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service_seusers(5)                              SELinux configuration                              service_seusers(5)



NAME
       service_seusers - The SELinux GNU/Linux user and service to SELinux user mapping configuration files

DESCRIPTION
       These  are  optional files that allow services to define an SELinux user when authenticating via SELinux-aware
       login applications such as PAM(8).

       There is one file for each GNU/Linux user name that will be required to run a service with a specific  SELinux
       user name.

       The  path  for  each  configuration  file  is  formed  by  the  path  returned  by selinux_policy_root(3) with
       /logins/username appended (where username is a file representing the GNU/Linux user name).  The  default  ser‐
       vices directory is located at:
              /etc/selinux/{SELINUXTYPE}/logins

       Where {SELINUXTYPE} is the entry from the selinux configuration file config (see selinux_config(5)).

       getseuser(3) reads this file to map services to an SELinux user.

FILE FORMAT
       Each line within the username file is formatted as follows with each component separated by a colon:
              service:seuser[:range]

       Where:
              service
                     The service name used by the application.
              seuser
                     The SELinux user name.
              range
                     The range for MCS/MLS policies.

EXAMPLES
       Example 1 - for the 'root' user:
              # ./logins/root
              ipa:user_u:s0
              this_service:unconfined_u:s0

       Example 2 - for GNU/Linux user 'rch':
              # ./logins/rch
              ipa:unconfined_u:s0
              that_service:unconfined_u:s0

SEE ALSO
       selinux(8), PAM(8), selinux_policy_root(3), getseuser(3), selinux_config(5)



Security Enhanced Linux                              28-Nov-2011                                   service_seusers(5)