selogin – Manages linux user to SELinux user mapping

New in version 2.8.

Synopsis

• Manages linux user to SELinux user mapping

Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

• libselinux

• policycoreutils

Parameters

Parameter	Choices/Defaults	Comments
ignore_selinux_state boolean	Choices: no ← yes	Run independent of selinux runtime state
login - / required		a Linux user
reload -	Default: "yes"	Reload SELinux policy after commit.
selevel -	Default: "s0"	MLS/MCS Security Range (MLS/MCS Systems only) SELinux Range for SELinux login mapping defaults to the SELinux user record range. aliases: serange
seuser - / required		SELinux user name
state - / required	Choices: present ← absent	Desired mapping value.

Notes

Note

• The changes are persistent across reboots

• Not tested on any debian based system

Examples

# Modify the default user on the system to the guest_u user
- selogin:
    login: __default__
    seuser: guest_u
    state: present

# Assign gijoe user on an MLS machine a range and to the staff_u user
- selogin:
    login: gijoe
    seuser: staff_u
    serange: SystemLow-Secret
    state: present

# Assign all users in the engineering group to the staff_u user
- selogin:
    login: '%engineering'
    seuser: staff_u
    state: present

Status

• This module is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface. [preview]

• This module is maintained by the Ansible Community. [community]

Authors

• Dan Keder (@dankeder)

• Petr Lautrbach (@bachradsusi)

• James Cassell (@jamescassell)

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