setfiles_selinux(8)

1setfiles_selinux(8)         SELinux Policy setfiles        setfiles_selinux(8)
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NAME

6       setfiles_selinux - Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the setfiles pro‐
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DESCRIPTION

10       Security-Enhanced Linux secures the  setfiles  processes  via  flexible
11       mandatory access control.
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13       The  setfiles  processes  execute with the setfiles_t SELinux type. You
14       can check if you have these processes running by executing the ps  com‐
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ENTRYPOINTS

24       The setfiles_t SELinux type can be entered via the setfiles_exec_t file
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27       The default entrypoint paths for the setfiles_t domain are the  follow‐
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30       /sbin/setfiles.*, /usr/sbin/setfiles.*, /sbin/restorecon, /usr/sbin/re‐
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PROCESS TYPES

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

54       SELinux policy is customizable based on least  access  required.   set‐
55       files  policy is extremely flexible and has several booleans that allow
56       you to manipulate the policy and run setfiles with the tightest  access
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61       If you want to allow system cron jobs to relabel filesystem for restor‐
62       ing file contexts, you must turn on the cron_can_relabel boolean.  Dis‐
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69       If you want to allow all domains to execute in fips_mode, you must turn
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76       If you want to enable polyinstantiated directory support, you must turn
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MANAGED FILES

84       The  SELinux  process type setfiles_t can manage files labeled with the
85       following file types.  The paths listed are the default paths for these
86       file types.  Note the processes UID still need to have DAC permissions.
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FILE CONTEXTS

98       SELinux requires files to have an extended attribute to define the file
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103       Policy governs the access  confined  processes  have  to  these  files.
104       SELinux  setfiles policy is very flexible allowing users to setup their
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107       STANDARD FILE CONTEXT
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109       SELinux defines the file context types for the setfiles, if you  wanted
110       to  store files with these types in a different paths, you need to exe‐
111       cute the semanage command to specify alternate labeling  and  then  use
112       restorecon to put the labels on disk.
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117       Note:  SELinux  often  uses  regular expressions to specify labels that
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120       The following file types are defined for setfiles:
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126       - Set files with the setfiles_exec_t type, if you want to transition an
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130       Paths:
131            /sbin/setfiles.*,      /usr/sbin/setfiles.*,     /sbin/restorecon,
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135       Note: File context can be temporarily modified with the chcon  command.
136       If  you want to permanently change the file context you need to use the
137       semanage fcontext command.  This will modify the SELinux labeling data‐
138       base.  You will need to use restorecon to apply the labels.
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COMMANDS

142       semanage  fcontext  can also be used to manipulate default file context
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145       semanage permissive can also be used to manipulate  whether  or  not  a
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148       semanage  module can also be used to enable/disable/install/remove pol‐
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151       semanage boolean can also be used to manipulate the booleans
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154       system-config-selinux is a GUI tool available to customize SELinux pol‐
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AUTHOR

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