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failsafe_context

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NAME

failsafe_context - The SELinux fail safe context configuration file

DESCRIPTION

The failsafe_context file allows SELinux-aware applications such as PAM (8) to obtain a known valid login context for an administrator if no valid default entries can be found elsewhere.

selinux_failsafe_context_path (3) will return the active policy path to this file. The default failsafe context file is:

/etc/selinux/{SELINUXTYPE}/contexts/failsafe_context

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

The following functions read this file from the active policy path if they cannot obtain a default context:

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)

FILE FORMAT

The file consists of a single line entry as follows:

role : type [ : range ]

Where:

role type range

A role, type and optional range (for MCS/MLS), separated by colons (:) to form a valid login process context for an administrator to access the system.

EXAMPLE

# ./contexts/failsafe_context
unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0

SEE ALSO

selinux (8), selinux_failsafe_context_path (3), PAM (8), selinux_default_type_path (3), 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), selinux_config (5)