1chfn_selinux(8) SELinux Policy chfn chfn_selinux(8)
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6 chfn_selinux - Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the chfn processes
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9 Security-Enhanced Linux secures the chfn processes via flexible manda‐
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12 The chfn processes execute with the chfn_t SELinux type. You can check
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23 The chfn_t SELinux type can be entered via the chfn_exec_t file type.
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25 The default entrypoint paths for the chfn_t domain are the following:
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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 chfn policy is very flexible allowing users to setup their chfn pro‐
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39 The following process types are defined for chfn:
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50 SELinux policy is customizable based on least access required. chfn
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115 STANDARD FILE CONTEXT
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117 SELinux defines the file context types for the chfn, if you wanted to
118 store files with these types in a different paths, you need to execute
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122 semanage fcontext -a -t chfn_exec_t '/srv/chfn/content(/.*)?'
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166 This manual page was auto-generated using sepolicy manpage .
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170 selinux(8), chfn(8), semanage(8), restorecon(8), chcon(1), sepolicy(8),
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