Removing unconfined type
Daniel J Walsh
dwalsh at redhat.com
Tue Jan 15 17:08:57 UTC 2013
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On 01/15/2013 11:48 AM, Anamitra Dutta Majumdar (anmajumd) wrote:
> Hi Dominick,
>
> Can you help me understand why step 5 is needed.
>
> Thanks, Anamitra
>
> On 10/30/12 1:03 PM, "Dominick Grift" <dominick.grift at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, 2012-10-30 at 19:45 +0000, Anamitra Dutta Majumdar (anmajumd)
>> wrote:
>>> We are on RHEL6 and we need to remove the unconfined type from our
>>> targeted Selinux policies so that no process runs in the unconfined
>>> domain.
>>>
>>> In order to achieve that we have removed the unconfined module .Is
>>> there anything Else we need to do.
>>>
>>> Thanks, Anamitra
>>
>> You can also disable the unconfineduser module to make it even more
>> strict
>>
>> but if you do make sure that no users are mapped to unconfined_u and
>> relabel the file system because selinux will change contexts that have
>> unconfined_u in them to unlabeled_t is unconfined_u no longer exists
>>
>> so in theory:
>>
>> 1. setenforce 0 2. change you logging mappings to exclude unconfined_u 3.
>> purge /tmp and /var/tmp 4. semodule unconfineduser 5. fixfiles onboot &&
>> reboot
>>
>> I think that should take care of it
>>
>> Not though that even then there will be some unconfined domains left
>>
>> There is no way to get them out without manually editing and rebuilding
>> the policy
>>
>> But if you disabled the unconfined and unconfineduser modules then you
>> are running pretty strict
>>
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>>
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If you have any files that are owned by unconfined_u they will become
unlabeled_t and not able to be used by confined domains, which is why the
relabel is required.
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