4.2. Adjusting the policy for sharing NFS and CIFS volumes by using SELinux booleans


You can change parts of SELinux policy at runtime using booleans, even without any knowledge of SELinux policy writing. This enables changes, such as allowing services access to NFS volumes, without reloading or recompiling SELinux policy. The following procedure demonstrates listing SELinux booleans and configuring them to achieve the required changes in the policy.

NFS mounts on the client side are labeled with a default context defined by a policy for NFS volumes. In RHEL, this default context uses the nfs_t type. Also, Samba shares mounted on the client side are labeled with a default context defined by the policy. This default context uses the cifs_t type. You can enable or disable booleans to control which services are allowed to access the nfs_t and cifs_t types.

To allow the Apache HTTP server service (httpd) to access and share NFS and CIFS volumes, perform the following steps:

Prerequisites

  • Optionally, install the selinux-policy-devel package to obtain clearer and more detailed descriptions of SELinux booleans in the output of the semanage boolean -l command.

Procedure

  1. Identify SELinux booleans relevant for NFS, CIFS, and Apache:

    # semanage boolean -l | grep 'nfs\|cifs' | grep httpd
    httpd_use_cifs                 (off  ,  off)  Allow httpd to access cifs file systems
    httpd_use_nfs                  (off  ,  off)  Allow httpd to access nfs file systems
  2. List the current state of the booleans:

    $ getsebool -a | grep 'nfs\|cifs' | grep httpd
    httpd_use_cifs --> off
    httpd_use_nfs --> off
  3. Enable the identified booleans:

    # setsebool httpd_use_nfs on
    # setsebool httpd_use_cifs on
    注意

    Use setsebool with the -P option to make the changes persistent across restarts. A setsebool -P command requires a rebuild of the entire policy, and it might take some time depending on your configuration.

Verification

  1. Check that the booleans are on:

    $ getsebool -a | grep 'nfs\|cifs' | grep httpd
    httpd_use_cifs --> on
    httpd_use_nfs --> on
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