible allowing users  to  setup  their
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110       STANDARD FILE CONTEXT
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112       SELinux defines the file context types for the locate, if you wanted to
113       store files with these types in a diffent paths, you  need  to  execute
114       the  semanage  command  to  specify alternate labeling and then use re‐
115       storecon to put the labels on disk.
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117       semanage fcontext -a -t locate_var_run_t '/srv/mylocate_content(/.*)?'
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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 locate:
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129       -  Set  files with the locate_exec_t type, if you want to transition an
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133       Paths:
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139       - Set files with the locate_var_lib_t type, if you want  to  store  the
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146       -  Set  files  with the locate_var_run_t type, if you want to store the
147       locate files under the /run or /var/run directory.
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151       Note: File context can be temporarily modified with the chcon  command.
152       If  you want to permanently change the file context you need to use the
153       semanage fcontext command.  This will modify the SELinux labeling data‐
154       base.  You will need to use restorecon to apply the labels.
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COMMANDS

158       semanage  fcontext  can also be used to manipulate default file context
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161       semanage permissive can also be used to manipulate  whether  or  not  a
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164       semanage  module can also be used to enable/disable/install/remove pol‐
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167       semanage boolean can also be used to manipulate the booleans
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170       system-config-selinux is a GUI tool available to customize SELinux pol‐
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AUTHOR

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