svirt_socket_selinux - Man Page

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

The svirt_socket processes execute with the svirt_socket_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 svirt_socket_t

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

The following process types are defined for svirt_socket:

svirt_socket_t

Note: semanage permissive -a svirt_socket_t can be used to make the process type svirt_socket_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.  svirt_socket policy is extremely flexible and has several booleans that allow you to manipulate the policy and run svirt_socket 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

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

_selinux(8), svirt_selinux(8).