rsync_selinux(8) rsync Selinux Policy documentation rsync_selinux(8)NAMErsync_selinux - Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the rsync daemon
DESCRIPTION
Security-Enhanced Linux secures the rsync server via flexible mandatory
access control.
FILE_CONTEXTS
SELinux requires files to have an extended attribute to define the file
type. Policy governs the access daemons have to these files. If you
want to share files using the rsync daemon, you must label the files
and directories public_content_t. So if you created a special direc‐
tory /var/rsync, you would need to label the directory with the chcon
tool.
chcon -t public_content_t /var/rsync
If you want to make this permanent, i.e. survive a relabel, you must
add an entry to the file_contexts.local file.
/etc/selinux/POLICYTYPE/contexts/files/file_contexts.local
/var/rsync(/.*)? system_u:object_r:public_content_t
SHARING FILES
If you want to share files with multiple domains (Apache, FTP, rsync,
Samba), you can set a file context of public_content_t and public_con‐
tent_rw_t. These context allow any of the above domains to read the
content. If you want a particular domain to write to the public_con‐
tent_rw_t domain, you must set the appropriate boolean.
allow_DOMAIN_anon_write. So for rsync you would execute:
setsebool -P allow_rsync_anon_write=1
BOOLEANS
You can disable SELinux protection for the rsync daemon by executing:
setsebool -P rsync_disable_trans 1
service xinetd restart
system-config-securitylevel is a GUI tool available to customize
SELinux policy settings.
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Dan Walsh <dwalsh@redhat.com>.
SEE ALSOselinux(8), rsync(1), chcon(1), setsebool(8)dwalsh@redhat.com 17 Jan 2005 rsync_selinux(8)
