Red Hat Summit6.2. SELinux roles in MLS
The SELinux policy maps each Linux user to an SELinux user. This allows Linux users to inherit the restrictions of SELinux users.
The MLS policy does not contain the unconfined module, including unconfined users, types, and roles. As a result, users that would be unconfined, including root, cannot access every object and perform every action they could in the targeted policy.
You can customize the permissions for confined users in your SELinux policy according to specific needs by adjusting the booleans in policy. You can determine the current state of these booleans by using the semanage boolean -l command. To list all SELinux users, their SELinux roles, and MLS/MCS levels and ranges, use the semanage user -l command as root.
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Note that system_u is a special user identity for system processes and objects, and system_r is the associated role. Administrators must never associate this system_u user and the system_r role to a Linux user. Also, unconfined_u and root are unconfined users. For these reasons, the roles associated to these SELinux users are not included in the following table Types and access of SELinux roles.
Each SELinux role corresponds to an SELinux type and provides specific access rights.
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By default, the
sysadm_rrole has the rights of thesecadm_rrole, which means a user with thesysadm_rrole can manage the security policy. If this does not correspond to your use case, you can separate the two roles by disabling thesysadm_secadmmodule in the policy. For additional information, see Separating system administration from security administration in MLS. -
Non-login roles
dbadm_r,logadm_r, andwebadm_rcan be used for a subset of administrative tasks. By default, these roles are not associated with any SELinux user.
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