NetworkManager_selNetworkManager SELinux Policy documNetworkManager_selinux(8)NAMENetworkManager_selinux - Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the Net‐
workManager processes
DESCRIPTION
Security-Enhanced Linux secures the NetworkManager processes via flexi‐
ble mandatory access control.
NSSWITCH DOMAIN
If you want to allow users to login using a sssd serve for the Network‐
Manager_t, you must turn on the authlogin_nsswitch_use_ldap boolean.
setsebool -P authlogin_nsswitch_use_ldap 1
If you want to allow confined applications to run with kerberos for the
NetworkManager_t, you must turn on the allow_kerberos boolean.
setsebool -P allow_kerberos 1
If you want to allow system to run with NI for the NetworkManager_t,
you must turn on the allow_ypbind boolean.
setsebool -P allow_ypbind 1
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 NetworkManager policy is very flexible allowing users to setup
their NetworkManager processes in as secure a method as possible.
The following file types are defined for NetworkManager:
NetworkManager_etc_rw_t
- Set files with the NetworkManager_etc_rw_t type, if you want to treat
the files as NetworkManager etc read/write content.
Paths:
/etc/NetworkManager/system-connections(/.*)?, /etc/NetworkMan‐
ager/NetworkManager.conf
NetworkManager_etc_t
- Set files with the NetworkManager_etc_t type, if you want to store
NetworkManager files in the /etc directories.
NetworkManager_exec_t
- Set files with the NetworkManager_exec_t type, if you want to transi‐
tion an executable to the NetworkManager_t domain.
Paths:
/usr/s?bin/wpa_supplicant, /usr/sbin/wpa_supplicant,
/sbin/wpa_supplicant, /usr/sbin/nm-system-settings,
/usr/sbin/wicd, /usr/s?bin/NetworkManager, /usr/sbin/NetworkMan‐
agerDispatcher
NetworkManager_initrc_exec_t
- Set files with the NetworkManager_initrc_exec_t type, if you want to
transition an executable to the NetworkManager_initrc_t domain.
Paths:
/etc/rc.d/init.d/wicd, /etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d(/.*)?,
/usr/libexec/nm-dispatcher.action
NetworkManager_log_t
- Set files with the NetworkManager_log_t type, if you want to treat
the data as NetworkManager log data, usually stored under the /var/log
directory.
Paths:
/var/log/wpa_supplicant.*, /var/log/wicd.*
NetworkManager_tmp_t
- Set files with the NetworkManager_tmp_t type, if you want to store
NetworkManager temporary files in the /tmp directories.
NetworkManager_unit_file_t
- Set files with the NetworkManager_unit_file_t type, if you want to
treat the files as NetworkManager unit content.
NetworkManager_var_lib_t
- Set files with the NetworkManager_var_lib_t type, if you want to
store the NetworkManager files under the /var/lib directory.
Paths:
/etc/wicd/wired-settings.conf, /var/lib/wicd(/.*)?,
/etc/dhcp/wired-settings.conf, /etc/dhcp/wireless-settings.conf,
/etc/wicd/manager-settings.conf, /etc/dhcp/manager-settings.conf,
/etc/wicd/wireless-settings.conf, /var/lib/NetworkManager(/.*)?
NetworkManager_var_run_t
- Set files with the NetworkManager_var_run_t type, if you want to
store the NetworkManager files under the /run directory.
Paths:
/var/run/nm-dhclient.*, /var/run/wpa_supplicant(/.*)?,
/var/run/NetworkManager.pid, /var/run/wpa_supplicant-global,
/var/run/nm-dns-dnsmasq.conf, /var/run/NetworkManager(/.*)?
Note: File context can be temporarily modified with the chcon command.
If you want to permanantly change the file context you need to use the
semanage fcontext command. This will modify the SELinux labeling data‐
base. You will need to use restorecon to apply the labels.
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
NetworkManager policy is very flexible allowing users to setup their
NetworkManager processes in as secure a method as possible.
The following process types are defined for NetworkManager:
NetworkManager_t
Note: semanage permissive -a PROCESS_TYPE can be used to make a process
type permissive. Permissive process types are not denied access by
SELinux. AVC messages will still be generated.
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 pol‐
icy modules.
system-config-selinux is a GUI tool available to customize SELinux pol‐
icy settings.
AUTHOR
This manual page was autogenerated by genman.py.
SEE ALSOselinux(8), NetworkManager(8), semanage(8), restorecon(8), chcon(1)dwalsh@redhat.com NetworkManager NetworkManager_selinux(8)
