policykit_selinux(8) SELinux Policy policykit policykit_selinux(8)NAMEpolicykit_selinux - Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the policykit
processes
DESCRIPTION
Security-Enhanced Linux secures the policykit processes via flexible
mandatory access control.
The policykit processes execute with the policykit_t SELinux type. You
can check if you have these processes running by executing the ps com‐
mand with the -Z qualifier.
For example:
ps -eZ | grep policykit_t
ENTRYPOINTS
The policykit_t SELinux type can be entered via the policykit_exec_t
file type.
The default entrypoint paths for the policykit_t domain are the follow‐
ing:
/usr/libexec/polkitd.*, /usr/libexec/polkit-1/polkitd.*,
/usr/lib/polkit-1/polkitd, /usr/lib/policykit/polkitd
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
policykit policy is very flexible allowing users to setup their poli‐
cykit processes in as secure a method as possible.
The following process types are defined for policykit:
policykit_grant_t, policykit_auth_t, policykit_t, policykit_resolve_t
Note: semanage permissive -a policykit_t can be used to make the
process type policykit_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. poli‐
cykit policy is extremely flexible and has several booleans that allow
you to manipulate the policy and run policykit with the tightest access
possible.
If you want to allow users to resolve user passwd entries directly from
ldap rather then using a sssd server, you must turn on the authlo‐
gin_nsswitch_use_ldap boolean. Disabled by default.
setsebool -P authlogin_nsswitch_use_ldap 1
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 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
If you want to allow confined applications to run with kerberos, you
must turn on the kerberos_enabled boolean. Enabled by default.
setsebool -P kerberos_enabled 1
If you want to allow system to run with NIS, you must turn on the
nis_enabled boolean. Disabled by default.
setsebool -P nis_enabled 1
If you want to allow confined applications to use nscd shared memory,
you must turn on the nscd_use_shm boolean. Disabled by default.
setsebool -P nscd_use_shm 1
NSSWITCH DOMAIN
If you want to allow users to resolve user passwd entries directly from
ldap rather then using a sssd server for the policykit_grant_t, poli‐
cykit_auth_t, policykit_t, policykit_resolve_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
policykit_grant_t, policykit_auth_t, policykit_t, policykit_resolve_t,
you must turn on the kerberos_enabled boolean.
setsebool -P kerberos_enabled 1
MANAGED FILES
The SELinux process type policykit_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/cpglockd.pid
/var/run/corosync.pid
/var/run/rgmanager.pid
/var/run/cluster/rgmanager.sk
krb5_host_rcache_t
/var/cache/krb5rcache(/.*)?
/var/tmp/nfs_0
/var/tmp/DNS_25
/var/tmp/host_0
/var/tmp/imap_0
/var/tmp/HTTP_23
/var/tmp/HTTP_48
/var/tmp/ldap_55
/var/tmp/ldap_487
/var/tmp/ldapmap1_0
policykit_reload_t
/var/lib/misc/PolicyKit.reload
policykit_var_lib_t
/var/lib/polkit-1(/.*)?
/var/lib/PolicyKit(/.*)?
/var/lib/PolicyKit-public(/.*)?
policykit_var_run_t
/var/run/PolicyKit(/.*)?
root_t
/
/initrd
security_t
/selinux
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 policykit policy is very flexible allowing users to setup their
policykit processes in as secure a method as possible.
EQUIVALENCE DIRECTORIES
policykit policy stores data with multiple different file context types
under the /var/lib/PolicyKit directory. If you would like to store the
data in a different directory you can use the semanage command to cre‐
ate an equivalence mapping. If you wanted to store this data under the
/srv dirctory you would execute the following command:
semanage fcontext -a -e /var/lib/PolicyKit /srv/PolicyKit
restorecon -R -v /srv/PolicyKit
STANDARD FILE CONTEXT
SELinux defines the file context types for the policykit, 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 policykit_auth_exec_t '/srv/policykit/con‐
tent(/.*)?'
restorecon -R -v /srv/mypolicykit_content
Note: SELinux often uses regular expressions to specify labels that
match multiple files.
The following file types are defined for policykit:
policykit_auth_exec_t
- Set files with the policykit_auth_exec_t type, if you want to transi‐
tion an executable to the policykit_auth_t domain.
Paths:
/usr/bin/pkla-check-authorization, /usr/libexec/polkit-read-auth-
helper, /usr/lib/polkit-1/polkit-agent-helper-1, /usr/lib/poli‐
cykit/polkit-read-auth-helper, /usr/libexec/polkit-1/polkit-agent-
helper-1, /usr/libexec/kde4/polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1
policykit_exec_t
- Set files with the policykit_exec_t type, if you want to transition
an executable to the policykit_t domain.
Paths:
/usr/libexec/polkitd.*, /usr/libexec/polkit-1/polkitd.*,
/usr/lib/polkit-1/polkitd, /usr/lib/policykit/polkitd
policykit_grant_exec_t
- Set files with the policykit_grant_exec_t type, if you want to tran‐
sition an executable to the policykit_grant_t domain.
Paths:
/usr/libexec/polkit-grant-helper.*, /usr/lib/policykit/polkit-
grant-helper.*
policykit_reload_t
- Set files with the policykit_reload_t type, if you want to treat the
files as policykit reload data.
policykit_resolve_exec_t
- Set files with the policykit_resolve_exec_t type, if you want to
transition an executable to the policykit_resolve_t domain.
Paths:
/usr/libexec/polkit-resolve-exe-helper.*, /usr/lib/poli‐
cykit/polkit-resolve-exe-helper.*
policykit_tmp_t
- Set files with the policykit_tmp_t type, if you want to store poli‐
cykit temporary files in the /tmp directories.
policykit_var_lib_t
- Set files with the policykit_var_lib_t type, if you want to store the
policykit files under the /var/lib directory.
Paths:
/var/lib/polkit-1(/.*)?, /var/lib/PolicyKit(/.*)?, /var/lib/Poli‐
cyKit-public(/.*)?
policykit_var_run_t
- Set files with the policykit_var_run_t type, if you want to store the
policykit files under the /run or /var/run directory.
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 data‐
base. 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 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 auto-generated using sepolicy manpage .
SEE ALSOselinux(8), policykit(8), semanage(8), restorecon(8), chcon(1), sepol‐
icy(8) , setsebool(8), policykit_auth_selinux(8), poli‐
cykit_auth_selinux(8), policykit_grant_selinux(8), poli‐
cykit_grant_selinux(8), policykit_resolve_selinux(8), poli‐
cykit_resolve_selinux(8)policykit 13-11-20 policykit_selinux(8)
