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SELinux System Administration

SELinux System Administration

By : Sven Vermeulen
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SELinux System Administration

SELinux System Administration

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By: Sven Vermeulen

Overview of this book

NSA Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux) is a set of patches and added utilities to the Linux kernel to incorporate a strong, flexible, mandatory access control architecture into the major subsystems of the kernel. With its fine-grained yet flexible approach, it is no wonder Linux distributions are firing up SELinux as a default security measure. SELinux System Administration covers the majority of SELinux features through a mix of real-life scenarios, descriptions, and examples. Everything an administrator needs to further tune SELinux to suit their needs are present in this book. This book touches on various SELinux topics, guiding you through the configuration of SELinux contexts, definitions, and the assignment of SELinux roles, and finishes up with policy enhancements. All of SELinux's configuration handles, be they conditional policies, constraints, policy types, or audit capabilities, are covered in this book with genuine examples that administrators might come across. By the end, SELinux System Administration will have taught you how to configure your Linux system to be more secure, powered by a formidable mandatory access control.
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SELinux logging and auditing


When SELinux is enabled, it will log (almost) every permission check that was denied. When Linux auditing is enabled, these denials are logged by the audit daemon. If not, then the regular system logger will get the denials and store them in the system logs.

Such denial messages are described with the type AVC (Access Vector Cache) as we can see from the following example:

type=AVC msg=audit(1369306885.125:4702304): avc:  denied  { append } for  pid=1787 comm=72733A6D61696E20513A526567 name="oracle_audit.log" dev=dm-18 ino=65 scontext=system_u:system_r:syslogd_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:usr_t:s0 tclass=file

The AVC is part of the SELinux security subsystem in the Linux kernel that is responsible for checking and enforcing the SELinux rules. Any permission that needs to be checked is represented as an "access vector" and the cache is then consulted to see if that particular permission has been checked before or not. If it is, then the decision is taken from...

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