user_contexts

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 policy path:

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:

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:

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

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)

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