semanage(8) — Linux manual page

semanage(8)                                                   semanage(8)

NAME         top

       semanage - SELinux Policy Management tool

SYNOPSIS         top

       semanage
       {import,export,login,user,port,interface,module,node,fcontext,boolean,permissive,dontaudit,ibpkey,ibendport}
                       ...  positional arguments:

       import Import local customizations

       export Output local customizations

       login Manage login mappings between linux users and SELinux
       confined users

       user Manage SELinux confined users (Roles and levels for an
       SELinux user)

       port Manage network port type definitions

       interface Manage network interface type definitions

       module Manage SELinux policy modules

       node Manage network node type definitions

       fcontext Manage file context mapping definitions

       boolean Manage booleans to selectively enable functionality

       permissive Manage process type enforcement mode

       dontaudit Disable/Enable dontaudit rules in policy

       ibpkey Manage infiniband pkey type definitions

       ibendport Manage infiniband end port type definitions

DESCRIPTION         top

       semanage is used to configure certain elements of SELinux policy
       without requiring modification to or recompilation from policy
       sources.  This includes the mapping from Linux usernames to
       SELinux user identities (which controls the initial security
       context assigned to Linux users when they login and bounds their
       authorized role set) as well as security context mappings for
       various kinds of objects, such as network ports, interfaces,
       infiniband pkeys and endports, and nodes (hosts) as well as the
       file context mapping. Note that the semanage login command deals
       with the mapping from Linux usernames (logins) to SELinux user
       identities, while the semanage user command deals with the mapping
       from SELinux user identities to authorized role sets.  In most
       cases, only the former mapping needs to be adjusted by the
       administrator; the latter is principally defined by the base
       policy and usually does not require modification.

OPTIONS         top

       -h, --help
              List help information

SEE ALSO         top

       selinux(8), semanage-boolean(8), semanage-dontaudit(8),
       semanage-export(8), semanage-fcontext(8), semanage-import(8),
       semanage-interface(8), semanage-login(8), semanage-module(8),
       semanage-node(8), semanage-permissive(8), semanage-port(8),
       semanage-user(8) semanage-ibkey(8), semanage-ibendport(8),

AUTHOR         top

       This man page was written by Daniel Walsh <[email protected]>
       and Russell Coker <[email protected]>.
       Examples by Thomas Bleher <[email protected]>.  usage: semanage
       [-h]

COLOPHON         top

       This page is part of the selinux (Security-Enhanced Linux user-
       space libraries and tools) project.  Information about the project
       can be found at ⟨https://github.com/SELinuxProject/selinux/wiki⟩.
       If you have a bug report for this manual page, see
       ⟨https://github.com/SELinuxProject/selinux/wiki/Contributing⟩.
       This page was obtained from the project's upstream Git repository
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Pages that refer to this page: customizable_types(5),  semanage.conf(5),  chcat(8),  genhomedircon(8),  sefcontext_compile(8),  selinux(8),  semanage-boolean(8),  semanage-dontaudit(8),  semanage-export(8),  semanage-fcontext(8),  semanage-ibendport(8),  semanage-ibpkey(8),  semanage-import(8),  semanage-interface(8),  semanage-login(8),  semanage-module(8),  semanage-node(8),  semanage-permissive(8),  semanage-port(8),  semanage-user(8),  sepolicy-network(8),  setsebool(8),  system-config-selinux(8),  useradd(8),  usermod(8)

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