mpd_selinux - Man Page

Security-Enhanced Linux secures the mpd processes via flexible mandatory access control.

The mpd processes execute with the mpd_t SELinux type. You can check if you have these processes running by executing the ps command with the -Z qualifier.

For example:

ps -eZ | grep mpd_t

The mpd_t SELinux type can be entered via the mpd_exec_t file type.

The default entrypoint paths for the mpd_t domain are the following:

/usr/bin/mpd

SELinux defines process types (domains) for each process running on the system

You can see the context of a process using the -Z option to psbP

Policy governs the access confined processes have to files. SELinux mpd policy is very flexible allowing users to setup their mpd processes in as secure a method as possible.

The following process types are defined for mpd:

mpd_t

Note: semanage permissive -a mpd_t can be used to make the process type mpd_t permissive. SELinux does not deny access to permissive process types, but the AVC (SELinux denials) messages are still generated.

SELinux policy is customizable based on least access required.  mpd policy is extremely flexible and has several booleans that allow you to manipulate the policy and run mpd with the tightest access possible.

If you want to determine whether mpd can traverse user home directories, you must turn on the mpd_enable_homedirs boolean. Disabled by default.

setsebool -P mpd_enable_homedirs 1

If you want to determine whether mpd can use cifs file systems, you must turn on the mpd_use_cifs boolean. Disabled by default.

setsebool -P mpd_use_cifs 1

If you want to determine whether mpd can use nfs file systems, you must turn on the mpd_use_nfs boolean. Disabled by default.

setsebool -P mpd_use_nfs 1

If you want to dontaudit all daemons scheduling requests (setsched, sys_nice), you must turn on the daemons_dontaudit_scheduling boolean. Enabled by default.

setsebool -P daemons_dontaudit_scheduling 1

If you want to allow all domains to execute in fips_mode, you must turn on the fips_mode boolean. Enabled by default.

setsebool -P fips_mode 1

If you want to allow system to run with NIS, you must turn on the nis_enabled boolean. Disabled by default.

setsebool -P nis_enabled 1

If you want to support NFS home directories, you must turn on the use_nfs_home_dirs boolean. Disabled by default.

setsebool -P use_nfs_home_dirs 1

If you want to support SAMBA home directories, you must turn on the use_samba_home_dirs boolean. Disabled by default.

setsebool -P use_samba_home_dirs 1

SELinux defines port types to represent TCP and UDP ports.

You can see the types associated with a port by using the following command:

semanage port -l

Policy governs the access confined processes have to these ports. SELinux mpd policy is very flexible allowing users to setup their mpd processes in as secure a method as possible.

The following port types are defined for mpd:

    mpd_port_t

Default Defined Ports: tcp 6600

The SELinux process type mpd_t can manage files labeled with the following file types.  The paths listed are the default paths for these file types.  Note the processes UID still need to have DAC permissions.

cifs_t

cluster_conf_t

/etc/cluster(/.*)?

cluster_var_lib_t

/var/lib/pcsd(/.*)?
/var/lib/cluster(/.*)?
/var/lib/openais(/.*)?
/var/lib/pengine(/.*)?
/var/lib/corosync(/.*)?
/usr/lib/heartbeat(/.*)?
/var/lib/heartbeat(/.*)?
/var/lib/pacemaker(/.*)?

cluster_var_run_t

/run/crm(/.*)?
/run/cman_.*
/run/rsctmp(/.*)?
/run/aisexec.*
/run/heartbeat(/.*)?
/run/pcsd-ruby.socket
/run/corosync-qnetd(/.*)?
/run/corosync-qdevice(/.*)?
/run/pcsd.socket
/run/corosync.pid
/run/cpglockd.pid
/run/rgmanager.pid
/run/cluster/rgmanager.sk

krb5_host_rcache_t

/var/tmp/krb5_0.rcache2
/var/cache/krb5rcache(/.*)?
/var/tmp/nfs_0
/var/tmp/DNS_25
/var/tmp/host_0
/var/tmp/imap_0
/var/tmp/HTTP_23
/var/tmp/HTTP_48
/var/tmp/ldap_55
/var/tmp/ldap_487
/var/tmp/ldapmap1_0

mpd_data_t

/var/lib/mpd/music(/.*)?
/var/lib/mpd/playlists(/.*)?

