vdagent_selinux - Man Page

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

The vdagent processes execute with the vdagent_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 vdagent_t

The vdagent_t SELinux type can be entered via the vdagent_exec_t file type.

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

/usr/bin/spice-vdagentd

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

The following process types are defined for vdagent:

vdagent_t

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

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

The SELinux process type vdagent_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

mtrr_device_t

/dev/cpu/mtrr

root_t

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

vdagent_var_run_t

/run/spice-vdagentd(/.*)?
/run/spice-vdagentd.pid

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

EQUIVALENCE DIRECTORIES

vdagent policy stores data with multiple different file context types under the /var/log/spice-vdagentd 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/log/spice-vdagentd /srv/spice-vdagentd
restorecon -R -v /srv/spice-vdagentd

STANDARD FILE CONTEXT

SELinux defines the file context types for the vdagent, 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 vdagent_exec_t '/srv/vdagent/content(/.*)?'
restorecon -R -v /srv/myvdagent_content

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

The following file types are defined for vdagent:

vdagent_exec_t

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

vdagent_log_t

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

Paths:

/var/log/spice-vdagentd(/.*)?, /var/log/spice-vdagentd.log.*

vdagent_var_run_t

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

Paths:

/run/spice-vdagentd(/.*)?, /run/spice-vdagentd.pid

vdagentd_initrc_exec_t

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

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