From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from goalie.tycho.ncsc.mil (goalie [144.51.3.250]) by tarius.tycho.ncsc.mil (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id p8D5S709005269 for ; Tue, 13 Sep 2011 01:28:07 -0400 Received: from cp-out9.libero.it (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by msux-gh1-uea01.nsa.gov (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id p8D5S5Yw000513 for ; Tue, 13 Sep 2011 05:28:05 GMT Subject: Re: [RFC] semanage.conf manual page (was Re: policycoreutils manpages needed) From: Guido Trentalancia To: Eric Paris Cc: Daniel J Walsh , russell@coker.com.au, SELinux Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2011 07:27:37 +0200 In-Reply-To: <1315890045.2177.47.camel@vortex> References: <201109011509.05872.russell@coker.com.au> <4E5F8BAA.6060208@redhat.com> <1314912106.2334.2.camel@vortex> <1315862884.2223.33.camel@vortex> <1315890045.2177.47.camel@vortex> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Message-ID: <1315891657.2177.49.camel@vortex> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-selinux@tycho.nsa.gov List-Id: selinux@tycho.nsa.gov With the bits to install it: diff -pruN selinux-13092011-new/policycoreutils/semanage/Makefile selinux-13092011-new-manual-pages/policycoreutils/semanage/Makefile --- selinux-13092011-new/policycoreutils/semanage/Makefile 2011-09-13 03:10:39.427692261 +0200 +++ selinux-13092011-new-manual-pages/policycoreutils/semanage/Makefile 2011-09-13 07:22:46.159015090 +0200 @@ -11,9 +11,11 @@ TARGETS=semanage all: $(TARGETS) install: all + [ -d $(MANDIR)/man5 ] || mkdir -p $(MANDIR)/man5 [ -d $(MANDIR)/man8 ] || mkdir -p $(MANDIR)/man8 -mkdir -p $(SBINDIR) install -m 755 semanage $(SBINDIR) + install -m 644 semanage.conf.5 $(MANDIR)/man5 install -m 644 semanage.8 $(MANDIR)/man8 test -d $(PYTHONLIBDIR)/site-packages || install -m 755 -d $(PYTHONLIBDIR)/site-packages install -m 755 seobject.py $(PYTHONLIBDIR)/site-packages On Tue, 2011-09-13 at 07:00 +0200, Guido Trentalancia wrote: > So, here is a first new manual page that I propose to introduce: > semanage.conf(5). > > On Mon, 2011-09-12 at 23:28 +0200, Guido Trentalancia wrote: > > On Thu, 2011-09-01 at 21:52 -0400, Eric Paris wrote: > > > On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 5:21 PM, Guido Trentalancia > > > wrote: > > > > On Thu, 2011-09-01 at 09:42 -0400, Daniel J Walsh wrote: > > > >> On 09/01/2011 01:09 AM, Russell Coker wrote: > > > >> > Has anyone written manpages for genhomedircon, sepolgen-ifgen, and > > > >> > seunshare? If not is there someone with some spare time and man > > > >> > page writing skill? > > [cut] > > > I would like to take this opportunity to suggest that we create manual > > pages for configuration files where possible (none available at the > > moment ?!?). > > > > For example, the very first one I would like to have is > > semanage.conf.5. > > diff -pruN selinux/policycoreutils/semanage/semanage.conf.5 selinux-13092011-new-manual-pages/policycoreutils/semanage/semanage.conf.5 > --- selinux/policycoreutils/semanage/semanage.conf.5 1970-01-01 01:00:00.000000000 +0100 > +++ selinux-13092011-new-manual-pages/policycoreutils/semanage/semanage.conf.5 2011-09-13 06:54:47.309754193 +0200 > @@ -0,0 +1,93 @@ > +.TH semanage.conf "5" "September 2011" "semanage.conf" "Linux System Administration" > +.SH NAME > +semanage.conf \- global configuration file for the SELinux Management library > +.SH DESCRIPTION > +.PP > +The > +.BR semanage.conf > +file is usually located under the directory /etc/selinux and it is used for run-time configuration of the > +behavior of the SELinux Management library. > + > +.PP > +Each line should contain a configuration parameter followed by the equal sign ("=") and then followed by the configuration value for that > +parameter. Anything after the "#" symbol is ignored similarly to empty lines. > + > +.PP > +The following parameters are allowed: > + > +.RS > +.TP > +.B module-store > +Specify how the SELinux Management library should interact with the SELinux policy store. When set to "direct", the SELinux > +Management library writes to the SELinux policy module store directly (this is the default setting). > +Otherwise a socket path or a server name can be used for the argument. > +If the argument begins with "/" (as in "/foo/bar"), it represents the path to a named socket that should be used to connect the policy management > +server. > +If the argument does not begin with a "/" (as in "foo.com:4242"), it should be interpreted as the name of a remote policy management server > +to be used through a TCP connection (default port is 4242 unless a different one is specified after the server name using the colon to separate > +the two fields). > + > +.TP > +.B policy-version > +When generating the policy, by default > +.BR semanage > +will set the policy version to POLICYDB_VERSION_MAX, as defined in . Change this setting if a different > +version needs to be set for the policy. > + > +.TP > +.B expand-check > +Whether or not to check "neverallow" rules when executing all > +.BR semanage > +command. It can be set to either "0" (disabled) or "1" (enabled) and by default it is enabled. There might be a large > +penalty in execution time if this option is enabled. > + > +.TP > +.B file-mode > +By default the permission mode for the run-time policy files is set to 0644. > + > +.TP > +.B save-previous > +It controls whether the previous module directory is saved after a successful commit to the policy store and it can be set to > +either "true" or "false". By default it is set to "false" (the previous version is deleted). > + > +.TP > +.B save-linked > +It controls whether the previously linked module is saved (with name "base.linked") after a successful commit to the policy store. > +It can be set to either "true" or "false" and by default it is set to "false" (the previous module is deleted). > + > +.TP > +.B usepasswd > +Whether or not to enable the use getpwent() to obtain a list of home directories to label. It can be set to either "true" or "false". > +By default it is set to "true". > + > +.TP > +.B disable-genhomedircon > +It controls whether or not the genhomedircon function is executed when using the > +.BR semanage > +command and it can be set to either "false" or "true". By default the genhomedircon functionality is enabled (equivalent > +to this option set to "false"). > + > +.TP > +.B handle-unknown > +This option controls the kernel behavior for handling permissions defined in the kernel but missing from the actual policy. > +It can be set to "deny", "reject" or "allow". > + > +.TP > +.B bzip-blocksize > +It should be in the range 0-9. A value of 0 means no compression. By default the bzip block size is set to 9 (actual block > +size value is obtained after multiplication by 100000). > + > +.TP > +.B bzip-small > +When set to "true", the bzip algorithm shall try to reduce its system memory usage. It can be set to either "true" or "false" and > +by default it is set to "false". > + > +.SH "SEE ALSO" > +.TP > +semanage(8) > +.PP > + > +.SH AUTHOR > +This manual page was written by Guido Trentalancia . > + > +The SELinux management library was written by Tresys Technology LLC and Red Hat Inc. > > Very simple, but possibly useful... > > Regards, > > Guido > > > -- > This message was distributed to subscribers of the selinux mailing list. > If you no longer wish to subscribe, send mail to majordomo@tycho.nsa.gov with > the words "unsubscribe selinux" without quotes as the message. > -- This message was distributed to subscribers of the selinux mailing list. If you no longer wish to subscribe, send mail to majordomo@tycho.nsa.gov with the words "unsubscribe selinux" without quotes as the message.