refpolicy VS selinux-policy-arch

Compare refpolicy vs selinux-policy-arch and see what are their differences.

selinux-policy-arch

SELinux policy with Arch Linux specific changes. Based on the refrence policy (by archlinuxhardened)
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refpolicy selinux-policy-arch
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4 days ago 7 months ago
Python Python
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refpolicy

Posts with mentions or reviews of refpolicy. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-04-26.
  • SELinux policies for Alpine Linux
    1 project | /r/linuxadmin | 25 Oct 2023
    Distributions often start with the SELinux reference policy rather than starting from scratch.
  • SELinux is unmanageable; just turn it off if it gets in your way
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Apr 2022
    really? I don't mean understand how to apply a new label. I mean understand what the policies are and how they work, be able to create new ones that apply to you, and verify that the ones given to you by the distro are correct for your use. You're saying this is not hard to understand: https://github.com/SELinuxProject/refpolicy/blob/master/poli... ?

    Otherwise you are blindly applying some black box.

  • Which SELinux policy should you use?
    2 projects | /r/archlinux | 10 Feb 2022
    selinux-refpolicy-src pulls from the original SELinux Project refpolicy repo and just install-src these, which just places all policies into appropriate directory and does nothing futher, i. e. doesn't compile them to make usable
  • Need help writing rules, please
    1 project | /r/selinux | 17 May 2021
    https://github.com/SELinuxProject/refpolicy/blob/4412ad507c5880d9ff52fd376c23183cc9ae10b7/policy/support/misc_patterns.spt#L55
  • Wayland Keylogger (2021)
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Jan 2021
    Of those distributions, only Fedora sets SELinux to enforcing by default. Moreover, AFAIK Fedora (+ RHEL and Android) are the only distributions that had wide testing of the reference policy [1] [2]. So, if you enable SELinux with the reference policy on the other distributions that you mention, it is likely that you will run into all kinds of issues.

    [1] https://github.com/SELinuxProject/refpolicy

    [2] https://github.com/fedora-selinux/selinux-policy

  • Switching from CentOS/RHEL to openSUSE as main enterprise OS, experiencies and general tips?
    1 project | /r/openSUSE | 2 Jan 2021
    No default or reference policy is provided in openSUSE Leap. SELinux will not operate without a policy, so you must build and install one. The SELinux Reference Policy Project (https://github.com/SELinuxProject/refpolicy/wiki) should be helpful in providing examples and detailed information on creating your own policies, and this chapter also provides guidance on managing your SELinux policy.
  • Is this legit? SELinux is preventing login from getattr access on the filesystem /dev/shm.
    1 project | /r/selinux | 21 Dec 2020
    Interesting. I don't have a red hat based system handy at the moment to compare since I'm on holiday. Maybe that's just how they set up shm? If you compare to Reference Policy, it appears that the getattr permission you asked about is granted there: https://github.com/SELinuxProject/refpolicy/blob/8a1bc98a31a9f2396f3c1389f43ffb10df31157f/policy/modules/system/systemd.te#L600

selinux-policy-arch

Posts with mentions or reviews of selinux-policy-arch. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-02-10.
  • Which SELinux policy should you use?
    2 projects | /r/archlinux | 10 Feb 2022
    selinux-refpolicy-arch pulls from Arch's own repo, which I guess contains some more specific details, related to Arch to make the whole experience smoother, and also compiles them into usable binaries

What are some alternatives?

When comparing refpolicy and selinux-policy-arch you can also consider the following projects:

wayland-keylogger - Proof-of-concept Wayland keylogger

dind - Docker in Docker

discovery-engine - Discover least permissive security posture, Network Microsegmentation, and Application behaviour based on visibility/observability data emitted from policy engines..

cascade - A high level language for SELinux policy

tiny-snitch - an interactive firewall for inbound and outbound connections

sysbox - An open-source, next-generation "runc" that empowers rootless containers to run workloads such as Systemd, Docker, Kubernetes, just like VMs.

firejail - Linux namespaces and seccomp-bpf sandbox

libdropprivs - Example code (will be library) for dropping privileges

opensnitch - OpenSnitch is a GNU/Linux interactive application firewall inspired by Little Snitch.

systemd - The systemd System and Service Manager

demo-python - Demo of using Cerbos with Python to check access to a holiday request system.