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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Cookbook
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Cookbook

by William Leemans
December 2015
Intermediate to advanced
250 pages
4h 41m
English
Packt Publishing
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Changing file contexts

Files and processes are labeled with a SELinux context, which contains additional information about a SELinux user, role type, and level. This information is provided by the SELinux kernel module to make access control decisions.

The SELinux user, a unique identity known by the SELinux policy, is authorized for a number of roles.

SELinux roles, as we already alluded to before, are attributes of SELinux users and part of the RBAC SELinux policy. SELinux roles are authorized for SELinux domains.

SELinux types define the type for files and domain for processes. SELinux policies define access between types and other files and processes. By default, if there is no specific rule in the SELinux policy, access is denied.

The SELinux ...

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