boinc_selinux(8) - Linux man page

Name

boinc_selinux - Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the boinc processes

Description

Security-Enhanced Linux secures the boinc processes via flexible mandatory access control.

The boinc processes execute with the boinc_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 boinc_t

Entrypoints

The boinc_t SELinux type can be entered via the "boinc_exec_t" file type. The default entrypoint paths for the boinc_t domain are the following:"

/usr/bin/boinc_client

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 boinc policy is very flexible allowing users to setup their boinc processes in as secure a method as possible.

The following process types are defined for boinc:

boinc_t, boinc_project_t

Note: semanage permissive -a boinc_t

can be used to make the process type boinc_t permissive. Permissive process types are not denied access by SELinux. AVC messages will still be generated.

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 boinc policy is very flexible allowing users to setup their boinc processes in as secure a method as possible.

The following file types are defined for boinc:

boinc_exec_t

- Set files with the boinc_exec_t type, if you want to transition an executable to the boinc_t domain.

boinc_initrc_exec_t

- Set files with the boinc_initrc_exec_t type, if you want to transition an executable to the boinc_initrc_t domain.

boinc_project_tmp_t

- Set files with the boinc_project_tmp_t type, if you want to store boinc project temporary files in the /tmp directories.

boinc_project_var_lib_t

- Set files with the boinc_project_var_lib_t type, if you want to store the boinc project files under the /var/lib directory.

boinc_tmp_t

- Set files with the boinc_tmp_t type, if you want to store boinc temporary files in the /tmp directories.

boinc_tmpfs_t

- Set files with the boinc_tmpfs_t type, if you want to store boinc files on a tmpfs file system.

boinc_var_lib_t

- Set files with the boinc_var_lib_t type, if you want to store the boinc files under the /var/lib 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 database. You will need to use restorecon to apply the labels.

Port Types

SELinux defines port types to represent TCP and UDP ports.

You can see the types associated with a port by using the following command:

semanage port -l

Policy governs the access confined processes have to these ports. SELinux boinc policy is very flexible allowing users to setup their boinc processes in as secure a method as possible.

The following port types are defined for boinc:

boinc_port_t
Default Defined Ports:: tcp 31416

Managed Files

The SELinux process type boinc_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.

boinc_project_var_lib_t

/var/lib/boinc/slots(/.*)?

/var/lib/boinc/projects(/.*)?

boinc_tmp_t
boinc_tmpfs_t
boinc_var_lib_t

/var/lib/boinc(/.*)?

initrc_tmp_t
mnt_t

/mnt(/[^/]*)

/mnt(/[^/]*)?

/rhev(/[^/]*)?

/media(/[^/]*)

/media(/[^/]*)?

/etc/rhgb(/.*)?

/media/.hal-.*

/net

/afs

/misc

/rhev

root_t

/initrd

tmp_t

/tmp

/usr/tmp

/var/tmp

/var/tmp/vi.recover

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 policy modules.

semanage port can also be used to manipulate the port definitions

system-config-selinux is a GUI tool available to customize SELinux policy settings.

Author

This manual page was auto-generated using sepolicy manpage by mgrepl.