puppetmaster_selinux - Man Page

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

The puppetmaster processes execute with the puppetmaster_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 puppetmaster_t

The puppetmaster_t SELinux type can be entered via the puppetmaster_exec_t file type.

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

/usr/bin/puppetmasterd, /usr/bin/start-puppet-master

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

The following process types are defined for puppetmaster:

puppetmaster_t

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

If you want to allow Puppet master to use connect to MySQL and PostgreSQL database, you must turn on the puppetmaster_use_db boolean. Disabled by default.

setsebool -P puppetmaster_use_db 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

The SELinux process type puppetmaster_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.

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

puppet_log_t

/var/log/puppet(/.*)?

puppet_var_lib_t

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

puppet_var_run_t

/run/puppet(/.*)?

puppetmaster_tmp_t

root_t

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

security_t

/selinux

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

STANDARD FILE CONTEXT

SELinux defines the file context types for the puppetmaster, 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 puppetmaster_exec_t '/srv/puppetmaster/content(/.*)?'
restorecon -R -v /srv/mypuppetmaster_content

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

The following file types are defined for puppetmaster:

puppetmaster_exec_t

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

Paths:

/usr/bin/puppetmasterd, /usr/bin/start-puppet-master

puppetmaster_initrc_exec_t

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

puppetmaster_tmp_t

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

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