January 2018
Intermediate to advanced
376 pages
8h 45m
English
Content preview from Mastering Linux Security and Hardening
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Hands-on lab – SELinux type enforcement
In this lab, you'll install the Apache web server and the appropriate SELinux tools. You'll then view the effects of having the wrong SELinux type assigned to a web content file.
- Install Apache, along with all the required SELinux tools:
sudo yum install httpd setroubleshoot setools policycoreutils policycoreutils-python
- Activate setroubleshoot by restarting the auditd service:
sudo service auditd restart
- Enable and start the Apache service and open port 80 on the firewall:
sudo systemctl enable --now httpd sudo firewall-cmd --permanent --add-service=http sudo firewall-cmd --reload
- In the /var/www/html directory, create an index.html file with the following contents:
<html> <head> <title>SELinux ...