NAME¶

named_selinux - Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the named processes

DESCRIPTION¶

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

The named processes execute with the named_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 named_t

ENTRYPOINTS¶

The named_t SELinux type can be entered via the named_exec_t, named_checkconf_exec_t file types.

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

/usr/sbin/named, /usr/sbin/lwresd, /usr/sbin/unbound, /usr/sbin/named-sdb, /usr/sbin/named-checkconf

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

The following process types are defined for named:

named_t

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

If you want to allow BIND to bind apache port, you must turn on the named_bind_http_port boolean. Disabled by default.

setsebool -P named_bind_http_port 1

If you want to allow BIND to write the master zone files. Generally this is used for dynamic DNS or zone transfers, you must turn on the named_write_master_zones boolean. Disabled by default.

setsebool -P named_write_master_zones 1

If you want to allow all daemons to write corefiles to /, you must turn on the allow_daemons_dump_core boolean. Disabled by default.

setsebool -P allow_daemons_dump_core 1

If you want to allow all daemons to use tcp wrappers, you must turn on the allow_daemons_use_tcp_wrapper boolean. Disabled by default.

setsebool -P allow_daemons_use_tcp_wrapper 1

If you want to allow all daemons the ability to read/write terminals, you must turn on the allow_daemons_use_tty boolean. Disabled by default.

setsebool -P allow_daemons_use_tty 1

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 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 enable cluster mode for daemons, you must turn on the daemons_enable_cluster_mode boolean. Disabled by default.

setsebool -P daemons_enable_cluster_mode 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 enable support for upstart as the init program, you must turn on the init_upstart boolean. Enabled by default.

setsebool -P init_upstart 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

MANAGED FILES¶

The SELinux process type named_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.

cluster_conf_t

/etc/cluster(/.*)?

cluster_var_lib_t

/var/lib(64)?/openais(/.*)?
/var/lib(64)?/pengine(/.*)?
/var/lib(64)?/corosync(/.*)?
/usr/lib(64)?/heartbeat(/.*)?
/var/lib(64)?/heartbeat(/.*)?
/var/lib(64)?/pacemaker(/.*)?
/var/lib/cluster(/.*)?

cluster_var_run_t

/var/run/crm(/.*)?
/var/run/cman_.*
/var/run/rsctmp(/.*)?
/var/run/aisexec.*
/var/run/heartbeat(/.*)?
/var/run/cpglockd.pid
/var/run/corosync.pid
/var/run/rgmanager.pid
/var/run/cluster/rgmanager.sk

initrc_tmp_t

mnt_t

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

named_cache_t

/var/named/data(/.*)?
/var/lib/unbound(/.*)?
/var/named/slaves(/.*)?
/var/named/dynamic(/.*)?
/var/named/chroot/var/tmp(/.*)?
/var/named/chroot/var/named/data(/.*)?
/var/named/chroot/var/named/slaves(/.*)?
/var/named/chroot/var/named/dynamic(/.*)?

named_log_t

/var/log/named.*
/var/named/chroot/var/log/named.*

named_tmp_t

/var/tmp/DNS_25

named_var_run_t

/var/run/bind(/.*)?
/var/run/named(/.*)?
/var/run/unbound(/.*)?
/var/named/chroot/var/run/named.*
/var/run/ndc

named_zone_t

/var/named(/.*)?
/var/named/chroot/var/named(/.*)?

root_t

/
/initrd

tmp_t

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

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

EQUIVALENCE DIRECTORIES

named policy stores data with multiple different file context types under the /var/named directory. If you would like to store the data in a different directory you can use the semanage command to create an equivalence mapping. If you wanted to store this data under the /srv dirctory you would execute the following command:

semanage fcontext -a -e /var/named /srv/named
restorecon -R -v /srv/named

STANDARD FILE CONTEXT

SELinux defines the file context types for the named, if you wanted to store files with these types in a diffent paths, you need to execute the semanage command to sepecify alternate labeling and then use restorecon to put the labels on disk.

semanage fcontext -a -t named_zone_t '/srv/mynamed_content(/.*)?'
restorecon -R -v /srv/mynamed_content

Note: SELinux often uses regular expressions to specify labels that match multiple files.

The following file types are defined for named:

named_cache_t

- Set files with the named_cache_t type, if you want to store the files under the /var/cache directory.

Paths:

/var/named/data(/.*)?, /var/lib/unbound(/.*)?, /var/named/slaves(/.*)?, /var/named/dynamic(/.*)?, /var/named/chroot/var/tmp(/.*)?, /var/named/chroot/var/named/data(/.*)?, /var/named/chroot/var/named/slaves(/.*)?, /var/named/chroot/var/named/dynamic(/.*)?

named_checkconf_exec_t

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

named_conf_t

- Set files with the named_conf_t type, if you want to treat the files as named configuration data, usually stored under the /etc directory.

Paths:

/etc/rndc.*, /etc/unbound(/.*)?, /var/named/chroot(/.*)?, /etc/named.rfc1912.zones, /var/named/chroot/etc/named.rfc1912.zones, /etc/named.conf, /var/named/named.ca, /etc/named.root.hints, /var/named/chroot/etc/named.conf, /etc/named.caching-nameserver.conf, /var/named/chroot/var/named/named.ca, /var/named/chroot/etc/named.root.hints, /var/named/chroot/etc/named.caching-nameserver.conf

named_exec_t

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

Paths:

/usr/sbin/named, /usr/sbin/lwresd, /usr/sbin/unbound, /usr/sbin/named-sdb

named_initrc_exec_t

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

Paths:

/etc/rc.d/init.d/named, /etc/rc.d/init.d/unbound, /etc/rc.d/init.d/named-sdb

named_keytab_t

- Set files with the named_keytab_t type, if you want to treat the files as kerberos keytab files.

named_log_t

- Set files with the named_log_t type, if you want to treat the data as named log data, usually stored under the /var/log directory.

Paths:

/var/log/named.*, /var/named/chroot/var/log/named.*

named_tmp_t

- Set files with the named_tmp_t type, if you want to store named temporary files in the /tmp directories.

named_var_run_t

- Set files with the named_var_run_t type, if you want to store the named files under the /run or /var/run directory.

Paths:

/var/run/bind(/.*)?, /var/run/named(/.*)?, /var/run/unbound(/.*)?, /var/named/chroot/var/run/named.*, /var/run/ndc

named_zone_t

- Set files with the named_zone_t type, if you want to treat the files as named zone data.

Paths:

/var/named(/.*)?, /var/named/chroot/var/named(/.*)?

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), named(8), semanage(8), restorecon(8), chcon(1) , setsebool(8)