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diff --git a/man/man8/samba_selinux.8 b/man/man8/samba_selinux.8 new file mode 100644 index 000000000..ca702c799 --- /dev/null +++ b/man/man8/samba_selinux.8 @@ -0,0 +1,56 @@ +.TH "samba_selinux" "8" "17 Jan 2005" "dwalsh@redhat.com" "Samba Selinux Policy documentation" +.SH "NAME" +samba_selinux \- Security Enhanced Linux Policy for Samba +.SH "DESCRIPTION" + +Security-Enhanced Linux secures the Samba server via flexible mandatory access +control. +.SH FILE_CONTEXTS +SELinux requires files to have an extended attribute to define the file type. +Policy governs the access daemons have to these files. +If you want to share files other than home directories, those files must be +labeled samba_share_t. So if you created a special directory /var/eng, you +would need to label the directory with the chcon tool. +.TP +chcon -t samba_share_t /var/eng +.TP +To make this change permanent (survive a relabel), use the semanage command to add the change to file context configuration: +.TP +semanage fcontext -a -t samba_share_t "/var/eng(/.*)?" +.TP +This command adds the following entry to /etc/selinux/POLICYTYPE/contexts/files/file_contexts.local: +.TP +/var/eng(/.*)? system_u:object_r:samba_share_t:s0 +.TP +Run the restorecon command to apply the changes: +.TP +restorecon -R -v /var/eng/ + +.SH SHARING FILES +If you want to share files with multiple domains (Apache, FTP, rsync, Samba), you can set a file context of public_content_t and public_content_rw_t. These context allow any of the above domains to read the content. If you want a particular domain to write to the public_content_rw_t domain, you must set the appropriate boolean. allow_DOMAIN_anon_write. So for samba you would execute: + +setsebool -P allow_smbd_anon_write=1 + +.SH BOOLEANS +.br +SELinux policy is customizable based on least access required. So by +default SELinux policy turns off SELinux sharing of home directories and +the use of Samba shares from a remote machine as a home directory. +.TP +If you are setting up this machine as a Samba server and wish to share the home directories, you need to set the samba_enable_home_dirs boolean. +.br + +setsebool -P samba_enable_home_dirs 1 +.TP +If you want to use a remote Samba server for the home directories on this machine, you must set the use_samba_home_dirs boolean. +.br + +setsebool -P use_samba_home_dirs 1 +.TP +system-config-selinux is a GUI tool available to customize SELinux policy settings. + +.SH AUTHOR +This manual page was written by Dan Walsh <dwalsh@redhat.com>. + +.SH "SEE ALSO" +selinux(8), samba(7), chcon(1), setsebool(8), semanage(8) |