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SELinux System Administration - Second Edition

By : Sven Vermeulen
Book Image

SELinux System Administration - Second Edition

By: Sven Vermeulen

Overview of this book

Do you have the crucial job of protecting your private and company systems from malicious attacks and undefined application behavior? Are you looking to secure your Linux systems with improved access controls? Look no further, intrepid administrator! This book will show you how to enhance your system’s secure state across Linux distributions, helping you keep application vulnerabilities at bay. This book covers the core SELinux concepts and shows you how to leverage SELinux to improve the protection measures of a Linux system. You will learn the SELinux fundamentals and all of SELinux’s configuration handles including conditional policies, constraints, policy types, and audit capabilities. These topics are paired with genuine examples of situations and issues you may come across as an administrator. In addition, you will learn how to further harden the virtualization offering of both libvirt (sVirt) and Docker through SELinux. By the end of the book you will know how SELinux works and how you can tune it to meet your needs.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
SELinux System Administration - Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
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Preface

D-Bus communication


The D-Bus daemon provides an inter-process communication channel between applications. Unlike the traditional IPC methods, D-Bus is a higher-level communication channel that offers more than simple signaling or memory sharing. Applications that want to chat over the D-Bus link with one of the many D-Bus compatible libraries, such as libdbus, sd-bus (part of systemd), GDBus, and QtDBus.

The D-Bus daemon is part of the systemd application suite.

Understanding D-Bus

Linux generally supports two D-Bus types: system-wide and session-specific D-Bus instances:

  • The system-wide D-Bus is the main instance used for system communication. Many services or daemons will associate themselves with the system D-Bus to allow others to communicate with them through D-Bus.

  • The session-specific D-Bus is an instance running for a particular, logged-in user. It is commonly used by graphical applications to communicate with each other within a user session.

Both D-Bus instances are provided through...