NAME¶

policykit_selinux - Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the policykit processes

DESCRIPTION¶

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

The policykit processes execute with the policykit_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 policykit_t

ENTRYPOINTS¶

The policykit_t SELinux type can be entered via the policykit_exec_t file type.

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

/usr/libexec/polkitd.*, /usr/libexec/polkit-1/polkitd.*, /usr/lib/policykit/polkitd

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

The following process types are defined for policykit:

policykit_grant_t, policykit_auth_t, policykit_t, policykit_resolve_t

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

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 policykit_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

policykit_reload_t

/var/lib/misc/PolicyKit.reload

policykit_var_lib_t

/var/lib/polkit-1(/.*)?
/var/lib/PolicyKit(/.*)?
/var/lib/PolicyKit-public(/.*)?

policykit_var_run_t

/var/run/PolicyKit(/.*)?

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

EQUIVALENCE DIRECTORIES

policykit policy stores data with multiple different file context types under the /var/lib/PolicyKit 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/lib/PolicyKit /srv/PolicyKit
restorecon -R -v /srv/PolicyKit

STANDARD FILE CONTEXT

SELinux defines the file context types for the policykit, 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 policykit_var_run_t '/srv/mypolicykit_content(/.*)?'
restorecon -R -v /srv/mypolicykit_content

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

The following file types are defined for policykit:

policykit_auth_exec_t

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

Paths:

/usr/libexec/polkit-read-auth-helper, /usr/lib/policykit/polkit-read-auth-helper, /usr/libexec/polkit-1/polkit-agent-helper-1

policykit_exec_t

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

Paths:

/usr/libexec/polkitd.*, /usr/libexec/polkit-1/polkitd.*, /usr/lib/policykit/polkitd

policykit_grant_exec_t

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

Paths:

/usr/libexec/polkit-grant-helper.*, /usr/lib/policykit/polkit-grant-helper.*

policykit_reload_t

- Set files with the policykit_reload_t type, if you want to treat the files as policykit reload data.

policykit_resolve_exec_t

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

Paths:

/usr/libexec/polkit-resolve-exe-helper.*, /usr/lib/policykit/polkit-resolve-exe-helper.*

policykit_tmp_t

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

policykit_var_lib_t

- Set files with the policykit_var_lib_t type, if you want to store the policykit files under the /var/lib directory.

Paths:

/var/lib/polkit-1(/.*)?, /var/lib/PolicyKit(/.*)?, /var/lib/PolicyKit-public(/.*)?

policykit_var_run_t

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

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), policykit(8), semanage(8), restorecon(8), chcon(1) , setsebool(8), policykit_auth_selinux(8), policykit_auth_selinux(8), policykit_grant_selinux(8), policykit_grant_selinux(8), policykit_resolve_selinux(8), policykit_resolve_selinux(8)