ping_selinux - Man Page

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

The ping processes execute with the ping_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 ping_t

The ping_t SELinux type can be entered via the ping_exec_t file type.

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

/usr/bin/n?oping, /usr/bin/ping.*, /usr/bin/fping.*, /usr/bin/hping2, /usr/bin/send_arp, /usr/lib/heartbeat/send_arp

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 ping policy is very flexible allowing users to setup their ping processes in as secure a method as possible.

The following process types are defined for ping:

ping_t, pingd_t

Note: semanage permissive -a ping_t can be used to make the process type ping_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.  ping policy is extremely flexible and has several booleans that allow you to manipulate the policy and run ping with the tightest access possible.

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 allow confined users the ability to execute the ping and traceroute commands, you must turn on the selinuxuser_ping boolean. Enabled by default.

setsebool -P selinuxuser_ping 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 ping policy is very flexible allowing users to setup their ping processes in as secure a method as possible.

The following port types are defined for ping:

    pingd_port_t

Default Defined Ports: tcp 9125

The SELinux process type ping_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.

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

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 ping policy is very flexible allowing users to setup their ping processes in as secure a method as possible.

STANDARD FILE CONTEXT

SELinux defines the file context types for the ping, 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 ping_exec_t '/srv/ping/content(/.*)?'
restorecon -R -v /srv/myping_content

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

The following file types are defined for ping:

ping_exec_t

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

Paths:

/usr/bin/n?oping, /usr/bin/ping.*, /usr/bin/fping.*, /usr/bin/hping2, /usr/bin/send_arp, /usr/lib/heartbeat/send_arp

pingd_etc_t

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

pingd_exec_t

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

pingd_initrc_exec_t

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

pingd_modules_t

- Set files with the pingd_modules_t type, if you want to treat the files as pingd modules.

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), ping(8), semanage(8), restorecon(8), chcon(1), sepolicy(8), setsebool(8)