blktap_selinux(8)

1blktap_selinux(8)            SELinux Policy blktap           blktap_selinux(8)
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NAME

6       blktap_selinux  -  Security  Enhanced  Linux Policy for the blktap pro‐
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DESCRIPTION

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

24       The  blktap_t  SELinux  type  can be entered via the blktap_exec_t file
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27       The default entrypoint paths for the blktap_t domain are the following:
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PROCESS TYPES

32       SELinux defines process types (domains) for each process running on the
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35       You can see the context of a process using the -Z option to ps
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37       Policy  governs  the  access confined processes have to files.  SELinux
38       blktap policy is very flexible allowing users  to  setup  their  blktap
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41       The following process types are defined for blktap:
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45       Note:  semanage  permissive -a blktap_t can be used to make the process
46       type blktap_t permissive. SELinux does not deny  access  to  permissive
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BOOLEANS

52       SELinux policy is customizable based on least access required.   blktap
53       policy is extremely flexible and has several booleans that allow you to
54       manipulate the policy and run blktap with the tightest access possible.
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58       If you want to allow all domains to execute in fips_mode, you must turn
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65       If  you  want  to allow xend to run blktapctrl/tapdisk. Not required if
66       using dedicated logical volumes for disk images, you must turn  on  the
67       xend_run_blktap boolean. Enabled by default.
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FILE CONTEXTS

74       SELinux requires files to have an extended attribute to define the file
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77       You can see the context of a file using the -Z option to ls
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79       Policy governs the access  confined  processes  have  to  these  files.
80       SELinux  blktap  policy  is very flexible allowing users to setup their
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83       STANDARD FILE CONTEXT
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85       SELinux defines the file context types for the blktap, if you wanted to
86       store  files with these types in a different paths, you need to execute
87       the semanage command to specify alternate labeling  and  then  use  re‐
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93       Note:  SELinux  often  uses  regular expressions to specify labels that
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102       - Set files with the blktap_exec_t type, if you want to  transition  an
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112       -  Set  files  with the blktap_var_run_t type, if you want to store the
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117       Note: File context can be temporarily modified with the chcon  command.
118       If  you want to permanently change the file context you need to use the
119       semanage fcontext command.  This will modify the SELinux labeling data‐
120       base.  You will need to use restorecon to apply the labels.
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COMMANDS

124       semanage  fcontext  can also be used to manipulate default file context
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127       semanage permissive can also be used to manipulate  whether  or  not  a
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130       semanage  module can also be used to enable/disable/install/remove pol‐
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133       semanage boolean can also be used to manipulate the booleans
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136       system-config-selinux is a GUI tool available to customize SELinux pol‐
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AUTHOR

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