update_modules_selinux – Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the update_modules processes
Description
Security-Enhanced Linux secures the update_modules processes via flexible mandatory access control. The update_modules processes execute with the update_modules_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 update_modules_t
Entrypoints
The update_modules_t SELinux type can be entered via the update_modules_exec_t file type.
The default entrypoint paths for the update_modules_t domain are the following:
/sbin/modules-update, /sbin/update-modules, /usr/sbin/modules-update, /usr/sbin/update-modules, /sbin/generate-modprobe.conf, /usr/sbin/generate-modprobe.conf
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 update_modules policy is very flexible allowing users to setup their update_modules processes in as secure a method as possible.
The following process types are defined for update_modules:
update_modules_t
Note: semanage permissive -a update_modules_t can be used to make the process type update_modules_t permissive. SELinux does not deny access to permissive process types, but the AVC (SELinux denials) messages are still generated.
Booleans
SELinux policy is customizable based on least access required. update_modules policy is extremely flexible and has several booleans that allow you to manipulate the policy and run update_modules with the tightest access possible.
If you want to allow all daemons the ability to read/write terminals, you must turn on the daemons_use_tty boolean. Disabled by default.
setsebool -P daemons_use_tty 1
If you want to deny any process from ptracing or debugging any other processes, you must turn on the deny_ptrace boolean. Enabled by default.
setsebool -P deny_ptrace 1
If you want to allow all domains to use other domains file descriptors, you must turn on the domain_fd_use boolean. Enabled by default.
setsebool -P domain_fd_use 1
If you want to allow all domains to have the kernel load modules, you must turn on the domain_kernel_load_modules boolean. Disabled by default.
setsebool -P domain_kernel_load_modules 1
If you want to allow all domains to execute in fips_mode, you must turn on the fips_mode boolean. Enabled by default.
setsebool -P fips_mode 1
If you want to enable reading of urandom for all domains, you must turn on the global_ssp boolean. Disabled by default.
setsebool -P global_ssp 1
Managed Files
The SELinux process type update_modules_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.
modules_conf_t
modules_dep_t
update_modules_tmp_t
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 update_modules policy is very flexible allowing users to setup their update_modules processes in as secure a method as possible.
STANDARD FILE CONTEXT
SELinux defines the file context types for the update_modules, if you wanted to store files with these types in a diffent paths, you need to execute the semanage command to sepecify alternate labeling and then use restorecon to put the labels on disk.
semanage fcontext -a -t update_modules_tmp_t ‘/srv/myupdate_modules_content(/.*)?’
restorecon -R -v /srv/myupdate_modules_content
Note: SELinux often uses regular expressions to specify labels that match multiple files.
The following file types are defined for update_modules:
update_modules_exec_t
– Set files with the update_modules_exec_t type, if you want to transition an executable to the update_modules_t domain.
- Paths:
- /sbin/modules-update, /sbin/update-modules, /usr/sbin/modules-update, /usr/sbin/update-modules, /sbin/generate-modprobe.conf, /usr/sbin/generate-modprobe.conf
update_modules_tmp_t
– Set files with the update_modules_tmp_t type, if you want to store update modules temporary files in the /tmp directories.
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.
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.
See Also
selinux(8), update_modules(8), semanage(8), restorecon(8), chcon(1), sepolicy(8) , setsebool(8)