NAME¶

sysadm_su_selinux - Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the sysadm_su processes

DESCRIPTION¶

Security-Enhanced Linux secures the sysadm_su processes via flexible mandatory access control.

The sysadm_su processes execute with the sysadm_su_t SELinux type. You can check if you have these processes running by executing the ps command with the -Z qualifier.

For example:

ps -eZ | grep sysadm_su_t

ENTRYPOINTS¶

The sysadm_su_t SELinux type can be entered via the su_exec_t file type.

The default entrypoint paths for the sysadm_su_t domain are the following:

/usr/(local/)?bin/ksu, /bin/su, /usr/bin/kdesu

PROCESS TYPES¶

SELinux defines process types (domains) for each process running on the system

You can see the context of a process using the -Z option to ps

Policy governs the access confined processes have to files. SELinux sysadm_su policy is very flexible allowing users to setup their sysadm_su processes in as secure a method as possible.

The following process types are defined for sysadm_su:

sysadm_su_t, sysadm_sudo_t

Note: semanage permissive -a sysadm_su_t can be used to make the process type sysadm_su_t permissive. SELinux does not deny access to permissive process types, but the AVC (SELinux denials) messages are still generated.

BOOLEANS¶

SELinux policy is customizable based on least access required. sysadm_su policy is extremely flexible and has several booleans that allow you to manipulate the policy and run sysadm_su with the tightest access possible.

If you want to allow all domains to use other domains file descriptors, you must turn on the allow_domain_fd_use boolean. Enabled by default.

setsebool -P allow_domain_fd_use 1

If you want to allow confined applications to run with kerberos, you must turn on the allow_kerberos boolean. Enabled by default.

setsebool -P allow_kerberos 1

If you want to enable polyinstantiated directory support, you must turn on the allow_polyinstantiation boolean. Enabled by default.

setsebool -P allow_polyinstantiation 1

If you want to allow sysadm to debug or ptrace all processes, you must turn on the allow_ptrace boolean. Disabled by default.

setsebool -P allow_ptrace 1

If you want to allow system to run with NIS, you must turn on the allow_ypbind boolean. Disabled by default.

setsebool -P allow_ypbind 1

If you want to allow all domains to have the kernel load modules, you must turn on the domain_kernel_load_modules boolean. Disabled by default.

setsebool -P domain_kernel_load_modules 1

If you want to allow all domains to execute in fips_mode, you must turn on the fips_mode boolean. Enabled by default.

setsebool -P fips_mode 1

If you want to enable reading of urandom for all domains, you must turn on the global_ssp boolean. Disabled by default.

setsebool -P global_ssp 1

If you want to allow confined applications to use nscd shared memory, you must turn on the nscd_use_shm boolean. Enabled by default.

setsebool -P nscd_use_shm 1

If you want to support NFS home directories, you must turn on the use_nfs_home_dirs boolean. Disabled by default.

setsebool -P use_nfs_home_dirs 1

If you want to support SAMBA home directories, you must turn on the use_samba_home_dirs boolean. Disabled by default.

setsebool -P use_samba_home_dirs 1

MANAGED FILES¶

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

faillog_t

/var/log/btmp.*
/var/log/faillog.*
/var/log/tallylog.*
/var/run/faillock(/.*)?

initrc_tmp_t

initrc_var_run_t

/var/run/utmp
/var/run/random-seed
/var/run/runlevel.dir
/var/run/setmixer_flag

krb5_host_rcache_t

/var/cache/krb5rcache(/.*)?
/var/tmp/host_0
/var/tmp/HTTP_23

lastlog_t

/var/log/lastlog.*

mnt_t

/mnt(/[^/]*)
/mnt(/[^/]*)?
/rhev(/[^/]*)?
/media(/[^/]*)
/media(/[^/]*)?
/etc/rhgb(/.*)?
/media/.hal-.*
/net
/afs
/rhev
/misc

pcscd_var_run_t

/var/run/pcscd.events(/.*)?
/var/run/pcscd.pid
/var/run/pcscd.pub
/var/run/pcscd.comm

security_t

tmp_t

/tmp
/usr/tmp
/var/tmp
/tmp-inst
/var/tmp-inst
/var/tmp/vi.recover

wtmp_t

/var/log/wtmp.*

COMMANDS¶

semanage fcontext can also be used to manipulate default file context mappings.

semanage permissive can also be used to manipulate whether or not a process type is permissive.

semanage module can also be used to enable/disable/install/remove policy modules.

semanage boolean can also be used to manipulate the booleans

system-config-selinux is a GUI tool available to customize SELinux policy settings.

AUTHOR¶

This manual page was auto-generated using sepolicy manpage .

SEE ALSO¶

selinux(8), sysadm_su(8), semanage(8), restorecon(8), chcon(1) , setsebool(8)