sepolicy
Suitesepolicy
utility provides a suite of features to query the installed SELinux policy. These features are either new or were previously provided by separate utilities, such as sepolgen
or setrans
. The suite allows you to generate transition reports, man pages, or even new policy modules, thus giving users easier access and better understanding of the SELinux policy.
sepolicy
. Run the following command as the root user to install sepolicy
:
~]#
yum install policycoreutils-devel
sepolicy
suite provides the following features that are invoked as command-line parameters:
Table 10.2. The sepolicy
Features
Feature | Description |
---|---|
booleans | Query the SELinux Policy to see description of Booleans |
communicate | Query the SELinux policy to see if domains can communicate with each other |
generate | Generate an SELinux policy module template |
gui | Graphical User Interface for SELinux Policy |
interface | List SELinux Policy interfaces |
manpage | Generate SELinux man pages |
network | Query SELinux policy network information |
transition | Query SELinux policy and generate a process transition report |
sepolicy
Python Bindingssesearch
and seinfo
utilities. The sesearch
utility is used for searching rules in a SELinux policy while the seinfo
utility allows you to query various other components in the policy.
sesearch
and seinfo
have been added so that you can use the functionality of these utilities via the sepolicy
suite. See the example below:
> python >>> import sepolicy >>> sepolicy.info(sepolicy.ATTRIBUTE) Returns a dictionary of all information about SELinux Attributes >>>sepolicy.search([sepolicy.ALLOW]) Returns a dictionary of all allow rules in the policy.