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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

Chapter 8. Working with SELinux Policies

Until now, we have been working with an existing SELinux policy by tuning our system to deal with the proper SELinux contexts and assigning the right labels to files, directories, and even network ports. In this chapter, we will:

  • Manipulate conditional SELinux policy rules through booleans

  • Learn to create new custom SELinux policy modules

  • Develop user and application domains

  • Replace existing policies with new, custom ones

We'll end the chapter with a few examples of custom policies that augment our SELinux experience and fine-tune the policy to match the security requirements that the administrator has in mind.