mpd_home_t

/home/[^/]+/.mpd(/.*)?

mpd_tmp_t

mpd_tmpfs_t

mpd_var_lib_t

/var/lib/mpd(/.*)?

mpd_var_run_t

/run/mpd(/.*)?

nfs_t

root_t

/sysroot/ostree/deploy/.*-atomic/deploy(/.*)?
/
/initrd

SELinux requires files to have an extended attribute to define the file type.

You can see the context of a file using the -Z option to lsbP

Policy governs the access confined processes have to these files. SELinux mpd policy is very flexible allowing users to setup their mpd processes in as secure a method as possible.

EQUIVALENCE DIRECTORIES

mpd policy stores data with multiple different file context types under the /var/lib/mpd directory.  If you would like to store the data in a different directory you can use the semanage command to create an equivalence mapping.  If you wanted to store this data under the /srv directory you would execute the following command:

semanage fcontext -a -e /var/lib/mpd /srv/mpd
restorecon -R -v /srv/mpd

STANDARD FILE CONTEXT

SELinux defines the file context types for the mpd, if you wanted to store files with these types in a different paths, you need to execute the semanage command to specify alternate labeling and then use restorecon to put the labels on disk.

semanage fcontext -a -t mpd_exec_t '/srv/mpd/content(/.*)?'
restorecon -R -v /srv/mympd_content

Note: SELinux often uses regular expressions to specify labels that match multiple files.

The following file types are defined for mpd:

mpd_data_t

- Set files with the mpd_data_t type, if you want to treat the files as mpd content.

Paths:

/var/lib/mpd/music(/.*)?, /var/lib/mpd/playlists(/.*)?

mpd_etc_t

- Set files with the mpd_etc_t type, if you want to store mpd files in the /etc directories.

mpd_exec_t

- Set files with the mpd_exec_t type, if you want to transition an executable to the mpd_t domain.

mpd_home_t

- Set files with the mpd_home_t type, if you want to store mpd files in the users home directory.

mpd_initrc_exec_t

- Set files with the mpd_initrc_exec_t type, if you want to transition an executable to the mpd_initrc_t domain.

mpd_log_t

- Set files with the mpd_log_t type, if you want to treat the data as mpd log data, usually stored under the /var/log directory.

mpd_tmp_t

- Set files with the mpd_tmp_t type, if you want to store mpd temporary files in the /tmp directories.

mpd_tmpfs_t

- Set files with the mpd_tmpfs_t type, if you want to store mpd files on a tmpfs file system.

mpd_user_data_t

- Set files with the mpd_user_data_t type, if you want to treat the files as mpd user content.

mpd_var_lib_t

- Set files with the mpd_var_lib_t type, if you want to store the mpd files under the /var/lib directory.

mpd_var_run_t

- Set files with the mpd_var_run_t type, if you want to store the mpd files under the /run or /var/run directory.

Note: File context can be temporarily modified with the chcon command.  If you want to permanently change the file context you need to use the semanage fcontext command.  This will modify the SELinux labeling database.  You will need to use restorecon to apply the labels.

semanage fcontext can also be used to manipulate default file context mappings.

semanage permissive can also be used to manipulate whether or not a process type is permissive.

semanage module can also be used to enable/disable/install/remove policy modules.

semanage port can also be used to manipulate the port definitions

semanage boolean can also be used to manipulate the booleans

system-config-selinux is a GUI tool available to customize SELinux policy settings.

This manual page was auto-generated using sepolicy manpage .

selinux(8), mpd(8), semanage(8), restorecon(8), chcon(1), sepolicy(8), setsebool(8)