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<h1 align="center">checkpolicy_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>
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<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">checkpolicy_selinux
− Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the checkpolicy
processes</p>
<h2>DESCRIPTION
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<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">Security-Enhanced
Linux secures the checkpolicy processes via flexible
mandatory access control.</p>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">The checkpolicy
processes execute with the checkpolicy_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 checkpolicy_t</b></p>
<h2>ENTRYPOINTS
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<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">The
checkpolicy_t SELinux type can be entered via the
<b>checkpolicy_exec_t</b> file type.</p>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">The default
entrypoint paths for the checkpolicy_t domain are the
following:</p>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">/usr/bin/checkpolicy</p>
<h2>PROCESS TYPES
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<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
checkpolicy policy is very flexible allowing users to setup
their checkpolicy processes in as secure a method as
possible.</p>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">The following
process types are defined for checkpolicy:</p>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em"><b>checkpolicy_t</b></p>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">Note:
<b>semanage permissive -a checkpolicy_t</b> can be used to
make the process type checkpolicy_t permissive. SELinux does
not deny access to permissive process types, but the AVC
(SELinux denials) messages are still generated.</p>
<h2>BOOLEANS
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</h2>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">SELinux policy
is customizable based on least access required. checkpolicy
policy is extremely flexible and has several booleans that
allow you to manipulate the policy and run checkpolicy 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>
<h2>MANAGED FILES
<a name="MANAGED FILES"></a>
</h2>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">The SELinux
process type checkpolicy_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>semanage_store_t</b></p>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">/etc/selinux/([^/]*/)?policy(/.*)?
<br>
/etc/selinux/(minimum|mls|targeted)/active(/.*)? <br>
/etc/selinux/([^/]*/)?modules/(active|tmp|previous)(/.*)?
<br>
/var/lib/selinux(/.*)? <br>
/etc/share/selinux/mls(/.*)? <br>
/etc/share/selinux/targeted(/.*)?</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
checkpolicy policy is very flexible allowing users to setup
their checkpolicy processes in as secure a method as
possible.</p>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em"><i>The
following file types are defined for checkpolicy:</i></p>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em"><b>checkpolicy_exec_t</b></p>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">- Set files
with the checkpolicy_exec_t type, if you want to transition
an executable to the checkpolicy_t domain.</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
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</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
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</h2>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">This manual
page was auto-generated using <b>sepolicy manpage .</b></p>
<h2>SEE ALSO
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</h2>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">selinux(8),
checkpolicy(8), semanage(8), restorecon(8), chcon(1),
sepolicy(8), setsebool(8)</p>
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