{"id":6265,"date":"2021-03-23T14:40:07","date_gmt":"2021-03-23T09:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.skynats.com\/?p=6265"},"modified":"2024-12-10T16:30:55","modified_gmt":"2024-12-10T11:00:55","slug":"set-up-selinux-on-centos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.skynats.com\/blog\/set-up-selinux-on-centos\/","title":{"rendered":"How to set up SELinux on CentOS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>To set up SELinux on CentOS 7, it is crucial to understand that it will greatly enhance your server&#8217;s security, bringing a higher level of protection to Linux systems. SELinux, or Security-Enhanced Linux, is a security mechanism integrated directly into the Linux kernel. This system provides mandatory access controls that can prevent misconfigurations and potential security vulnerabilities. Linux distributions such as CentOS, RHEL, and Fedora come with SELinux pre-installed and enabled by default, making them inherently more secure right out of the box. By setting up SELinux on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.centos.org\/\">CentOS 7<\/a>, you ensure that your server benefits from these advanced security features, minimizing risks and improving overall stability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you configure the SELinux that helps in access troubleshoot related error message which is a great security risk reducer. SELinux will restrict a server processes requests and users interact with sockets, network ports, and other essential directories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From this blog, you will get an apparent view regarding steps to setup SELinux on centOS as a part of our&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.skynats.com\/linux-server-management\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><span style=\"color:#026b98\" class=\"has-inline-color\">server management<\/span><\/a> plan. You can also take assistance from our technical team support 24\/7 for further Migration and configuration<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-normal-font-size\" id=\"h-why-it-is-essential-to-set-up-selinux-on-centos-7\"><strong>Why it is essential to set up SELinux on CentOS 7<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Before proceeding with the setup SElinux on centOS 7, let have a glance at the reason to set up the SELinux.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SELinux implements Mandatory Access Control (MAC). In every Discretionary Access Control (DAC) and the Linux distribution, this implementation is at top of every presence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;In the earlier traditional security model it considers having three entities i.e (u,g,o)User, Group, and Other with the combination of Read, Write and Execute (r,w,x)permission on the file.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If the users have created a file in the home directory, where the user can access read\/write of that particular group and other entries will be denied.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Use the following command to check the contents inside in home directory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code># ls -l \/home\/tom\/\noutput \ntotal 4\n-rwxrw-r--. 1 tom tom 41 Aug 6 22:45 myscript.sh<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>Here you can grant or deny the file permission to other users or group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, with SELinux, we can define what a user or process can do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Where it keeps every process bound to its domain due to which the process interact with only certain types of files from the allowed domain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We use a test server that runs both a web and an SFTP server.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First install the centos 7 with the minimal package and also install the Apache and vsftp daemons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, we will not configure either of these applications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Firstly, create a test user account in the cloud server and later you need to install the SELinux-related packages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-normal-font-size\" id=\"h-installing-apache-and-sftp-services\"><strong>Installing Apache and SFTP Services<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;First, you need to log into the server as the root user and run the command to install Apache:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code># yum install httpd<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>Use the following commands to start the daemon manually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code># service httpd start<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>Later, Try to install vsftp:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code># yum install vsftpd<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-normal-font-size\" id=\"h-installing-selinux-packages\"><strong>Installing SELinux Packages<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The SELinux has many packages some are installed by default. Dispalys the list of the Red Hat-based distributions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1. policycoreutils<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2. policycoreutils-python<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3. selinux-policy<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>4. selinux-policy-targeted<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>5. libselinux-utils<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>6. setroubleshoot-server<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>7. setools<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>8. setools-console<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>9. mcstrans<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Run the commands to check whether the SELinux packages are installed on CentOS7.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code># rpm -qa | grep selinux<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>If you haven&#8217;t installed all the packages, Use run the following command with the package name.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code># yum install package_name <\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>SELinux Modes<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The SELinux will be available with the following three possible modes<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1. Enforcing<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2. Permissive<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3. Disabled<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By this enforce mode where the user with unauthorized access will be denied. Access denials are written to relevant log files.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Permissive mode is like a semi-enabled state where it won&#8217;t deny all the access any violence policy can be logged in to the audit logs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So ensure to test the SELinux before enforcing it.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>king SELinux Modes and Status<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To check the current SELinux mode you need to run the<em>getenforce<\/em>&nbsp;command<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code># getenforce\nor <\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>you can run the sestatus command:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code># sestatus<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>SELinux Configuration File<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The main configuration file for SELinux is<strong><em>&nbsp;\/etc\/selinux\/config<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To view the content run the command.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code># cat \/etc\/selinux\/config<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>output&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code># This file controls the state of SELinux on the system.