NAMESPACE.CONF(5) Linux-PAM Manual NAMESPACE.CONF(5)NAMEnamespace.conf - the namespace configuration file
DESCRIPTION
This module allows setup of private namespaces with polyinstantiated
directories. Directories can be polyinstantiated based on user name or,
in the case of SELinux, user name, sensitivity level or complete
security context. If an executable script /etc/security/namespace.init
exists, it is used to initialize the namespace every time a new
instance directory is setup. The script receives the polyinstantiated
directory path and the instance directory path as its arguments.
The /etc/security/namespace.conf file specifies which directories are
polyinstantiated, how they are polyinstantiated, how instance
directories would be named, and any users for whom polyinstantiation
would not be performed.
When someone logs in, the file namespace.conf is scanned where each non
comment line represents one polyinstantiated directory with space
separated fields as follows:
polydir instance_prefix method list_of_uids
The first field, polydir, is the absolute pathname of the directory to
polyinstantiate. The special string $HOME in entry is replaced with
user's home directory. This field cannot be blank.
The second field, instance_prefix is the string prefix used to build
the pathname for the instantiation of <polydir>. The directory security
context, or optionally its md5sum string (32 hex characters), is
appended to the prefix to generate the final instance directory path.
This directory is created if it did not exist already, and is then bind
mounted on the <polydir> to provide an instance of <polydir> based on
the <method> column. The special string $HOME is replaced with the
user's home directory, and $USER with the username. This field cannot
be blank. The directory where polyinstantiated instances are to be
created, must exist and must have, by default, the mode of 000. The
requirement that the instance parent be of mode 000 can be overridden
with the command line option <ignore_instance_parent_mode>
The third field, method, is the method used for polyinstantiation. It
can take 3 different values; "user" for polyinstantiation based on user
name, "level" for polyinstantiation based on process MLS level and user
name, and "context" for polyinstantiation based on process security
context and user name Methods "context" and "level" are only available
with SELinux. This field cannot be blank.
The fourth field, list_of_uids, is a comma separated list of user names
for whom the polyinstantiation is not performed. If left blank,
polyinstantiation will be performed for all users.
In case of context or level polyinstantiation the SELinux context which
is used for polyinstantiation is the context used for executing a new
process as obtained by getexeccon. This context must be set by the
calling application or pam_selinux.so module. If this context is not
set the polyinstatiation will be based just on user name.
EXAMPLES
These are some example lines which might be specified in
/etc/security/namespace.conf.
# The following three lines will polyinstantiate /tmp,
# /var/tmp and user's home directories. /tmp and /var/tmp
# will be polyinstantiated based on the security level
# as well as user name, whereas home directory will be
# polyinstantiated based on the full security context and user name.
# Polyinstantiation will not be performed for user root
# and adm for directories /tmp and /var/tmp, whereas home
# directories will be polyinstantiated for all users.
#
# Note that instance directories do not have to reside inside
# the polyinstantiated directory. In the examples below,
# instances of /tmp will be created in /tmp-inst directory,
# where as instances of /var/tmp and users home directories
# will reside within the directories that are being
# polyinstantiated.
#
/tmp /tmp-inst/ level root,adm
/var/tmp /var/tmp/tmp-inst/ level root,adm
$HOME $HOME/$USER.inst/inst- context
For the <service>s you need polyinstantiation (login for example) put
the following line in /etc/pam.d/<service> as the last line for session
group:
session required pam_namespace.so [arguments]
This module also depends on pam_selinux.so setting the context.
SEE ALSOpam_namespace(8), pam.d(5), pam(8)AUTHORS
The namespace.conf manual page was written by Janak Desai
<janak@us.ibm.com>.
Linux-PAM Manual 01/09/2013 NAMESPACE.CONF(5)
