snort_selinux(8) snort SELinux Policy documentation snort_selinux(8)NAMEsnort_selinux - Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the snort processes
DESCRIPTION
Security-Enhanced Linux secures the snort processes via flexible manda‐
tory access control.
NSSWITCH DOMAINFILE 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 snort policy is very flexible allowing users to setup their
snort processes in as secure a method as possible.
The following file types are defined for snort:
snort_etc_t
- Set files with the snort_etc_t type, if you want to store snort files
in the /etc directories.
snort_exec_t
- Set files with the snort_exec_t type, if you want to transition an
executable to the snort_t domain.
Paths:
/usr/sbin/snort-plain, /usr/s?bin/snort
snort_initrc_exec_t
- Set files with the snort_initrc_exec_t type, if you want to transi‐
tion an executable to the snort_initrc_t domain.
snort_log_t
- Set files with the snort_log_t type, if you want to treat the data as
snort log data, usually stored under the /var/log directory.
snort_tmp_t
- Set files with the snort_tmp_t type, if you want to store snort tem‐
porary files in the /tmp directories.
snort_var_run_t
- Set files with the snort_var_run_t type, if you want to store the
snort files under the /run 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
snort policy is very flexible allowing users to setup their snort pro‐
cesses in as secure a method as possible.
The following process types are defined for snort:
snort_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), snort(8), semanage(8), restorecon(8), chcon(1)dwalsh@redhat.com snort snort_selinux(8)
