Getting More Information

SELinux is complex. You can obtain information about different policies more easily by installing the selinux-policy-doc package and then navigating the associated manual pages.

  1. Install the package:
    sudo dnf install -y selinux-policy-doc
  2. Update the manual page database:
    sudo mandb
  3. Start searching through the new SELinux policy manual pages. To get a complete listing of all the SELinux manual documentation, run:
    man -k _selinux

The policy documentation contains information about users and roles. For example, you can read more about the SELinux unprivileged user_u user and the user_r role in the user_selinux(8) manual page. The policy documentation outlines the restrictions applied for different security contexts and what Boolean options are available to you to customize the policy for an environment.