ssh_selinux(8)

1ssh_selinux(8)                SELinux Policy ssh                ssh_selinux(8)
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NAME

6       ssh_selinux - Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the ssh processes
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DESCRIPTION

9       Security-Enhanced  Linux  secures the ssh processes via flexible manda‐
10       tory access control.
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12       The ssh processes execute with the ssh_t SELinux type. You can check if
13       you  have  these processes running by executing the ps command with the
14       -Z qualifier.
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ENTRYPOINTS

23       The ssh_t SELinux type can be entered via the ssh_exec_t file type.
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25       The default entrypoint paths for the ssh_t domain are the following:
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27       /usr/bin/ssh, /usr/libexec/nm-ssh-service
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PROCESS TYPES

30       SELinux defines process types (domains) for each process running on the
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33       You can see the context of a process using the -Z option to ps
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35       Policy  governs  the  access confined processes have to files.  SELinux
36       ssh policy is very flexible allowing users to setup their ssh processes
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39       The following process types are defined for ssh:
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41       sshd_t, sshd_sandbox_t, sshd_net_t, ssh_keygen_t, sshd_keygen_t, ssh_t, ssh_keysign_t
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43       Note: semanage permissive -a ssh_t can be used to make the process type
44       ssh_t permissive. SELinux does not deny access  to  permissive  process
45       types, but the AVC (SELinux denials) messages are still generated.
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BOOLEANS

49       SELinux  policy  is  customizable  based on least access required.  ssh
50       policy is extremely flexible and has several booleans that allow you to
51       manipulate the policy and run ssh with the tightest access possible.
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55       If  you  want  to allow host key based authentication, you must turn on
56       the ssh_keysign boolean. Disabled by default.
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58       setsebool -P ssh_keysign 1
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62       If you want to allow all domains to execute in fips_mode, you must turn
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69       If  you  want to allow regular users direct dri device access, you must
70       turn on the selinuxuser_direct_dri_enabled boolean. Enabled by default.
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76       If you want to allow users to run TCP servers (bind to ports and accept
77       connection  from  the  same  domain  and outside users)  disabling this
78       forces FTP passive mode and may change other protocols, you  must  turn
79       on the selinuxuser_tcp_server boolean. Disabled by default.
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85       If  you  want  to allows clients to write to the X server shared memory
86       segments, you must turn on the xserver_clients_write_xshm boolean. Dis‐
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PORT TYPES

94       SELinux defines port types to represent TCP and UDP ports.
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102       Policy governs the access  confined  processes  have  to  these  ports.
103       SELinux  ssh  policy is very flexible allowing users to setup their ssh
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106       The following port types are defined for ssh:
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MANAGED FILES

117       The SELinux process type ssh_t can manage files labeled with  the  fol‐
118       lowing  file  types.   The paths listed are the default paths for these
119       file types.  Note the processes UID still need to have DAC permissions.
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121       cifs_t
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126            /home/[^/]+/.Private(/.*)?
127            /home/[^/]+/.ecryptfs(/.*)?
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135            /var/tmp/krb5_0.rcache2
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137            /var/tmp/nfs_0
138            /var/tmp/DNS_25
139            /var/tmp/host_0
140            /var/tmp/imap_0
141            /var/tmp/HTTP_23
142            /var/tmp/HTTP_48
143            /var/tmp/ldap_55
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FILE CONTEXTS

159       SELinux requires files to have an extended attribute to define the file
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162       You can see the context of a file using the -Z option to ls
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164       Policy  governs  the  access  confined  processes  have to these files.
165       SELinux ssh policy is very flexible allowing users to setup  their  ssh
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168       STANDARD FILE CONTEXT
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170       SELinux  defines  the  file context types for the ssh, if you wanted to
171       store files with these types in a diffent paths, you  need  to  execute
172       the  semanage  command  to  specify alternate labeling and then use re‐
173       storecon to put the labels on disk.
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175       semanage fcontext -a -t ssh_home_t '/srv/myssh_content(/.*)?'
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178       Note: SELinux often uses regular expressions  to  specify  labels  that
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187       -  Set  files with the ssh_agent_exec_t type, if you want to transition
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194       - Set files with the ssh_agent_tmp_t type, if you  want  to  store  ssh
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201       - Set files with the ssh_exec_t type, if you want to transition an exe‐
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211       - Set files with the ssh_home_t type, if you want to store ssh files in
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216            /var/lib/[^/]+/.ssh(/.*)?,                       /root/.ssh(/.*)?,
217            /var/lib/one/.ssh(/.*)?, /var/lib/pgsql/.ssh(/.*)?, /var/lib/open‐
218            shift/[^/]+/.ssh(/.*)?,                /var/lib/amanda/.ssh(/.*)?,
219            /var/lib/stickshift/[^/]+/.ssh(/.*)?,               /var/lib/gito‐
220            lite/.ssh(/.*)?,    /var/lib/nocpulse/.ssh(/.*)?,   /var/lib/gito‐
221            lite3/.ssh(/.*)?,        /var/lib/openshift/gear/[^/]+/.ssh(/.*)?,
222            /root/.shosts, /home/[^/]+/.ssh(/.*)?, /home/[^/]+/.ansible/cp/.*,
223            /home/[^/]+/.shosts
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228       - Set files with the ssh_keygen_exec_t type, if you want to  transition
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235       -  Set  files  with the ssh_keygen_tmp_t type, if you want to store ssh
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242       - Set files with the ssh_keysign_exec_t type, if you want to transition
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252       -  Set  files with the ssh_tmpfs_t type, if you want to store ssh files
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259       - Set files with the sshd_exec_t type, if you want to transition an ex‐
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269       - Set files with the sshd_initrc_exec_t type, if you want to transition
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281            /etc/ssh/ssh_host.*_key,              /etc/ssh/ssh_host.*_key.pub,
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297       - Set files with the sshd_keygen_unit_file_t type, if you want to treat
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304       - Set files with the sshd_keytab_t type, if you want to treat the files
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311       - Set files with the sshd_tmpfs_t type, if you want to store sshd files
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318       - Set files with the sshd_unit_file_t type, if you want  to  treat  the
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325       - Set files with the sshd_var_run_t type, if you want to store the sshd
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333       Note: File context can be temporarily modified with the chcon  command.
334       If  you want to permanently change the file context you need to use the
335       semanage fcontext command.  This will modify the SELinux labeling data‐
336       base.  You will need to use restorecon to apply the labels.
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COMMANDS

340       semanage  fcontext  can also be used to manipulate default file context
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343       semanage permissive can also be used to manipulate  whether  or  not  a
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346       semanage  module can also be used to enable/disable/install/remove pol‐
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349       semanage port can also be used to manipulate the port definitions
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351       semanage boolean can also be used to manipulate the booleans
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354       system-config-selinux is a GUI tool available to customize SELinux pol‐
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AUTHOR

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