Creating a custom policy looks easier than generating new user
type. Compiled above .te file and now mysql connects from guest_u
domain! didn't expect it to be this simple :D
One more question, what's the usage of 'optional_policy' in above
te file?
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On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 8:09 PM, Daniel J Walsh <dwalsh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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I agree and it would probably be worth investigating what to remove fromOn 02/05/2013 09:06 AM, Dominick Grift wrote:
> A. On Tue, 2013-02-05 at 08:31 -0500, Daniel J Walsh wrote:
>> On 02/05/2013 08:27 AM, Daniel J Walsh wrote:
>>> On 02/04/2013 09:53 PM, Lakshmipathi.G wrote:
>>>> Hi - I have a restricted account with guest_u.How to provide mysql
>>>> access to guest_u without breaking other services?
>>>
>>>> I tried "setsebool -P allow_user_mysql_connect 1"
>>>
>>>> Still it says - ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL
>>>> server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (13)
>>>
>>>
>>>> Thanks for help.
>>>
>>>
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>>> I would add a custom policy module
>>>
>>> policy_module(myguest, 1.0)
>>>
>>> gen_require(` type guest_t; ')
>>>
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>>
>> I guess Dominic beat me to it. Currently the allow_user booleans do not
>> effect
>>
>> guest_u or xguest_u, because I want them as locked down as possible.
>
> The question is where to put the threshold
>
> I recently revisited creating a restricted ssh login user from scratch:
>
> https://84.245.5.136/wordpress/create-a-restricted-openssh-login-user-with-selinux/
>
> some stats:
>
> Me (source): sesearch -ASCT -s myrole_t | grep Found Found 59 semantic av
> rules: Found 4 semantic te rules:
>
> Fedora (source): sesearch -ASCT -s guest_t | grep Found Found 620 semantic
> av rules: Found 38 semantic te rules: Found 82 named file transition
> filename_trans:
>
> me (target): sesearch -ASCT -t myrole_t | grep Found Found 30 semantic av
> rules:
>
> Fedora (target): sesearch -ASCT -t guest_t | grep Found Found 909 semantic
> av rules:
>
> Granted, my policy is probably too locked down as is in many ways. But it
> is easier to extend a policy than it is to remove rules from a policy imho
>
>> The way to adjust their policy is through custom policy rules, or you
>> could generate a new user type using sepolicy generate
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