gpm_selinux(8) gpm SELinux Policy documentation gpm_selinux(8)NAMEgpm_selinux - Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the gpm processes
DESCRIPTION
Security-Enhanced Linux secures the gpm processes via flexible manda‐
tory access control.
NSSWITCH DOMAINFILE 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 gpm policy is very flexible allowing users to setup their gpm
processes in as secure a method as possible.
The following file types are defined for gpm:
gpm_conf_t
- Set files with the gpm_conf_t type, if you want to treat the files as
gpm configuration data, usually stored under the /etc directory.
gpm_exec_t
- Set files with the gpm_exec_t type, if you want to transition an exe‐
cutable to the gpm_t domain.
gpm_tmp_t
- Set files with the gpm_tmp_t type, if you want to store gpm temporary
files in the /tmp directories.
gpm_var_run_t
- Set files with the gpm_var_run_t type, if you want to store the gpm
files under the /run directory.
gpmctl_t
- Set files with the gpmctl_t type, if you want to treat the files as
gpmctl data.
Paths:
/dev/gpmctl, /dev/gpmdata
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
gpm policy is very flexible allowing users to setup their gpm processes
in as secure a method as possible.
The following process types are defined for gpm:
gpm_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
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SEE ALSOselinux(8), gpm(8), semanage(8), restorecon(8), chcon(1)dwalsh@redhat.com gpm gpm_selinux(8)