SELinux Cookbook
Over 70 hands-on recipes to develop fully functional policies to confine your applications and users using SELinux
Published on 7. October 2025
240 pages
978-1-78398-967-6 (ISBN)
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Book DescriptionIf you are a Linux system administrator or a Linux-based service administrator and want to fine-tune SELinux to implement a supported, mature, and proven access control system, then this book is for you. Basic experience with SELinux enabled distributions is expected.What you will learn
Who this book is for
Book DescriptionIf you are a Linux system administrator or a Linux-based service administrator and want to fine-tune SELinux to implement a supported, mature, and proven access control system, then this book is for you. Basic experience with SELinux enabled distributions is expected.What you will learn
Who this book is for
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Edition
Digital original
Language
English
Place of publication
Birmingham
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
Edition type
Digital original
File size
1,54 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-78398-967-6 (9781783989676)
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Vermeulen Sven :
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.
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.
Content
Table of Contents
SELinux Development Environment
Dealing with file labels
Confining web Applications
Creating a Desktop Application Policy
Creating a Server Policy
Running with Separate Roles
Choosing the Confinement Level
Debugging SELinux
Aligning SELinux with DAC
Handling SELinux-aware Applications
SELinux Development Environment
Dealing with file labels
Confining web Applications
Creating a Desktop Application Policy
Creating a Server Policy
Running with Separate Roles
Choosing the Confinement Level
Debugging SELinux
Aligning SELinux with DAC
Handling SELinux-aware Applications
