Ansible SELinux: Manage Modes, Booleans & Contexts (Complete Guide) — Video Tutorial

SELinux Permissive Domain What is SELinux? Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux) is a Linux kernel security module that provides a mechanism for supporting access control security policies, including mandatory access controls (MAC). What is SELinux Permissive Domain? SELinux Permissive Domains allow an administrator to configure a single process (domain) to run permissive, rather than making the whole system permissive. Ansible Enable or Disable Permissive Domain in SELinux policy - `community.general.selinux_permissive` - Change permissive domain in SELinux policy Today we're talking about Ansible module `selinux_permissive`. The full name is `community.general.selinux_permissive`, which means that is part of the collection of modules to community-supported for Ansible. It supports a huge variety of Linux distributions and it changes the permissive domain in SELinux policy. It requires the `policycoreutils-python` package installed on the target system for `semanage` utility. Parameters - **domain** (name) string - the name of the domain - **permissive** boolean - no/yes - no_reload boolean - **no**/yes Let's see the parameter of the selinux_permissive Ansible module. The only mandatory parameters are "domain" and "permissive". The parameter "domain" or alias "name" specifies the name of the SELinux domain that we would add to the list of permissive domains. The parameter "permissive" allows you to enable or disable the SELinux permissive domain immediately in the running system. The parameter "no_reload" disables the policy reloading after a change of the setting. Default is "no", which causes the reloading of the policy. Links - https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/community/general/selinux_permissive_module.html - https://selinuxproject.org/page/PermissiveDomainRecipe - https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/semanage-keep-selinux-enforcing ## Playbook Enable or Disable Permissive Domain in SELinux policy on Linux with Ansible Playbook. code ```yaml --- - name: selinux_permissive module Playbook hosts: all become: true tasks: - name: semanage present ansible.builtin.package: name: "policycoreutils-python-utils" state: present - name: Change the httpd_t domain to permissive community.general.selinux_permissive: name: httpd_t permissive: true ``` execution ```bash $ ansible-playbook -i virtualmachines/demo/inventory selinux/selinux_permissivedomain.yml PLAY [selinux_permissive module Playbook] ************************************************************* TASK [Gathering Facts] **************************************************************************** ok: [demo.example.com] TASK [semanage present] *************************************************************************** changed: [demo.example.com] TASK [Change the httpd_t domain to permissive] **************************************************** changed: [demo.example.com] PLAY RECAP ****************************