NAME¶

mencoder_selinux - Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the mencoder processes

DESCRIPTION¶

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

The mencoder processes execute with the mencoder_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 mencoder_t

ENTRYPOINTS¶

The mencoder_t SELinux type can be entered via the mencoder_exec_t file type.

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

/usr/bin/mencoder

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 mencoder policy is very flexible allowing users to setup their mencoder processes in as secure a method as possible.

The following process types are defined for mencoder:

mencoder_t

Note: semanage permissive -a mencoder_t can be used to make the process type mencoder_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. mencoder policy is extremely flexible and has several booleans that allow you to manipulate the policy and run mencoder with the tightest access possible.

If you want to deny user domains applications to map a memory region as both executable and writable, this is dangerous and the executable should be reported in bugzilla, you must turn on the deny_execmem boolean. Disabled by default.

setsebool -P deny_execmem 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 determine whether mplayer can make its stack executable, you must turn on the mplayer_execstack boolean. Disabled by default.

setsebool -P mplayer_execstack 1

If you want to allow all unconfined executables to use libraries requiring text relocation that are not labeled textrel_shlib_t, you must turn on the selinuxuser_execmod boolean. Enabled by default.

setsebool -P selinuxuser_execmod 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 mencoder_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.

cifs_t

mplayer_home_t

/home/[^/]+/.mplayer(/.*)?

nfs_t

user_home_t

/home/[^/]+/.+

user_tmp_t

/tmp/libdnf..+
/dev/shm/mono.*
/var/run/user(/.*)?
/tmp/.ICE-unix(/.*)?
/tmp/.X11-unix(/.*)?
/dev/shm/pulse-shm.*
/tmp/.X0-lock
/tmp/hsperfdata_root
/var/tmp/hsperfdata_root
/home/[^/]+/tmp
/home/[^/]+/.tmp
/tmp/gconfd-[^/]+

FILE CONTEXTS¶

SELinux requires files to have an extended attribute to define the file type.

You can see the context of a file using the -Z option to ls

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

The following file types are defined for mencoder:

mencoder_exec_t

- Set files with the mencoder_exec_t type, if you want to transition an executable to the mencoder_t domain.

Note: File context can be temporarily modified with the chcon command. If you want to permanently change the file context you need to use the semanage fcontext command. This will modify the SELinux labeling database. You will need to use restorecon to apply the labels.

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), mencoder(8), semanage(8), restorecon(8), chcon(1), sepolicy(8), setsebool(8)