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<h1 align="center">user_mail_selinux</h1>

<a href="#NAME">NAME</a><br>
<a href="#DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</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="#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">user_mail_selinux
&minus; Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the user_mail
processes</p>

<h2>DESCRIPTION
<a name="DESCRIPTION"></a>
</h2>



<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">Security-Enhanced
Linux secures the user_mail processes via flexible mandatory
access control.</p>

<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">The user_mail
processes execute with the user_mail_t SELinux type. You can
check if you have these processes running by executing the
<b>ps</b> command with the <b>&minus;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 user_mail_t</b></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>&minus;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
user_mail policy is very flexible allowing users to setup
their user_mail processes in as secure a method as
possible.</p>

<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">The following
process types are defined for user_mail:</p>


<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em"><b>user_mail_t</b></p>

<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">Note:
<b>semanage permissive -a user_mail_t</b> can be used to
make the process type user_mail_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. user_mail
policy is extremely flexible and has several booleans that
allow you to manipulate the policy and run user_mail 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>

<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>

<h2>MANAGED FILES
<a name="MANAGED FILES"></a>
</h2>


<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">The SELinux
process type user_mail_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>courier_spool_t</b></p>


<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">/var/spool/courier(/.*)?
<br>
/var/spool/authdaemon(/.*)?</p>


<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em"><b>etc_aliases_t</b></p>


<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">/etc/mail/.*.db
<br>
/etc/mail/aliases.* <br>
/etc/postfix/aliases.* <br>
/etc/aliases <br>
/etc/aliases.db</p>


<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em"><b>etc_mail_t</b></p>


<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">/etc/mail(/.*)?</p>


<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em"><b>exim_log_t</b></p>


<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">/var/log/exim[0-9]?(/.*)?</p>


<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em"><b>exim_spool_t</b></p>


<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">/var/spool/exim[0-9]?(/.*)?</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>


<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em"><b>mail_home_rw_t</b></p>


<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">/root/Maildir(/.*)?
<br>
/root/.esmtp_queue(/.*)? <br>
/var/lib/arpwatch/.esmtp_queue(/.*)? <br>
/home/[^/]+/.maildir(/.*)? <br>
/home/[^/]+/Maildir(/.*)? <br>
/home/[^/]+/.esmtp_queue(/.*)?</p>


<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em"><b>mail_home_t</b></p>

<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">/root/.mailrc
<br>
/root/.esmtprc <br>
/root/.forward <br>
/root/dead.letter <br>
/home/[^/]+/.forward[^/]* <br>
/home/[^/]+/.mailrc <br>
/home/[^/]+/.esmtprc <br>
/home/[^/]+/dead.letter</p>


<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em"><b>mail_spool_t</b></p>


<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">/var/mail(/.*)?
<br>
/var/spool/imap(/.*)? <br>
/var/spool/mail(/.*)? <br>
/var/spool/smtpd(/.*)?</p>


<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em"><b>mqueue_spool_t</b></p>


<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">/var/spool/(client)?mqueue(/.*)?
<br>
/var/spool/mqueue.in(/.*)?</p>


<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em"><b>nfs_t</b></p>


<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em"><b>sendmail_log_t</b></p>


<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">/var/log/mail(/.*)?
<br>
/var/log/sendmail.st.*</p>


<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em"><b>user_home_t</b></p>


<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">/home/[^/]+/.+</p>


<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em"><b>user_mail_tmp_t</b></p>


<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em"><b>uucpd_spool_t</b></p>


<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">/var/spool/uucp(/.*)?
<br>
/var/spool/uucppublic(/.*)?</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),
user_mail(8), semanage(8), restorecon(8), chcon(1),
sepolicy(8), setsebool(8)</p>
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