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<h1 align="center">dovecot_auth_selinux</h1>
<a href="#NAME">NAME</a><br>
<a href="#DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</a><br>
<a href="#ENTRYPOINTS">ENTRYPOINTS</a><br>
<a href="#PROCESS TYPES">PROCESS TYPES</a><br>
<a href="#BOOLEANS">BOOLEANS</a><br>
<a href="#MANAGED FILES">MANAGED FILES</a><br>
<a href="#FILE CONTEXTS">FILE CONTEXTS</a><br>
<a href="#COMMANDS">COMMANDS</a><br>
<a href="#AUTHOR">AUTHOR</a><br>
<a href="#SEE ALSO">SEE ALSO</a><br>
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<h2>NAME
<a name="NAME"></a>
</h2>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">dovecot_auth_selinux
− Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the dovecot_auth
processes</p>
<h2>DESCRIPTION
<a name="DESCRIPTION"></a>
</h2>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">Security-Enhanced
Linux secures the dovecot_auth processes via flexible
mandatory access control.</p>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">The
dovecot_auth processes execute with the dovecot_auth_t
SELinux type. You can check if you have these processes
running by executing the <b>ps</b> command with the
<b>−Z</b> qualifier.</p>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">For
example:</p>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em"><b>ps -eZ |
grep dovecot_auth_t</b></p>
<h2>ENTRYPOINTS
<a name="ENTRYPOINTS"></a>
</h2>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">The
dovecot_auth_t SELinux type can be entered via the
<b>dovecot_auth_exec_t</b> file type.</p>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">The default
entrypoint paths for the dovecot_auth_t domain are the
following:</p>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">/usr/libexec/dovecot/auth,
/usr/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-auth</p>
<h2>PROCESS TYPES
<a name="PROCESS TYPES"></a>
</h2>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">SELinux defines
process types (domains) for each process running on the
system</p>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">You can see the
context of a process using the <b>−Z</b> option to
<b>ps</b></p>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">Policy governs
the access confined processes have to files. SELinux
dovecot_auth policy is very flexible allowing users to setup
their dovecot_auth processes in as secure a method as
possible.</p>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">The following
process types are defined for dovecot_auth:</p>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em"><b>dovecot_auth_t</b></p>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">Note:
<b>semanage permissive -a dovecot_auth_t</b> can be used to
make the process type dovecot_auth_t permissive. SELinux
does not deny access to permissive process types, but the
AVC (SELinux denials) messages are still generated.</p>
<h2>BOOLEANS
<a name="BOOLEANS"></a>
</h2>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">SELinux policy
is customizable based on least access required. dovecot_auth
policy is extremely flexible and has several booleans that
allow you to manipulate the policy and run dovecot_auth with
the tightest access possible.</p>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">If you want to
allow all domains to execute in fips_mode, you must turn on
the fips_mode boolean. Enabled by default.</p>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em"><b>setsebool -P
fips_mode 1</b></p>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">If you want to
allow system to run with NIS, you must turn on the
nis_enabled boolean. Disabled by default.</p>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em"><b>setsebool -P
nis_enabled 1</b></p>
<h2>MANAGED FILES
<a name="MANAGED FILES"></a>
</h2>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">The SELinux
process type dovecot_auth_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.</p>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em"><b>dovecot_auth_tmp_t</b></p>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em"><b>dovecot_var_run_t</b></p>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">/var/run/dovecot(-login)?(/.*)?</p>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em"><b>faillog_t</b></p>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">/var/log/btmp.*
<br>
/var/log/faillog.* <br>
/var/log/tallylog.* <br>
/var/run/faillock(/.*)?</p>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em"><b>initrc_var_run_t</b></p>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">/var/run/utmp
<br>
/var/run/random-seed <br>
/var/run/runlevel.dir <br>
/var/run/setmixer_flag</p>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em"><b>krb5_host_rcache_t</b></p>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">/var/tmp/krb5_0.rcache2
<br>
/var/cache/krb5rcache(/.*)? <br>
/var/tmp/nfs_0 <br>
/var/tmp/DNS_25 <br>
/var/tmp/host_0 <br>
/var/tmp/imap_0 <br>
/var/tmp/HTTP_23 <br>
/var/tmp/HTTP_48 <br>
/var/tmp/ldap_55 <br>
/var/tmp/ldap_487 <br>
/var/tmp/ldapmap1_0</p>
<h2>FILE CONTEXTS
<a name="FILE CONTEXTS"></a>
</h2>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">SELinux
requires files to have an extended attribute to define the
file type.</p>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">You can see the
context of a file using the <b>−Z</b> option to
<b>ls</b></p>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">Policy governs
the access confined processes have to these files. SELinux
dovecot_auth policy is very flexible allowing users to setup
their dovecot_auth processes in as secure a method as
possible.</p>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em"><b>STANDARD
FILE CONTEXT</b></p>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">SELinux defines
the file context types for the dovecot_auth, 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.</p>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em"><b>semanage
fcontext -a -t dovecot_auth_tmp_t
’/srv/mydovecot_auth_content(/.*)?’ <br>
restorecon -R -v /srv/mydovecot_auth_content</b></p>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">Note: SELinux
often uses regular expressions to specify labels that match
multiple files.</p>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em"><i>The
following file types are defined for dovecot_auth:</i></p>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em"><b>dovecot_auth_exec_t</b></p>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">- Set files
with the dovecot_auth_exec_t type, if you want to transition
an executable to the dovecot_auth_t domain. <br>
Paths:</p>
<p style="margin-left:18%;">/usr/libexec/dovecot/auth,
/usr/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-auth</p>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em"><b>dovecot_auth_tmp_t</b></p>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">- Set files
with the dovecot_auth_tmp_t type, if you want to store
dovecot auth temporary files in the /tmp directories.</p>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">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 <b>semanage fcontext</b> command. This will
modify the SELinux labeling database. You will need to use
<b>restorecon</b> to apply the labels.</p>
<h2>COMMANDS
<a name="COMMANDS"></a>
</h2>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em"><b>semanage
fcontext</b> can also be used to manipulate default file
context mappings.</p>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em"><b>semanage
permissive</b> can also be used to manipulate whether or not
a process type is permissive.</p>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em"><b>semanage
module</b> can also be used to enable/disable/install/remove
policy modules.</p>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em"><b>semanage
boolean</b> can also be used to manipulate the booleans</p>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em"><b>system-config-selinux</b>
is a GUI tool available to customize SELinux policy
settings.</p>
<h2>AUTHOR
<a name="AUTHOR"></a>
</h2>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">This manual
page was auto-generated using <b>sepolicy manpage .</b></p>
<h2>SEE ALSO
<a name="SEE ALSO"></a>
</h2>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">selinux(8),
dovecot_auth(8), semanage(8), restorecon(8), chcon(1),
sepolicy(8), setsebool(8)</p>
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