Chapter 1. The SELinux Development Environment
This chapter covers the setup of the SELinux policy development environment. We will cover the following topics in this chapter:
- Creating the development environment
- Building a simple SELinux module
- Calling refpolicy interfaces
- Creating our own interface
- Using the refpolicy naming convention
- Distributing SELinux policy modules
Introduction
Similar to any other software development, having a well-functioning development environment is essential to successfully create and manage SELinux policies. Such an environment should not only support version control, but also be able to quickly search through the sources or show definitions.
With SELinux, this means that the policy module sources (which are all readable ...
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