mandb_selinux(8)

1mandb_selinux(8)             SELinux Policy mandb             mandb_selinux(8)
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NAME

6       mandb_selinux - Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the mandb processes
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DESCRIPTION

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

23       The mandb_t SELinux type can be entered via the mandb_exec_t file type.
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25       The default entrypoint paths for the mandb_t domain are the following:
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27       /etc/cron.(daily|weekly)/man-db.*, /usr/bin/mandb
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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       mandb policy is very flexible allowing users to setup their mandb  pro‐
37       cesses in as secure a method as possible.
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39       The following process types are defined for mandb:
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41       mandb_t
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43       Note:  semanage  permissive  -a mandb_t can be used to make the process
44       type mandb_t permissive. SELinux does not  deny  access  to  permissive
45       process  types, but the AVC (SELinux denials) messages are still gener‐
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BOOLEANS

50       SELinux policy is customizable based on least access  required.   mandb
51       policy is extremely flexible and has several booleans that allow you to
52       manipulate the policy and run mandb with the tightest access possible.
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56       If you want to dontaudit all  daemons  scheduling  requests  (setsched,
57       sys_nice),  you  must turn on the daemons_dontaudit_scheduling boolean.
58       Enabled by default.
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60       setsebool -P daemons_dontaudit_scheduling 1
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64       If you want to allow all domains to execute in fips_mode, you must turn
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MANAGED FILES

72       The SELinux process type mandb_t can manage files labeled with the fol‐
73       lowing file types.  The paths listed are the default  paths  for  these
74       file types.  Note the processes UID still need to have DAC permissions.
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76       cluster_conf_t
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78            /etc/cluster(/.*)?
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82            /var/lib/pcsd(/.*)?
83            /var/lib/cluster(/.*)?
84            /var/lib/openais(/.*)?
85            /var/lib/pengine(/.*)?
86            /var/lib/corosync(/.*)?
87            /usr/lib/heartbeat(/.*)?
88            /var/lib/heartbeat(/.*)?
89            /var/lib/pacemaker(/.*)?
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91       cluster_var_run_t
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93            /var/run/crm(/.*)?
94            /var/run/cman_.*
95            /var/run/rsctmp(/.*)?
96            /var/run/aisexec.*
97            /var/run/heartbeat(/.*)?
98            /var/run/pcsd-ruby.socket
99            /var/run/corosync-qnetd(/.*)?
100            /var/run/corosync-qdevice(/.*)?
101            /var/run/corosync.pid
102            /var/run/cpglockd.pid
103            /var/run/rgmanager.pid
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FILE CONTEXTS

118       SELinux requires files to have an extended attribute to define the file
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121       You can see the context of a file using the -Z option to ls
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123       Policy governs the access  confined  processes  have  to  these  files.
124       SELinux  mandb  policy  is  very flexible allowing users to setup their
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127       STANDARD FILE CONTEXT
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129       SELinux defines the file context types for the mandb, if you wanted  to
130       store  files with these types in a different paths, you need to execute
131       the semanage command to specify alternate labeling  and  then  use  re‐
132       storecon to put the labels on disk.
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134       semanage fcontext -a -t mandb_exec_t '/srv/mandb/content(/.*)?'
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137       Note:  SELinux  often  uses  regular expressions to specify labels that
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146       - Set files with the mandb_cache_t type, if you want to store the files
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150       Paths:
151            /var/cache/man(/.*)?, /opt/local/share/man(/.*)?
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154       mandb_exec_t
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156       -  Set  files  with the mandb_exec_t type, if you want to transition an
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160       Paths:
161            /etc/cron.(daily|weekly)/man-db.*, /usr/bin/mandb
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164       mandb_home_t
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166       - Set files with the mandb_home_t type, if  you  want  to  store  mandb
167       files in the users home directory.
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170       Paths:
171            /root/.manpath, /home/[^/]+/.manpath
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174       mandb_lock_t
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176       -  Set files with the mandb_lock_t type, if you want to treat the files
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181       Note: File context can be temporarily modified with the chcon  command.
182       If  you want to permanently change the file context you need to use the
183       semanage fcontext command.  This will modify the SELinux labeling data‐
184       base.  You will need to use restorecon to apply the labels.
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COMMANDS

188       semanage  fcontext  can also be used to manipulate default file context
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191       semanage permissive can also be used to manipulate  whether  or  not  a
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194       semanage  module can also be used to enable/disable/install/remove pol‐
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200       system-config-selinux is a GUI tool available to customize SELinux pol‐
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AUTHOR

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