ping_selinux

Section: ping SELinux Policy documentation (8)
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NAME

ping_selinux - Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the ping processes

DESCRIPTION

BOOLEANS

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

If you want to control users use of ping and tracerout, you must turn on the user_ping boolean.

setsebool -P user_ping 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 ping policy is very flexible allowing users to setup their ping processes in as secure a method as possible.

The following file types are defined for ping:

ping_exec_t

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

Paths:: /usr/sbin/hping2, /usr/sbin/fping.*, /bin/ping.*, /usr/sbin/send_arp

pingd_etc_t

- Set files with the pingd_etc_t type, if you want to store pingd files in the /etc directories.

pingd_exec_t

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

pingd_initrc_exec_t

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

pingd_modules_t

- Set files with the pingd_modules_t type, if you want to treat the files as pingd modules.

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

The following port types are defined for ping:

pingd_port_t

Default Defined Ports: tcp 8021

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

The following process types are defined for ping:

ping_t, pingd_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 port can also be used to manipulate the port definitions

semanage boolean can also be used to manipulate the booleans

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

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Time: 05:34:28 GMT, December 24, 2015