logrotate_selinux(8)logrotate SELinux Policy documentationlogrotate_selinux(8)NAMElogrotate_selinux - Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the logrotate
processes
DESCRIPTION
Security-Enhanced Linux secures the logrotate processes via flexible
mandatory access control.
NSSWITCH DOMAIN
If you want to allow users to login using a sssd serve for the logro‐
tate_t, logrotate_mail_t, you must turn on the authlogin_nss‐
witch_use_ldap boolean.
setsebool -P authlogin_nsswitch_use_ldap 1
If you want to allow confined applications to run with kerberos for the
logrotate_t, logrotate_mail_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 logrotate_t, logro‐
tate_mail_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 logrotate policy is very flexible allowing users to setup their
logrotate processes in as secure a method as possible.
The following file types are defined for logrotate:
logrotate_exec_t
- Set files with the logrotate_exec_t type, if you want to transition
an executable to the logrotate_t domain.
Paths:
/usr/sbin/logrotate, /etc/cron.(daily|weekly)/sysklogd
logrotate_lock_t
- Set files with the logrotate_lock_t type, if you want to treat the
files as logrotate lock data, stored under the /var/lock directory
logrotate_mail_tmp_t
- Set files with the logrotate_mail_tmp_t type, if you want to store
logrotate mail temporary files in the /tmp directories.
logrotate_tmp_t
- Set files with the logrotate_tmp_t type, if you want to store logro‐
tate temporary files in the /tmp directories.
logrotate_var_lib_t
- Set files with the logrotate_var_lib_t type, if you want to store the
logrotate files under the /var/lib directory.
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
logrotate policy is very flexible allowing users to setup their logro‐
tate processes in as secure a method as possible.
The following process types are defined for logrotate:
logrotate_t, logrotate_mail_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), logrotate(8), semanage(8), restorecon(8), chcon(1)dwalsh@redhat.com logrotate logrotate_selinux(8)
