logwatch_selinux(8) logwatch SELinux Policy documentation logwatch_selinux(8)NAMElogwatch_selinux - Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the logwatch pro‐
cesses
DESCRIPTION
Security-Enhanced Linux secures the logwatch processes via flexible
mandatory access control.
NSSWITCH DOMAIN
If you want to allow users to login using a sssd serve for the log‐
watch_mail_t, logwatch_t, you must turn on the authlogin_nss‐
witch_use_ldap boolean.
setsebool -P authlogin_nsswitch_use_ldap 1
If you want to allow confined applications to run with kerberos for the
logwatch_mail_t, logwatch_t, you must turn on the allow_kerberos bool‐
ean.
setsebool -P allow_kerberos 1
If you want to allow system to run with NI for the logwatch_mail_t,
logwatch_t, you must turn on the allow_ypbind boolean.
setsebool -P allow_ypbind 1
FILE CONTEXTS
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 ls
Policy governs the access confined processes have to these files.
SELinux logwatch policy is very flexible allowing users to setup their
logwatch processes in as secure a method as possible.
The following file types are defined for logwatch:
logwatch_cache_t
- Set files with the logwatch_cache_t type, if you want to store the
files under the /var/cache directory.
Paths:
/var/lib/epylog(/.*)?, /var/cache/logwatch(/.*)?,
/var/lib/logcheck(/.*)?
logwatch_exec_t
- Set files with the logwatch_exec_t type, if you want to transition an
executable to the logwatch_t domain.
Paths:
/usr/sbin/logcheck, /usr/sbin/epylog, /usr/share/log‐
watch/scripts/logwatch.pl
logwatch_lock_t
- Set files with the logwatch_lock_t type, if you want to treat the
files as logwatch lock data, stored under the /var/lock directory
logwatch_mail_tmp_t
- Set files with the logwatch_mail_tmp_t type, if you want to store
logwatch mail temporary files in the /tmp directories.
logwatch_tmp_t
- Set files with the logwatch_tmp_t type, if you want to store logwatch
temporary files in the /tmp directories.
logwatch_var_run_t
- Set files with the logwatch_var_run_t type, if you want to store the
logwatch files under the /run directory.
Note: File context can be temporarily modified with the chcon command.
If you want to permanantly change the file context you need to use the
semanage fcontext command. This will modify the SELinux labeling data‐
base. You will need to use restorecon to apply the labels.
PROCESS TYPES
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 ps
Policy governs the access confined processes have to files. SELinux
logwatch policy is very flexible allowing users to setup their logwatch
processes in as secure a method as possible.
The following process types are defined for logwatch:
logwatch_t, logwatch_mail_t
Note: semanage permissive -a PROCESS_TYPE can be used to make a process
type permissive. Permissive process types are not denied access by
SELinux. AVC messages will still be generated.
COMMANDS
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 pol‐
icy modules.
system-config-selinux is a GUI tool available to customize SELinux pol‐
icy settings.
AUTHOR
This manual page was autogenerated by genman.py.
SEE ALSOselinux(8), logwatch(8), semanage(8), restorecon(8), chcon(1)dwalsh@redhat.com logwatch logwatch_selinux(8)