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user_contexts(5)					       SELinux configuration						  user_contexts(5)

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user_contexts - The SELinux user contexts configuration files DESCRIPTION
These optional user context configuration files contain entries that allow SELinux-aware login applications such as PAM(8) (running in their own process context), to determine the context that a users login session should run under. SELinux-aware login applications generally use one or more of the following libselinux functions that read these files from the active pol- icy path: get_default_context(3) get_ordered_context_list(3) get_ordered_context_list_with_level(3) get_default_context_with_level(3) get_default_context_with_role(3) get_default_context_with_rolelevel(3) query_user_context(3) manual_user_enter_context(3) There can be one file for each SELinux user configured on the system. The file path is formed using the path returned by selinux_user_contexts_path(3) for the active policy, with the SELinux user name appended, for example: /etc/selinux/{SELINUXTYPE}/contexts/users/unconfined_u /etc/selinux/{SELINUXTYPE}/contexts/users/xguest_u Where {SELINUXTYPE} is the entry from the selinux configuration file config (see selinux_config(5)). These files contain context information as described in the FILE FORMAT section. FILE FORMAT
Each line in the user context configuration file consists of the following: login_process user_login_process Where: login_process This consists of a role:type[:range] entry that represents the login process context. user_login_process This consists of a role:type[:range] entry that represents the user login process context. EXAMPLE
# Example for xguest_u at /etc/selinux/targeted/contexts/users/xguest_u system_r:crond_t:s0 xguest_r:xguest_t:s0 system_r:initrc_t:s0 xguest_r:xguest_t:s0 system_r:local_login_t:s0 xguest_r:xguest_t:s0 system_r:remote_login_t:s0 xguest_r:xguest_t:s0 system_r:sshd_t:s0 xguest_r:xguest_t:s0 system_r:xdm_t:s0 xguest_r:xguest_t:s0 xguest_r:xguest_t:s0 xguest_r:xguest_t:s0 SEE ALSO
selinux(8), selinux_user_contexts_path(3), PAM(8), get_ordered_context_list(3), get_ordered_context_list_with_level(3), get_default_context_with_level(3), get_default_context_with_role(3), get_default_context_with_rolelevel(3), query_user_context(3), manual_user_enter_context(3), selinux_config(5) Security Enhanced Linux 28-Nov-2011 user_contexts(5)

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get_ordered_context_list(3)					      SELinux					       get_ordered_context_list(3)

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get_ordered_context_list, get_ordered_context_list_with_level, get_default_context, get_default_context_with_level, get_default_con- text_with_role, get_default_context_with_rolelevel, query_user_context, manual_user_enter_context, get_default_role - determine SELinux context(s) for user sessions SYNOPSIS
#include <selinux/selinux.h> #include <selinux/get_context_list.h> int get_ordered_context_list(const char *user, security_context_t fromcon, security_context_t **list); int get_ordered_context_list_with_level(const char *user, const char *level, security_context_t fromcon, security_context_t **list); int get_default_context(const char *user, security_context_t fromcon, security_context_t *newcon); int get_default_context_with_level(const char *user, const char *level, security_context_t fromcon, security_context_t *newcon); int get_default_context_with_role(const char *user, const char *role, security_context_t fromcon, security_context_t *newcon); int get_default_context_with_rolelevel(const char *user, const char *level, const char *role, security_context_t fromcon, security_con- text_t *newcon); int query_user_context(security_context_t *list, security_context_t *newcon); int manual_user_enter_context(const char *user, security_context_t *newcon); int get_default_type(const char *role, char **type); DESCRIPTION
get_ordered_context_list() invokes the security_compute_user(3) function to obtain the list of contexts for the specified user that are reachable from the specified fromcon context. The function then orders the resulting list based on the global /etc/selinux/{SELINUXTYPE}/contexts/default_contexts file and the per-user /etc/selinux/{SELINUXTYPE}/contexts/users/<username> file if it exists. The fromcon parameter may be NULL to indicate that the current context should be used. The function returns the number of con- texts in the list, or -1 upon errors. The list must be freed using the freeconary(3) function. get_ordered_context_list_with_level() invokes the get_ordered_context_list() function and applies the specified level. get_default_context() is the same as get_ordered_context_list() but only returns a single context which has to be freed with freecon(3). get_default_context_with_level() invokes the get_default_context() function and applies the specified level. get_default_context_with_role() is the same as get_default_context() but only returns a context with the specified role, returning -1 if no such context is reachable for the user. get_default_context_with_rolelevel() invokes the get_default_context_with_role() function and applies the specified level. query_user_context() takes a list of contexts, queries the user via stdin/stdout as to which context they want, and returns a new context as selected by the user (which has to be freed with freecon(3)). manual_user_enter_context() allows the user to manually enter a context as a fallback if a list of authorized contexts could not be obtained. Caller must free via freecon(3). get_default_type() Get the default type (domain) for role and set type to refer to it, which has to be freed with free. RETURN VALUE
get_ordered_context_list() and get_ordered_context_list_with_level() return the number of contexts in the list upon success or -1 upon errors. The other functions return 0 for success or -1 for errors. SEE ALSO
selinux(8), freeconary(3), freecon(3), security_compute_av(3), getseuserbyname(3) russell@coker.com.au 1 January 2004 get_ordered_context_list(3)
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