With the bits to install it:
diff -pruN selinux-13092011-new/policycoreutils/semanage/Makefile selinux-13092011-new-manual-pages/policycoreutils/semanage/Makefile
--- selinux-13092011-new/policycoreutils/semanage/Makefile 2011-09-13 03:10:39.427692261 +0200
+++ selinux-13092011-new-manual-pages/policycoreutils/semanage/Makefile 2011-09-13 07:22:46.159015090 +0200
@@ -11,9 +11,11 @@ TARGETS=semanage
all: $(TARGETS)
install: all
+ [ -d $(MANDIR)/man5 ] || mkdir -p $(MANDIR)/man5
[ -d $(MANDIR)/man8 ] || mkdir -p $(MANDIR)/man8
-mkdir -p $(SBINDIR)
install -m 755 semanage $(SBINDIR)
+ install -m 644 semanage.conf.5 $(MANDIR)/man5
install -m 644 semanage.8 $(MANDIR)/man8
test -d $(PYTHONLIBDIR)/site-packages || install -m 755 -d $(PYTHONLIBDIR)/site-packages
install -m 755 seobject.py $(PYTHONLIBDIR)/site-packages
On Tue, 2011-09-13 at 07:00 +0200, Guido Trentalancia wrote:
> So, here is a first new manual page that I propose to introduce:
> semanage.conf(5).
>
> On Mon, 2011-09-12 at 23:28 +0200, Guido Trentalancia wrote:
> > On Thu, 2011-09-01 at 21:52 -0400, Eric Paris wrote:
> > > On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 5:21 PM, Guido Trentalancia
> > > <guido@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > On Thu, 2011-09-01 at 09:42 -0400, Daniel J Walsh wrote:
> > > >> On 09/01/2011 01:09 AM, Russell Coker wrote:
> > > >> > Has anyone written manpages for genhomedircon, sepolgen-ifgen, and
> > > >> > seunshare? If not is there someone with some spare time and man
> > > >> > page writing skill?
>
> [cut]
>
> > I would like to take this opportunity to suggest that we create manual
> > pages for configuration files where possible (none available at the
> > moment ?!?).
> >
> > For example, the very first one I would like to have is
> > semanage.conf.5.
>
> diff -pruN selinux/policycoreutils/semanage/semanage.conf.5 selinux-13092011-new-manual-pages/policycoreutils/semanage/semanage.conf.5
> --- selinux/policycoreutils/semanage/semanage.conf.5 1970-01-01 01:00:00.000000000 +0100
> +++ selinux-13092011-new-manual-pages/policycoreutils/semanage/semanage.conf.5 2011-09-13 06:54:47.309754193 +0200
> @@ -0,0 +1,93 @@
> +.TH semanage.conf "5" "September 2011" "semanage.conf" "Linux System Administration"
> +.SH NAME
> +semanage.conf \- global configuration file for the SELinux Management library
> +.SH DESCRIPTION
> +.PP
> +The
> +.BR semanage.conf
> +file is usually located under the directory /etc/selinux and it is used for run-time configuration of the
> +behavior of the SELinux Management library.
> +
> +.PP
> +Each line should contain a configuration parameter followed by the equal sign ("=") and then followed by the configuration value for that
> +parameter. Anything after the "#" symbol is ignored similarly to empty lines.
> +
> +.PP
> +The following parameters are allowed:
> +
> +.RS
> +.TP
> +.B module-store
> +Specify how the SELinux Management library should interact with the SELinux policy store. When set to "direct", the SELinux
> +Management library writes to the SELinux policy module store directly (this is the default setting).
> +Otherwise a socket path or a server name can be used for the argument.
> +If the argument begins with "/" (as in "/foo/bar"), it represents the path to a named socket that should be used to connect the policy management
> +server.
> +If the argument does not begin with a "/" (as in "foo.com:4242"), it should be interpreted as the name of a remote policy management server
> +to be used through a TCP connection (default port is 4242 unless a different one is specified after the server name using the colon to separate
> +the two fields).
> +
> +.TP
> +.B policy-version
> +When generating the policy, by default
> +.BR semanage
> +will set the policy version to POLICYDB_VERSION_MAX, as defined in <sepol/policydb/policydb.h>. Change this setting if a different
> +version needs to be set for the policy.
> +
> +.TP
> +.B expand-check
> +Whether or not to check "neverallow" rules when executing all
> +.BR semanage
> +command. It can be set to either "0" (disabled) or "1" (enabled) and by default it is enabled. There might be a large
> +penalty in execution time if this option is enabled.
> +
> +.TP
> +.B file-mode
> +By default the permission mode for the run-time policy files is set to 0644.
> +
> +.TP
> +.B save-previous
> +It controls whether the previous module directory is saved after a successful commit to the policy store and it can be set to
> +either "true" or "false". By default it is set to "false" (the previous version is deleted).
> +
> +.TP
> +.B save-linked
> +It controls whether the previously linked module is saved (with name "base.linked") after a successful commit to the policy store.
> +It can be set to either "true" or "false" and by default it is set to "false" (the previous module is deleted).
> +
> +.TP
> +.B usepasswd
> +Whether or not to enable the use getpwent() to obtain a list of home directories to label. It can be set to either "true" or "false".
> +By default it is set to "true".
> +
> +.TP
> +.B disable-genhomedircon
> +It controls whether or not the genhomedircon function is executed when using the
> +.BR semanage
> +command and it can be set to either "false" or "true". By default the genhomedircon functionality is enabled (equivalent
> +to this option set to "false").
> +
> +.TP
> +.B handle-unknown
> +This option controls the kernel behavior for handling permissions defined in the kernel but missing from the actual policy.
> +It can be set to "deny", "reject" or "allow".
> +
> +.TP
> +.B bzip-blocksize
> +It should be in the range 0-9. A value of 0 means no compression. By default the bzip block size is set to 9 (actual block
> +size value is obtained after multiplication by 100000).
> +
> +.TP
> +.B bzip-small
> +When set to "true", the bzip algorithm shall try to reduce its system memory usage. It can be set to either "true" or "false" and
> +by default it is set to "false".
> +
> +.SH "SEE ALSO"
> +.TP
> +semanage(8)
> +.PP
> +
> +.SH AUTHOR
> +This manual page was written by Guido Trentalancia <guido@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>.
> +
> +The SELinux management library was written by Tresys Technology LLC and Red Hat Inc.
>
> Very simple, but possibly useful...
>
> Regards,
>
> Guido
>
>
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