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SELinux System Administration

You're reading from   SELinux System Administration Effectively secure your Linux systems with SELinux

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787126954
Length 300 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Sven Vermeulen Sven Vermeulen
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Preface 1. Fundamental SELinux Concepts FREE CHAPTER 2. Understanding SELinux Decisions and Logging 3. Managing User Logins 4. Process Domains and File-Level Access Controls 5. Controlling Network Communications 6. sVirt and Docker Support 7. D-Bus and systemd 8. Working with SELinux Policies 9. Analyzing Policy Behavior 10. SELinux Use Cases

Using systemd containers


Another feature that systemd supports is systemd-nspawn. This service provides container capabilities in systemd and allows systemd to manage these containers. It uses the same primitives as the LXC project and Docker. SELinux-wise, the software that is running inside the container will not have a correct view on the SELinux state (as is the case with Docker).

However, unlike Docker and libvirt, the systemd-nspawn approach does not support the sVirt technology that we covered in the previous chapter. In other words, it will not dynamically reset the SELinux contexts of the used files, nor will it search for a free category pair to associate with the files and the processes.

Initializing a systemd container

To create a systemd container, first create a root file system in which the software that the container should run is deployed. It is advised to use the /var/lib/machines location, with a subdirectory per container, as this location will be the default location for...

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