pppd_selinux(8) SELinux Policy pppd pppd_selinux(8)NAMEpppd_selinux - Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the pppd processes
DESCRIPTION
Security-Enhanced Linux secures the pppd processes via flexible manda‐
tory access control.
The pppd processes execute with the pppd_t SELinux type. You can check
if you have these processes running by executing the ps command with
the -Z qualifier.
For example:
ps -eZ | grep pppd_t
ENTRYPOINTS
The pppd_t SELinux type can be entered via the pppd_exec_t file type.
The default entrypoint paths for the pppd_t domain are the following:
/usr/sbin/pppd, /sbin/ppp-watch, /usr/sbin/ipppd, /sbin/pppoe-server,
/usr/sbin/ppp-watch, /usr/sbin/pppoe-server
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
pppd policy is very flexible allowing users to setup their pppd pro‐
cesses in as secure a method as possible.
The following process types are defined for pppd:
pppd_t
Note: semanage permissive -a pppd_t can be used to make the process
type pppd_t permissive. SELinux does not deny access to permissive
process types, but the AVC (SELinux denials) messages are still gener‐
ated.
BOOLEANS
SELinux policy is customizable based on least access required. pppd
policy is extremely flexible and has several booleans that allow you to
manipulate the policy and run pppd with the tightest access possible.
If you want to allow pppd to load kernel modules for certain modems,
you must turn on the pppd_can_insmod boolean. Disabled by default.
setsebool -P pppd_can_insmod 1
If you want to allow pppd to be run for a regular user, you must turn
on the pppd_for_user boolean. Disabled by default.
setsebool -P pppd_for_user 1
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 pppd_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
pppd_t, you must turn on the kerberos_enabled boolean.
setsebool -P kerberos_enabled 1
MANAGED FILES
The SELinux process type pppd_t can manage files labeled with the fol‐
lowing 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
etc_runtime_t
/[^/]+
/etc/mtab.*
/etc/blkid(/.*)?
/etc/nologin.*
/etc/.fstab.hal..+
/halt
/fastboot
/poweroff
/etc/cmtab
/forcefsck
/.autofsck
/.suspended
/fsckoptions
/.autorelabel
/etc/killpower
/etc/securetty
/etc/nohotplug
/etc/ioctl.save
/etc/fstab.REVOKE
/etc/network/ifstate
/etc/sysconfig/hwconf
/etc/ptal/ptal-printd-like
/etc/sysconfig/iptables.save
/etc/xorg.conf.d/00-system-setup-keyboard.conf
/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/00-system-setup-keyboard.conf
faillog_t
/var/log/btmp.*
/var/log/faillog.*
/var/log/tallylog.*
/var/run/faillock(/.*)?
net_conf_t
/etc/hosts[^/]*
/etc/yp.conf.*
/etc/denyhosts.*
/etc/hosts.deny.*
/etc/resolv.conf.*
/etc/sysconfig/networking(/.*)?
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts(/.*)?
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/.*resolv.conf
/etc/ethers
/etc/ntp.conf
pppd_etc_rw_t
/etc/ppp(/.*)?
/etc/ppp/peers(/.*)?
/etc/ppp/resolv.conf
pppd_lock_t
/var/lock/ppp(/.*)?
pppd_log_t
/var/log/ppp(/.*)?
/var/log/ppp-connect-errors.*
pppd_tmp_t
pppd_var_run_t
/var/run/(i)?ppp.*pid[^/]*
/var/run/ppp(/.*)?
/var/run/pppd[0-9]*.tdb
root_t
/
/initrd
wtmp_t
/var/log/wtmp.*
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 pppd policy is very flexible allowing users to setup their pppd
processes in as secure a method as possible.
EQUIVALENCE DIRECTORIES
pppd policy stores data with multiple different file context types
under the /var/log/ppp directory. If you would like to store the data
in a different directory you can use the semanage command to create 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/log/ppp /srv/ppp
restorecon -R -v /srv/ppp
pppd policy stores data with multiple different file context types
under the /var/run/ppp directory. If you would like to store the data
in a different directory you can use the semanage command to create 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/run/ppp /srv/ppp
restorecon -R -v /srv/ppp
STANDARD FILE CONTEXT
SELinux defines the file context types for the pppd, 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 pppd_etc_rw_t '/srv/pppd/content(/.*)?'
restorecon -R -v /srv/mypppd_content
Note: SELinux often uses regular expressions to specify labels that
match multiple files.
The following file types are defined for pppd:
pppd_etc_rw_t
- Set files with the pppd_etc_rw_t type, if you want to treat the files
as pppd etc read/write content.
Paths:
/etc/ppp(/.*)?, /etc/ppp/peers(/.*)?, /etc/ppp/resolv.conf
pppd_etc_t
- Set files with the pppd_etc_t type, if you want to store pppd files
in the /etc directories.
Paths:
/root/.ppprc, /etc/ppp
pppd_exec_t
- Set files with the pppd_exec_t type, if you want to transition an
executable to the pppd_t domain.
Paths:
/usr/sbin/pppd, /sbin/ppp-watch, /usr/sbin/ipppd, /sbin/pppoe-
server, /usr/sbin/ppp-watch, /usr/sbin/pppoe-server
pppd_initrc_exec_t
- Set files with the pppd_initrc_exec_t type, if you want to transition
an executable to the pppd_initrc_t domain.
Paths:
/etc/ppp/(auth|ip(v6|x)?)-(up|down), /etc/rc.d/init.d/ppp
pppd_lock_t
- Set files with the pppd_lock_t type, if you want to treat the files
as pppd lock data, stored under the /var/lock directory
pppd_log_t
- Set files with the pppd_log_t type, if you want to treat the data as
pppd log data, usually stored under the /var/log directory.
Paths:
/var/log/ppp(/.*)?, /var/log/ppp-connect-errors.*
pppd_secret_t
- Set files with the pppd_secret_t type, if you want to treat the files
as pppd se secret data.
pppd_tmp_t
- Set files with the pppd_tmp_t type, if you want to store pppd tempo‐
rary files in the /tmp directories.
pppd_unit_file_t
- Set files with the pppd_unit_file_t type, if you want to treat the
files as pppd unit content.
pppd_var_run_t
- Set files with the pppd_var_run_t type, if you want to store the pppd
files under the /run or /var/run directory.
Paths:
/var/run/(i)?ppp.*pid[^/]*, /var/run/ppp(/.*)?,
/var/run/pppd[0-9]*.tdb
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), pppd(8), semanage(8), restorecon(8), chcon(1), sepolicy(8)
, setsebool(8)pppd 13-11-20 pppd_selinux(8)
