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Getting started with SELinux System Administration [Video]

By : Sven Vermeulen
Book Image

Getting started with SELinux System Administration [Video]

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 course will show you how to enhance your system's secure state across Linux distributions, helping you keep application vulnerabilities at bay. This video course 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 will probably come across as an administrator.
Table of Contents (5 chapters)
Chapter 1
Fundamental SELinux Concepts
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Section 4
Defining and Distributing Policies
Enabling SELinux does not automatically start the enforcement of access. If SELinux is enabled and it cannot find a policy, it will refuse to start. Let’s see how we could deal with this situation by defining and distributing Policies. - Write an SELInux Policy - Distribute Policies through modules - Bundle modules in a Policy