Hi all,
SELinux has some configuration files such as /etc/selinux/config which are easily managed with a tool like puppet. There’s also modular policies that can be managed with rpms (via Satellite) and or puppet (semodule).
Finally puppet supports enforcing booleans with 'seboolean’. However, there’s a few things missing:
- SELinux user and role mappings
- Port labels (only supported in base policy or changed with semanage like so: semanage port -a -t httpd_port_t -p tcp 6312)
- Custom file labels (ie. semanage fcontext -a -t httpd_sys_content_t "/data/www(/.*)?")
I know these can be imported and exported with semanage using the -i and -o flags, however it’s slow and doesn't easily facilitate the programmatic query and enforcement of these settings at scale using a tool
like puppet. Ideally puppet could manage the .local files in /etc/selinux/targeted/modules/active/, however Red Hat support tells me this won’t work and that semanage is the only supported mechanism. Surely there’s someone in the community who has a non-hackish
method of dealing with this?
Is FreeIPA the solution to the user and role mappings? What about the labels?
Thanks,
Doug