mplayer_selinux(8) mplayer SELinux Policy documentation mplayer_selinux(8)NAMEmplayer_selinux - Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the mplayer pro‐
cesses
DESCRIPTION
Security-Enhanced Linux secures the mplayer processes via flexible
mandatory access control.
BOOLEANS
SELinux policy is customizable based on least access required. mplayer
policy is extremely flexible and has several booleans that allow you to
manipulate the policy and run mplayer with the tightest access possi‐
ble.
If you want to allow mplayer executable stac, you must turn on the
allow_mplayer_execstack boolean.
setsebool -P allow_mplayer_execstack 1
If you want to allow video playing tools to run unconfine, you must
turn on the unconfined_mplayer boolean.
setsebool -P unconfined_mplayer 1
NSSWITCH DOMAIN
If you want to allow users to login using a sssd serve for the
mplayer_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
mplayer_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 mplayer_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 mplayer policy is very flexible allowing users to setup their
mplayer processes in as secure a method as possible.
The following file types are defined for mplayer:
mplayer_etc_t
- Set files with the mplayer_etc_t type, if you want to store mplayer
files in the /etc directories.
mplayer_exec_t
- Set files with the mplayer_exec_t type, if you want to transition an
executable to the mplayer_t domain.
Paths:
/usr/bin/vlc, /usr/bin/mplayer, /usr/bin/xine
mplayer_home_t
- Set files with the mplayer_home_t type, if you want to store mplayer
files in the users home directory.
mplayer_tmpfs_t
- Set files with the mplayer_tmpfs_t type, if you want to store mplayer
files on a tmpfs file system.
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
mplayer policy is very flexible allowing users to setup their mplayer
processes in as secure a method as possible.
The following process types are defined for mplayer:
mplayer_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.
semanage boolean can also be used to manipulate the booleans
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), mplayer(8), semanage(8), restorecon(8), chcon(1) , setse‐
bool(8)dwalsh@redhat.com mplayer mplayer_selinux(8)
