logrotate_selinux(8) - Linux man page

Name

logrotate_selinux - Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the logrotate processes

Description

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

The logrotate processes execute with the logrotate_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 logrotate_t

Entrypoints

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

/etc/cron.(daily|weekly)/sysklogd, /usr/sbin/logrotate

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

The following process types are defined for logrotate:

logrotate_t, logrotate_mail_t

Note: semanage permissive -a logrotate_t

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

The following file types are defined for logrotate:

logrotate_exec_t

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

logrotate_lock_t

- Set files with the logrotate_lock_t type, if you want to treat the files as logrotate lock data, stored under the /var/lock directory

logrotate_mail_tmp_t

- Set files with the logrotate_mail_tmp_t type, if you want to store logrotate mail temporary files in the /tmp directories.

logrotate_tmp_t

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

logrotate_var_lib_t

- Set files with the logrotate_var_lib_t type, if you want to store the logrotate 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.

Managed Files

The SELinux process type logrotate_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.

abrt_var_cache_t

/var/cache/abrt(/.*)?

/var/spool/abrt(/.*)?

/var/cache/abrt-di(/.*)?

initrc_tmp_t
logfile

all log files

logrotate_lock_t
logrotate_tmp_t
logrotate_var_lib_t

/var/lib/logrotate.status

mnt_t

/mnt(/[^/]*)

/mnt(/[^/]*)?

/rhev(/[^/]*)?

/media(/[^/]*)

/media(/[^/]*)?

/etc/rhgb(/.*)?

/media/.hal-.*

/net

/afs

/misc

/rhev

named_cache_t

/var/named/data(/.*)?

/var/named/slaves(/.*)?

/var/named/dynamic(/.*)?

/var/named/chroot/var/tmp(/.*)?

/var/named/chroot/var/named/data(/.*)?

/var/named/chroot/var/named/slaves(/.*)?

/var/named/chroot/var/named/dynamic(/.*)?

tmp_t

/tmp

/usr/tmp

/var/tmp

/var/tmp/vi.recover

var_spool_t

/var/spool(/.*)?

varnishlog_log_t

/var/log/varnish(/.*)?

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.

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

Author

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