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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Cookbook

You're reading from   Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Cookbook Over 60 recipes to help you build, configure, and orchestrate RHEL 7 Server to make your everyday administration experience seamless

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2015
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ISBN-13 9781784392017
Length 250 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Jakub Gaj Jakub Gaj
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Preface 1. Working with KVM Guests FREE CHAPTER 2. Deploying RHEL "En Masse" 3. Configuring Your Network 4. Configuring Your New System 5. Using SELinux 6. Orchestrating with Ansible 7. Puppet Configuration Management 8. Yum and Repositories 9. Securing RHEL 7 10. Monitoring and Performance Tuning Index

Changing file contexts

Files and processes are labeled with a SELinux context, which contains additional information about a SELinux user, role type, and level. This information is provided by the SELinux kernel module to make access control decisions.

The SELinux user, a unique identity known by the SELinux policy, is authorized for a number of roles.

SELinux roles, as we already alluded to before, are attributes of SELinux users and part of the RBAC SELinux policy. SELinux roles are authorized for SELinux domains.

SELinux types define the type for files and domain for processes. SELinux policies define access between types and other files and processes. By default, if there is no specific rule in the SELinux policy, access is denied.

The SELinux level is only used when the SELinux type is set to MLS and should be avoided altogether on anything other than servers. This set of policies doesn't cover the same domains as defined by the default Red Hat SELinux policy. The SELinux level is...

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