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SELinux Cookbook
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SELinux Cookbook

by Sven Vermeulen
September 2014
Intermediate to advanced
240 pages
5h 53m
English
Packt Publishing
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Using group membership for role-based access

In larger environments, access controls are usually granted based on group membership. Group membership is easier to manage than individual permissions: just adding or removing users from a group automatically grants or revokes permissions, and administrators can easily find out which permission(s) a user will have based on the group membership.

How to do it…

In order to use group membership as a high-level method for assigning permissions, administrators need to take care of the following aspects:

  1. Add user(s) to the groups they should belong to:
    ~# gpasswd -a user1 dba
    ~# gpasswd -a user1 dev
    
  2. Assign the proper SELinux user to the group:
    ~# semanage login -s dbadm_u %dba
    
  3. Restrict binaries and libraries ...
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