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<h1 align="center">vmware_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">vmware_selinux
− Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the vmware
processes</p>
<h2>DESCRIPTION
<a name="DESCRIPTION"></a>
</h2>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">Security-Enhanced
Linux secures the vmware processes via flexible mandatory
access control.</p>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">The vmware
processes execute with the vmware_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 vmware_t</b></p>
<h2>ENTRYPOINTS
<a name="ENTRYPOINTS"></a>
</h2>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">The vmware_t
SELinux type can be entered via the <b>vmware_exec_t</b>
file type.</p>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">The default
entrypoint paths for the vmware_t domain are the
following:</p>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">/opt/vmware/(workstation|player)/bin/vmware,
/opt/vmware/(workstation|player)/bin/vmware-ping,
/opt/vmware/(workstation|player)/bin/vmware-wizard,
/usr/bin/vmware, /usr/bin/vmware-ping,
/usr/bin/vmware-wizard, /usr/sbin/vmware-serverd,
/usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmplayer, /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-ui,
/usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-mks</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 vmware
policy is very flexible allowing users to setup their vmware
processes in as secure a method as possible.</p>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">The following
process types are defined for vmware:</p>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em"><b>vmware_t,
vmware_host_t</b></p>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">Note:
<b>semanage permissive -a vmware_t</b> can be used to make
the process type vmware_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. vmware
policy is extremely flexible and has several booleans that
allow you to manipulate the policy and run vmware 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 confined applications to use nscd shared memory, you
must turn on the nscd_use_shm boolean. Enabled by
default.</p>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em"><b>setsebool -P
nscd_use_shm 1</b></p>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">If you want to
allow regular users direct dri device access, you must turn
on the selinuxuser_direct_dri_enabled boolean. Enabled by
default.</p>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em"><b>setsebool -P
selinuxuser_direct_dri_enabled 1</b></p>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">If you want to
support NFS home directories, you must turn on the
use_nfs_home_dirs boolean. Disabled by default.</p>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em"><b>setsebool -P
use_nfs_home_dirs 1</b></p>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">If you want to
support SAMBA home directories, you must turn on the
use_samba_home_dirs boolean. Disabled by default.</p>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em"><b>setsebool -P
use_samba_home_dirs 1</b></p>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">If you want to
allows clients to write to the X server shared memory
segments, you must turn on the xserver_clients_write_xshm
boolean. Disabled by default.</p>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em"><b>setsebool -P
xserver_clients_write_xshm 1</b></p>
<h2>MANAGED FILES
<a name="MANAGED FILES"></a>
</h2>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">The SELinux
process type vmware_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>cifs_t</b></p>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em"><b>usbfs_t</b></p>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em"><b>user_fonts_cache_t</b></p>
<table width="100%" border="0" rules="none" frame="void"
cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr valign="top" align="left">
<td width="8%"></td>
<td width="7%"></td>
<td width="85%">
<p>/root/.fontconfig(/.*)?</p></td></tr>
<tr valign="top" align="left">
<td width="8%"></td>
<td width="7%"></td>
<td width="85%">
<p>/root/.fonts/auto(/.*)?</p></td></tr>
<tr valign="top" align="left">
<td width="8%"></td>
<td width="7%"></td>
<td width="85%">
<p>/root/.fonts.cache-.*</p></td></tr>
<tr valign="top" align="left">
<td width="8%"></td>
<td width="7%"></td>
<td width="85%">
<p>/root/.cache/fontconfig(/.*)?</p></td></tr>
<tr valign="top" align="left">
<td width="8%"></td>
<td width="7%"></td>
<td width="85%">
<p>/home/[^/]+/.fontconfig(/.*)?</p></td></tr>
<tr valign="top" align="left">
<td width="8%"></td>
<td width="7%"></td>
<td width="85%">
<p>/home/[^/]+/.fonts/auto(/.*)?</p></td></tr>
<tr valign="top" align="left">
<td width="8%"></td>
<td width="7%"></td>
<td width="85%">
<p>/home/[^/]+/.fonts.cache-.*</p></td></tr>
<tr valign="top" align="left">
<td width="8%"></td>
<td width="7%"></td>
<td width="85%">
<p>/home/[^/]+/.cache/fontconfig(/.*)?</p></td></tr>
</table>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em"><b>vmware_conf_t</b></p>
<table width="100%" border="0" rules="none" frame="void"
cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr valign="top" align="left">
<td width="8%"></td>
<td width="92%">
<p>/home/[^/]+/.vmware[^/]*/.*.cfg</p></td></tr>
</table>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em"><b>vmware_file_t</b></p>
<table width="100%" border="0" rules="none" frame="void"
cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr valign="top" align="left">
<td width="8%"></td>
