irc_selinux(8) - Linux man page

Name

irc_selinux - Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the irc processes

Description

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

The irc processes execute with the irc_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 irc_t

Entrypoints

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

/usr/bin/[st]irc, /usr/bin/ircII, /usr/bin/tinyirc

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

The following process types are defined for irc:

irc_t

Note: semanage permissive -a irc_t

can be used to make the process type irc_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 irc policy is very flexible allowing users to setup their irc processes in as secure a method as possible.

The following file types are defined for irc:

irc_exec_t

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

irc_home_t

- Set files with the irc_home_t type, if you want to store irc files in the users home directory.

irc_tmp_t

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

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

The following port types are defined for irc:

ircd_port_t
Default Defined Ports:: tcp 6667

Managed Files

The SELinux process type irc_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.

initrc_tmp_t

irc_home_t

/home/[^/]*/.ircmotd

irc_tmp_t
mnt_t

/mnt(/[^/]*)

/mnt(/[^/]*)?

/rhev(/[^/]*)?

/media(/[^/]*)

/media(/[^/]*)?

/etc/rhgb(/.*)?

/media/.hal-.*

/net

/afs

/misc

/rhev

nfs_t
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.