rpm_selinux(8) rpm SELinux Policy documentation rpm_selinux(8)NAMErpm_selinux - Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the rpm processes
DESCRIPTION
Security-Enhanced Linux secures the rpm processes via flexible manda‐
tory access control.
NSSWITCH DOMAIN
If you want to allow users to login using a sssd serve for the
rpm_script_t, rpm_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
rpm_script_t, rpm_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 rpm_script_t, rpm_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 rpm policy is very flexible allowing users to setup their rpm
processes in as secure a method as possible.
The following file types are defined for rpm:
rpm_exec_t
- Set files with the rpm_exec_t type, if you want to transition an exe‐
cutable to the rpm_t domain.
Paths:
/usr/bin/apt-get, /usr/sbin/bcfg2, /usr/sbin/rhn_check,
/usr/bin/rpmdev-rmdevelrpms, /usr/sbin/synaptic,
/usr/share/yumex/yumex-yum-backend, /usr/bin/apt-shell,
/usr/sbin/yum-updatesd, /usr/sbin/pup, /usr/libexec/packagekitd,
/usr/libexec/yumDBUSBackend.py, /usr/sbin/pirut, /usr/bin/package-
cleanup, /usr/bin/fedora-rmdevelrpms, /bin/rpm, /usr/bin/yum,
/usr/sbin/system-install-packages, /usr/bin/zif, /usr/bin/rpm,
/usr/sbin/yum-complete-transaction, /usr/bin/smart,
/usr/sbin/packagekitd, /usr/sbin/rhnreg_ks,
/usr/share/yumex/yum_childtask.py, /usr/sbin/up2date
rpm_file_t
- Set files with the rpm_file_t type, if you want to treat the files as
rpm content.
rpm_log_t
- Set files with the rpm_log_t type, if you want to treat the data as
rpm log data, usually stored under the /var/log directory.
rpm_script_exec_t
- Set files with the rpm_script_exec_t type, if you want to transition
an executable to the rpm_script_t domain.
rpm_script_tmp_t
- Set files with the rpm_script_tmp_t type, if you want to store rpm
script temporary files in the /tmp directories.
rpm_script_tmpfs_t
- Set files with the rpm_script_tmpfs_t type, if you want to store rpm
script files on a tmpfs file system.
rpm_tmp_t
- Set files with the rpm_tmp_t type, if you want to store rpm temporary
files in the /tmp directories.
rpm_tmpfs_t
- Set files with the rpm_tmpfs_t type, if you want to store rpm files
on a tmpfs file system.
rpm_var_cache_t
- Set files with the rpm_var_cache_t type, if you want to store the
files under the /var/cache directory.
Paths:
/var/cache/PackageKit(/.*)?, /var/cache/yum(/.*)?,
/var/spool/up2date(/.*)?
rpm_var_lib_t
- Set files with the rpm_var_lib_t type, if you want to store the rpm
files under the /var/lib directory.
Paths:
/var/lib/yum(/.*)?, /var/lib/rpm(/.*)?, /var/lib/alterna‐
tives(/.*)?
rpm_var_run_t
- Set files with the rpm_var_run_t type, if you want to store the rpm
files under the /run directory.
Paths:
/var/run/PackageKit(/.*)?, /var/run/yum.*
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
rpm policy is very flexible allowing users to setup their rpm processes
in as secure a method as possible.
The following process types are defined for rpm:
rpm_t, rpm_script_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
This manual page was autogenerated by genman.py.
SEE ALSOselinux(8), rpm(8), semanage(8), restorecon(8), chcon(1)dwalsh@redhat.com rpm rpm_selinux(8)