\n# SELINUX= can take one of these three values:\n# enforcing - SELinux security policy is enforced.\n# permissive - SELinux prints warnings instead of enforcing.\n# disabled - No SELinux policy is loaded.\nSELINUX=disabled\n# SELINUXTYPE= can take one of these two values:\n# targeted - Targeted processes are protected,\n# minimum - Modification of targeted policy. Only selected processes are protected.\n# mls - Multi Level Security protection.\nSELINUXTYPE=targeted<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Enabling and Disabling SELinux<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;Enable the SELinuxis simple but the disabling can be done in a two-step process. Ensure SELinux is currently disabled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Firstly, we need to edit the \/etc\/selinux\/config file to change the SELINUX directive to permissive mode.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code># vi \/etc\/sysconfig\/selinux\n\n...\nSELINUX=permissive\n...<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>Use the following commands to reboot the system<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code># reboot<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>Search for the string after logging into the server again as root.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSELinux is preventing\u201d from the contents of the \/var\/log\/messages file.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Run the command:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code># cat \/var\/log\/messages | grep \"SELinux is preventing\"<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>If no error occurs that great then move to the next step.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, we can at once search for text containing \u201cSELinux\u201d in \/var\/log\/messages file.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Run the command:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code># cat \/var\/log\/messages | grep \"SELinux\"<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>If you receive any errors of the following kind, we can safely ignore them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mar 22 11:31:02 localhost kernel: SELinux: Initializing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mar 22 11:31:17 localhost kernel: SELinux: Disabled at runtime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mar 22 11:31:22 localhost journal: Unable to lookup SELinux process context: Invalid argument<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mar 22 11:33:20 localhost gnome-session: SELinux Troubleshooter: Applet requires SELinux be enabled to run.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mar 22 11:37:16 localhost kernel: SELinux: Initializing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mar 22 11:37:18 localhost kernel: SELinux: Disabled at runtime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mar 22 11:37:24 localhost journal: Unable to lookup SELinux process context: Invalid argument<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Aug 20 11:37:45 localhost gnome-session: SELinux Troubleshooter: Applet requires SELinux be enabled to run.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mar 2211:39:43 localhost kernel: SELinux: Initializing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mar 22 11:39:45 localhost kernel: SELinux: Disabled at runtime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mar 22 11:39:51 localhost journal: Unable to lookup SELinux process context: Invalid argument<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This happens when SELInux was in disabled or in permissive mode.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the second phase, change the SELINUX directive from permissive to enforcing by editing the config file in the \/etc\/sysconfig\/selinux file:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code># vi \/etc\/sysconfig\/selinux\n...\nSELINUX=enforcing\n...<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>Run the command to reboot the server&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code># reboot<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>Run the sestatus command once the server is online in order to check the SELinux status.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code># sestatus\nSELinux status: enabled\nSELinuxfs mount: \/sys\/fs\/selinux\nSELinux root directory: \/etc\/selinux\nLoaded policy name: targeted\nCurrent mode: permissive\nMode from config file: error (Success)\nPolicy MLS status: enabled\nPolicy deny_unknown status: allowed\nMax kernel policy version: 28<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>Use the command to check the var\/log\/messages file<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code># cat \/var\/log\/messages | grep \"SELinux\"<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>The following will be output with no error.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>Mar 22 11:42:06 localhost kernel: SELinux: Initializing.\nMar 22 11:42:09 localhost systemd&#91;1]: Successfully loaded SELinux policy in 183.302ms.\n\nMar 22 11:44:25 localhost kernel: SELinux: Initializing.\nMar 22 11:44:28 localhost systemd&#91;1]: Successfully loaded SELinux policy in 169.039ms.<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Checking SELinux Modes and Status (Again)<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>To check the SELinux mode run the getenforce command.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code># getenforce<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>If the system is running in enforcing mode then you can see the following output.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Enforcing<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The output will be different if SELinux is disabled:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Disabled<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To get a better picture run the sestatus command<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code># sestatus<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>Output<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>SELinux status: enabled\nSELinuxfs mount: \/sys\/fs\/selinux\nSELinux root directory: \/etc\/selinux\nLoaded policy name: targeted\nCurrent mode: enforcing\nMode from config file: enforcing\nPolicy MLS status: enabled\nPolicy deny_unknown status: allowed\nMax kernel policy version: 28<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>When SELinux is disabled, the output will show:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SELinux status: disabled<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Use the setenforce command to switch enforcing and the permissive modes temporarily.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Note: you won&#8217;t be able to run the setenforce when the SELinux is disabled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Use the command to change the SELinux mode from enforcing to permissive in CentOS 7.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code># setenforce permissive<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>Running the sestatus command will show the difference between the current mode and the defined mode in the config file.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>SELinux status: enabled\nSELinuxfs mount: \/sys\/fs\/selinux\nSELinux root directory: \/etc\/selinux\nLoaded policy name: targeted\nCurrent mode: permissive\nMode from config file: enforcing\nPolicy MLS status: enabled\nPolicy deny_unknown status: allowed\nMax kernel policy version: 28<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>Run the command to switching back to enforcing&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code># setenforce enforcing<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Conclusion<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In short, Follow the steps to set up SELinux on CentOS 7. 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