1dovecot_selinux(8) SELinux Policy dovecot dovecot_selinux(8)
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6 dovecot_selinux - Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the dovecot pro‐
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10 Security-Enhanced Linux secures the dovecot processes via flexible
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13 The dovecot processes execute with the dovecot_t SELinux type. You can
14 check if you have these processes running by executing the ps command
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19 ps -eZ | grep dovecot_t
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24 The dovecot_t SELinux type can be entered via the dovecot_exec_t file
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27 The default entrypoint paths for the dovecot_t domain are the follow‐
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30 /usr/sbin/dovecot
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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 policy is very flexible allowing users to setup their dovecot
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42 The following process types are defined for dovecot:
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44 dovecot_t, dovecot_auth_t, dovecot_deliver_t
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46 Note: semanage permissive -a dovecot_t can be used to make the process
47 type dovecot_t permissive. SELinux does not deny access to permissive
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53 SELinux policy is customizable based on least access required. dovecot
54 policy is extremely flexible and has several booleans that allow you to
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60 If you want to allow all domains to execute in fips_mode, you must turn
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63 setsebool -P fips_mode 1
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75 The SELinux process type dovecot_t can manage files labeled with the
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84 /etc/cluster(/.*)?
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86 cluster_var_lib_t
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88 /var/lib/pcsd(/.*)?
89 /var/lib/cluster(/.*)?
90 /var/lib/openais(/.*)?
91 /var/lib/pengine(/.*)?
92 /var/lib/corosync(/.*)?
93 /usr/lib/heartbeat(/.*)?
94 /var/lib/heartbeat(/.*)?
95 /var/lib/pacemaker(/.*)?
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97 cluster_var_run_t
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99 /var/run/crm(/.*)?
100 /var/run/cman_.*
101 /var/run/rsctmp(/.*)?
102 /var/run/aisexec.*
103 /var/run/heartbeat(/.*)?
104 /var/run/pcsd-ruby.socket
105 /var/run/corosync-qnetd(/.*)?
106 /var/run/corosync-qdevice(/.*)?
107 /var/run/corosync.pid
108 /var/run/cpglockd.pid
109 /var/run/rgmanager.pid
110 /var/run/cluster/rgmanager.sk
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112 data_home_t
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114 /root/.local/share(/.*)?
115 /home/[^/]+/.local/share(/.*)?
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117 dovecot_spool_t
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119 /var/spool/dovecot(/.*)?
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121 dovecot_tmp_t
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126 /var/lib/dovecot(/.*)?
127 /var/run/dovecot/login/ssl-parameters.dat
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129 dovecot_var_log_t
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131 /var/log/dovecot(/.*)?
132 /var/log/dovecot.log.*
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134 dovecot_var_run_t
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136 /var/run/dovecot(-login)?(/.*)?
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140 /home/[^/]+/.Private(/.*)?
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147 krb5_host_rcache_t
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150 /var/cache/krb5rcache(/.*)?
151 /var/tmp/nfs_0
152 /var/tmp/DNS_25
153 /var/tmp/host_0
154 /var/tmp/imap_0
155 /var/tmp/HTTP_23
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159 /var/tmp/ldapmap1_0
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163 /root/Maildir(/.*)?
164 /root/.esmtp_queue(/.*)?
165 /var/lib/arpwatch/.esmtp_queue(/.*)?
166 /home/[^/]+/.maildir(/.*)?
167 /home/[^/]+/Maildir(/.*)?
168 /home/[^/]+/.esmtp_queue(/.*)?
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172 /var/mail(/.*)?
173 /var/spool/imap(/.*)?
174 /var/spool/mail(/.*)?
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201 Policy governs the access confined processes have to these files.
202 SELinux dovecot policy is very flexible allowing users to setup their
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205 EQUIVALENCE DIRECTORIES
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208 dovecot policy stores data with multiple different file context types
209 under the /var/log/dovecot directory. If you would like to store the
210 data in a different directory you can use the semanage command to cre‐
211 ate an equivalence mapping. If you wanted to store this data under the
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214 semanage fcontext -a -e /var/log/dovecot /srv/dovecot
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217 STANDARD FILE CONTEXT
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219 SELinux defines the file context types for the dovecot, if you wanted
220 to store files with these types in a diffent paths, you need to execute
221 the semanage command to specify alternate labeling and then use re‐
222 storecon to put the labels on disk.
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224 semanage fcontext -a -t dovecot_var_run_t '/srv/mydovecot_con‐
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226 restorecon -R -v /srv/mydovecot_content
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228 Note: SELinux often uses regular expressions to specify labels that
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237 - Set files with the dovecot_auth_exec_t type, if you want to transi‐
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242 /usr/libexec/dovecot/auth, /usr/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-auth
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245 dovecot_auth_tmp_t
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247 - Set files with the dovecot_auth_tmp_t type, if you want to store
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254 - Set files with the dovecot_cert_t type, if you want to treat the
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259 /etc/pki/dovecot(/.*)?, /usr/share/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem,
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265 - Set files with the dovecot_deliver_exec_t type, if you want to tran‐
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275 - Set files with the dovecot_deliver_tmp_t type, if you want to store
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282 - Set files with the dovecot_etc_t type, if you want to store dovecot
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292 - Set files with the dovecot_exec_t type, if you want to transition an
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320 - Set files with the dovecot_spool_t type, if you want to store the
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334 - Set files with the dovecot_var_lib_t type, if you want to store the
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339 /var/lib/dovecot(/.*)?, /var/run/dovecot/login/ssl-parameters.dat
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344 - Set files with the dovecot_var_log_t type, if you want to treat the
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355 - Set files with the dovecot_var_run_t type, if you want to store the
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360 Note: File context can be temporarily modified with the chcon command.
361 If you want to permanently change the file context you need to use the
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373 semanage module can also be used to enable/disable/install/remove pol‐
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379 system-config-selinux is a GUI tool available to customize SELinux pol‐
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389 icy(8), setsebool(8), dovecot_auth_selinux(8), dovecot_auth_selinux(8),
390 dovecot_deliver_selinux(8), dovecot_deliver_selinux(8)
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