networkmanager_selinux(8) - Linux man page

Name

NetworkManager_selinux - Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the NetworkManager processes

Description

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

The NetworkManager processes execute with the NetworkManager_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 NetworkManager_t

Entrypoints

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

/usr/s?bin/NetworkManager, /usr/s?bin/wpa_supplicant, /usr/sbin/wicd, /sbin/wpa_supplicant, /usr/sbin/nm-system-settings, /usr/sbin/NetworkManagerDispatcher

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

The following process types are defined for NetworkManager:

NetworkManager_t

Note: semanage permissive -a NetworkManager_t

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

The following file types are defined for NetworkManager:

NetworkManager_exec_t

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

NetworkManager_initrc_exec_t

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

NetworkManager_log_t

- Set files with the NetworkManager_log_t type, if you want to treat the data as NetworkManager log data, usually stored under the /var/log directory.

NetworkManager_tmp_t

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

NetworkManager_var_lib_t

- Set files with the NetworkManager_var_lib_t type, if you want to store the NetworkManager files under the /var/lib directory.

NetworkManager_var_run_t

- Set files with the NetworkManager_var_run_t type, if you want to store the NetworkManager files under the /run 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 NetworkManager_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.

NetworkManager_log_t

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

/var/log/wicd.log.*

/var/log/wpa_supplicant.*

NetworkManager_tmp_t
NetworkManager_var_lib_t

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

/etc/NetworkManager(/.*)?

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

/etc/wicd/wired-settings.conf

/etc/wicd/manager-settings.conf

/etc/wicd/wireless-settings.conf

/etc/NetworkManager/system-connections(/.*)?

NetworkManager_var_run_t

/var/run/nm-dhclient.*

/var/run/NetworkManager(/.*)?

/var/run/wpa_supplicant(/.*)?

/var/run/NetworkManager.pid

/var/run/wpa_supplicant-global

hald_log_t

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

/var/log/pm-.*.log.*

initrc_tmp_t
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(/.*)?

net_conf_t

/etc/ntpd?.conf.*

/etc/yp.conf.*

/etc/denyhosts.*

/etc/hosts.deny.*

/etc/resolv.conf.*

/etc/ntp/step-tickers.*

/etc/sysconfig/networking(/.*)?

/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts(/.*)?

/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/.*resolv.conf

/etc/hosts

/etc/ethers

pppd_var_run_t

/var/run/(i)?ppp.*pid[^/]*

/var/run/ppp(/.*)?

/var/run/pppd[0-9]*.tdb

root_t

/initrd

sysfs_t

/sys(/.*)?

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.

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.