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postfix_local_selinux

Section: postfix_local SELinux Policy documentation (8)
Updated: postfix_local
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NAME

postfix_local_selinux - Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the postfix_local processes  

DESCRIPTION

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

 

BOOLEANS

SELinux policy is customizable based on least access required. postfix_local policy is extremely flexible and has several booleans that allow you to manipulate the policy and run postfix_local with the tightest access possible.

If you want to allow postfix_local domain full write access to mail_spool directories, you must turn on the postfix_local_write_mail_spool boolean.

setsebool -P postfix_local_write_mail_spool 1

 

NSSWITCH DOMAIN

If you want to allow users to resolve user passwd entries directly from ldap rather then using a sssd serve for the postfix_local_t, you must turn on the authlogin_nsswitch_use_ldap boolean.

setsebool -P authlogin_nsswitch_use_ldap 1

If you want to allow confined applications to run with kerberos for the postfix_local_t, you must turn on the kerberos_enabled boolean.

setsebool -P kerberos_enabled 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 lsP Policy governs the access confined processes have to these files. SELinux postfix_local policy is very flexible allowing users to setup their postfix_local processes in as secure a method as possible.

The following file types are defined for postfix_local:

postfix_local_exec_t

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

postfix_local_tmp_t

- Set files with the postfix_local_tmp_t type, if you want to store postfix local 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.

 

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 psP Policy governs the access confined processes have to files. SELinux postfix_local policy is very flexible allowing users to setup their postfix_local processes in as secure a method as possible.

The following process types are defined for postfix_local:

postfix_local_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.

 

MANAGED FILES

The SELinux user type postfix_local_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.


anon_inodefs_t


dovecot_spool_t

        /var/spool/dovecot(/.*)?


mail_home_rw_t

        /root/Maildir(/.*)?

       /home/[^/]*/Maildir(/.*)?


mail_spool_t

        /var/mail(/.*)?

       /var/spool/imap(/.*)?

       /var/spool/mail(/.*)?


mailman_data_t

        /etc/mailman.*

       /var/lib/mailman.*

       /var/spool/mailman.*


postfix_local_tmp_t


postfix_spool_t

        /var/spool/postfix.*


postfix_var_run_t

        /var/spool/postfix/pid/.*


user_home_t

        /home/[^/]*/.+

 

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 policy modules.

semanage boolean can also be used to manipulate the booleans

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Index

NAME
DESCRIPTION
BOOLEANS
NSSWITCH DOMAIN
FILE CONTEXTS
PROCESS TYPES
MANAGED FILES
COMMANDS

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