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SELinux System Administration

You're reading from SELinux System Administration Effectively secure your Linux systems with SELinux

Product type Paperback

Published in Dec 2016

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781787126954

Length 300 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Tools

SELinux

Concepts

System Administration

Author (1):

Sven Vermeulen

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Table of Contents (16) Chapters

SELinux System Administration - Second Edition

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

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Preface

1. Fundamental SELinux Concepts FREE CHAPTER

2. Understanding SELinux Decisions and Logging

3. Managing User Logins

4. Process Domains and File-Level Access Controls

5. Controlling Network Communications

6. sVirt and Docker Support

7. D-Bus and systemd

8. Working with SELinux Policies

9. Analyzing Policy Behavior

10. SELinux Use Cases

Chapter 1. Fundamental SELinux Concepts

Security Enhanced Linux (SELinux) brings additional security measures to your Linux system to further protect its resources.

In this chapter, we will cover:

Why SELinux uses labels to identify resources
How SELinux differs from traditional Linux access controls by enforcing security rules
How the access control rules enforced by SELinux are provided through policy files

In the end, we will cover an overview of the differences between SELinux implementations across Linux distributions.

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Authors (1)

Sven Vermeulen

Sven Vermeulen

Sven Vermeulen (sjvermeu on Twitter) is a long-term contributor to various free software projects and the author of several online guides and resources, including the Gentoo Handbook. He got his first taste of free software in 1997 and never looked back. Within SELinux, Sven contributed several policies to the Reference Policy project, and actively participated in policy development and user space development projects. In his daily job, Sven is an enterprise architect in a European financial institution as well as a self-employed solution engineer and consultant. Prior to this, he graduated with an MSE in computer engineering from Ghent University and an MSc in ICT enterprise architecture from IC Institute.

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