ypbind_selinux(8) - Linux man page

Name

ypbind_selinux - Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the ypbind processes

Description

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

The ypbind processes execute with the ypbind_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 ypbind_t

Entrypoints

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

/sbin/ypbind, /usr/sbin/ypbind

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

The following process types are defined for ypbind:

ypbind_t

Note: semanage permissive -a ypbind_t

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

Booleans

SELinux policy is customizable based on least access required. ypbind policy is extremely flexible and has several booleans that allow you to manipulate the policy and run ypbind with the tightest access possible.

If you want to allow system to run with NIS, you must turn on the allow_ypbind boolean.

setsebool -P allow_ypbind 1

If you want to allow system to run with NIS, you must turn on the allow_ypbind boolean.

setsebool -P allow_ypbind 1

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

The following file types are defined for ypbind:

ypbind_exec_t

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

ypbind_initrc_exec_t

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

ypbind_tmp_t

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

ypbind_var_run_t

- Set files with the ypbind_var_run_t type, if you want to store the ypbind 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 ypbind_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

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

var_yp_t

/var/yp(/.*)?

ypbind_tmp_t
ypbind_var_run_t

/var/run/ypbind.*

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 boolean can also be used to manipulate the booleans

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.