<td width="92%">
<p>/home/[^/]+/vmware(/.*)?</p></td></tr>
<tr valign="top" align="left">
<td width="8%"></td>
<td width="92%">
<p>/home/[^/]+/.vmware(/.*)?</p></td></tr>
</table>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em"><b>vmware_pid_t</b></p>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em"><b>vmware_tmp_t</b></p>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em"><b>vmware_tmpfs_t</b></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
vmware policy is very flexible allowing users to setup their
vmware 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 vmware, 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 vmware_tmpfs_t
’/srv/myvmware_content(/.*)?’ <br>
restorecon -R -v /srv/myvmware_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 vmware:</i></p>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em"><b>vmware_conf_t</b></p>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">- Set files
with the vmware_conf_t type, if you want to treat the files
as vmware configuration data, usually stored under the /etc
directory.</p>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em"><b>vmware_exec_t</b></p>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">- Set files
with the vmware_exec_t type, if you want to transition an
executable to the vmware_t domain. <br>
Paths:</p>
<p style="margin-left:18%;">/opt/vmware/(workstation|player)/bin/vmware,
/opt/vmware/(workstation|player)/bin/vmware-ping,
/opt/vmware/(workstation|player)/bin/vmware-wizard,
/usr/bin/vmware, /usr/bin/vmware-ping,
/usr/bin/vmware-wizard, /usr/sbin/vmware-serverd,
/usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmplayer, /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-ui,
/usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-mks</p>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em"><b>vmware_file_t</b></p>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">- Set files
with the vmware_file_t type, if you want to treat the files
as vmware content. <br>
Paths:</p>
<p style="margin-left:18%;">/home/[^/]+/vmware(/.*)?,
/home/[^/]+/.vmware(/.*)?</p>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em"><b>vmware_host_exec_t</b></p>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">- Set files
with the vmware_host_exec_t type, if you want to transition
an executable to the vmware_host_t domain. <br>
Paths:</p>
<p style="margin-left:18%;">/opt/vmware/(workstation|player)/bin/vmnet-natd,
/opt/vmware/(workstation|player)/bin/vmnet-dhcpd,
/opt/vmware/(workstation|player)/bin/vmware-nmbd,
/opt/vmware/(workstation|player)/bin/vmware-smbd,
/opt/vmware/(workstation|player)/bin/vmnet-bridge,
/opt/vmware/(workstation|player)/bin/vmnet-netifup,
/opt/vmware/(workstation|player)/bin/vmnet-sniffer,
/opt/vmware/(workstation|player)/bin/vmware-smbpasswd,
/opt/vmware/(workstation|player)/bin/vmware-smbpasswd.bin,
/usr/sbin/vmware-guest.*,
/usr/lib/vmware-tools/sbin32/vmware.*,
/usr/lib/vmware-tools/sbin64/vmware.*, /usr/bin/vmnet-natd,
/usr/bin/vmware-vmx, /usr/bin/vmnet-dhcpd,
/usr/bin/vmware-nmbd, /usr/bin/vmware-smbd,
/usr/bin/vmnet-bridge, /usr/bin/vmnet-netifup,
/usr/bin/vmnet-sniffer, /usr/bin/vmware-network,
/usr/bin/vmware-smbpasswd, /usr/bin/vmware-smbpasswd.bin,
/usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-vmx</p>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em"><b>vmware_host_pid_t</b></p>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">- Set files
with the vmware_host_pid_t type, if you want to store the
vmware host files under the /run directory. <br>
Paths:</p>
<p style="margin-left:18%;">/var/run/vmnet.*,
/var/run/vmnat.*, /var/run/vmware.*</p>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em"><b>vmware_host_tmp_t</b></p>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">- Set files
with the vmware_host_tmp_t type, if you want to store vmware
host temporary files in the /tmp directories.</p>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em"><b>vmware_log_t</b></p>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">- Set files
with the vmware_log_t type, if you want to treat the data as
vmware log data, usually stored under the /var/log
directory. <br>
Paths:</p>
<p style="margin-left:18%;">/var/log/vmware.*,
/var/log/vnetlib.*</p>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em"><b>vmware_pid_t</b></p>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">- Set files
with the vmware_pid_t type, if you want to store the vmware
files under the /run directory.</p>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em"><b>vmware_sys_conf_t</b></p>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">- Set files
with the vmware_sys_conf_t type, if you want to treat the
files as vmware sys configuration data, usually stored under
the /etc directory. <br>
Paths:</p>
<p style="margin-left:18%;">/etc/vmware.*(/.*)?,
/usr/lib/vmware/config</p>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em"><b>vmware_tmp_t</b></p>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">- Set files
with the vmware_tmp_t type, if you want to store vmware
temporary files in the /tmp directories.</p>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em"><b>vmware_tmpfs_t</b></p>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">- Set files
with the vmware_tmpfs_t type, if you want to store vmware
files on a tmpfs file system.</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),
vmware(8), semanage(8), restorecon(8), chcon(1),
sepolicy(8), setsebool(8), vmware_host_selinux(8),
vmware_host_selinux(8)</p>
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