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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

The system daemon (systemd)


Systemd is a core component of many Linux distributions. Since its birth in 2010, systemd has gradually been adopted as the core init system, responsible for handling services and boot-up operations.

Throughout its development phase, several other components have been added to the systemd portfolio:

  • D-Bus has been merged with systemd and offers a system and session bus service, allowing the use of D-Bus for inter-application communication

  • Udev has been merged with systemd as well, offering a flexible device-node management application

  • Login capabilities have been added to systemd, enabling fine-grained control over user sessions

  • The journald daemon has been added to provide a new approach to system and service logging, replacing some of the functionality of standard system loggers

  • The timerd daemon provides support for the time-based execution of tasks, replacing some of the functionality of standard cron daemons

  • Network configurations can be managed by systemd-networkd...