NAME¶

ptal_selinux - Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the ptal processes

DESCRIPTION¶

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

The ptal processes execute with the ptal_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 ptal_t

ENTRYPOINTS¶

The ptal_t SELinux type can be entered via the ptal_exec_t file type.

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

/usr/sbin/ptal-mlcd, /usr/sbin/ptal-printd, /usr/sbin/ptal-photod

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

The following process types are defined for ptal:

ptal_t

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

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

setsebool -P daemons_dump_core 1

If you want to enable cluster mode for daemons, you must turn on the daemons_enable_cluster_mode boolean. Enabled by default.

setsebool -P daemons_enable_cluster_mode 1

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

setsebool -P daemons_use_tcp_wrapper 1

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

setsebool -P daemons_use_tty 1

If you want to deny any process from ptracing or debugging any other processes, you must turn on the deny_ptrace boolean. Enabled by default.

setsebool -P deny_ptrace 1

If you want to allow any process to mmap any file on system with attribute file_type, you must turn on the domain_can_mmap_files boolean. Enabled by default.

setsebool -P domain_can_mmap_files 1

If you want to allow all domains write to kmsg_device, while kernel is executed with systemd.log_target=kmsg parameter, you must turn on the domain_can_write_kmsg boolean. Disabled by default.

setsebool -P domain_can_write_kmsg 1

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

setsebool -P domain_fd_use 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

PORT TYPES¶

SELinux defines port types to represent TCP and UDP ports.

You can see the types associated with a port by using the following command:

semanage port -l

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

The following port types are defined for ptal:

ptal_port_t

Default Defined Ports: tcp 5703

MANAGED FILES¶

The SELinux process type ptal_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/pcsd(/.*)?
/var/lib/cluster(/.*)?
/var/lib/openais(/.*)?
/var/lib/pengine(/.*)?
/var/lib/corosync(/.*)?
/usr/lib/heartbeat(/.*)?
/var/lib/heartbeat(/.*)?
/var/lib/pacemaker(/.*)?

cluster_var_run_t

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

ptal_var_run_t

/var/run/ptal-mlcd(/.*)?
/var/run/ptal-printd(/.*)?

root_t

/sysroot/ostree/deploy/.*-atomic.*/deploy(/.*)?
/
/initrd

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

STANDARD FILE CONTEXT

SELinux defines the file context types for the ptal, 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 ptal_var_run_t '/srv/myptal_content(/.*)?'
restorecon -R -v /srv/myptal_content

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

The following file types are defined for ptal:

ptal_etc_t

- Set files with the ptal_etc_t type, if you want to store ptal files in the /etc directories.

ptal_exec_t

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

Paths:

/usr/sbin/ptal-mlcd, /usr/sbin/ptal-printd, /usr/sbin/ptal-photod

ptal_var_run_t

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

Paths:

/var/run/ptal-mlcd(/.*)?, /var/run/ptal-printd(/.*)?

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 port can also be used to manipulate the port definitions

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