iptables_selinux

Section: iptables SELinux Policy documentation (8)
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NAME

iptables_selinux - Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the iptables processes

DESCRIPTION

SELinux Linux secures iptables (Policy for iptables) processes via flexible mandatory access control.

BOOLEANS

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

If you want to allow dhcpc client applications to execute iptables command, you must turn on the dhcpc_exec_iptables boolean.

setsebool -P dhcpc_exec_iptables 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 lsP Policy governs the access confined processes have to these files. SELinux iptables policy is very flexible allowing users to setup their iptables processes in as secure a method as possible.

The following file types are defined for iptables:

iptables_exec_t

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

Paths:: /sbin/ebtables-restore, /usr/sbin/ipchains.*, /usr/sbin/iptables-restore, /sbin/ipvsadm-save, /sbin/ipchains.*, /sbin/ip6?tables, /usr/sbin/iptables, /sbin/ipvsadm, /usr/sbin/iptables-multi, /sbin/ipvsadm-restore, /sbin/ebtables, /sbin/ip6?tables-multi, /sbin/ip6?tables-restore

iptables_initrc_exec_t

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

iptables_tmp_t

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

iptables_var_run_t

- Set files with the iptables_var_run_t type, if you want to store the iptables 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.

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

The following process types are defined for iptables:

iptables_t

Note: semanage permissive -a PROCESS_TYPE can be used to make a process type permissive. Permissive process types are not denied access by SELinux. AVC messages will still be generated.

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

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Time: 05:34:26 GMT, December 24, 2015