NAME

       sesearch - SELinux policy query tool

SYNOPSIS

       sesearch [OPTIONS] RULE_TYPE [RULE_TYPE ...] [EXPRESSION] [POLICY ...]

DESCRIPTION

       sesearch allows the user to search the rules in a SELinux policy.

POLICY

       sesearch supports loading a SELinux policy in one of four formats.

       source A single text file containing policy source for versions 12 through 21. This file is usually named
              policy.conf.

       binary A single file containing a monolithic kernel binary policy for versions 15 through 21.  This  file
              is usually named by version - for example, policy.20.

       modular
              A  list  of policy packages each containing a loadable policy module. The first module listed must
              be a base module.

       policy list
              A single text file containing all the information needed to load a  policy,  usually  exported  by
              SETools graphical utilities.

       If  no  policy file is provided, sesearch will search for the system default policy: checking first for a
       source policy, next for a binary policy matching the running kernel's preferred version, and finally  for
       the  highest  version  that can be found.  In the latter case, the policy will be downgraded to match the
       running system.  If no policy can be found, sesearch will print an error message and exit.

RULE TYPE OPTIONS

       sesearch is capable of searching multiple types of rules. At least one of the following must be  provided
       to specify the desired type(s) of rules to search.

       -A, --allow
              Search for allow rules.

       --neverallow
              Search for neverallow rules.

       --auditallow
              Search for auditallow rules.

       --dontaudit
              Search for dontaudit rules.

       -T, --type
              Search for type_transition, type_member, and type_change rules.

       --role_allow
              Search for role allow rules.

       --role_trans
              Search for role_transition rules.

       --range_trans
              Search for range_transition rules.

       --all  Search all rule types.

EXPRESSIONS

       The  user  may specify an expression containing values for a given field(s) in a rule.  Only those fields
       applicable to a given rule type  will  be  used;  all  other  fields  will  be  ignored.   (For  example,
       type_transition  rules  will  ignore the permissions field.)  If no expression is specified or if none of
       the specified fields apply to a given rule type, all rules of that  type  are  considered  to  match  the
       expression.

       -s NAME, --source=NAME
              Find rules with type/attribute NAME as their source.

       -t NAME, --target=NAME
              Find rules with type/attribute NAME as their target.

       -D NAME, --default=NAME
              Find rules with type NAME as their default.

       --role_source=NAME
              Find rules with role NAME as their source.

       --role_target=NAME
              Find rules with role NAME as their target.

       -c NAME, --class=NAME
              Find rules with class NAME as their object class.

       -p P1[,P2,...] --perm=P1[,P2...]
              Find  rules with at least one of the specified permissions.  Multiple permissions may be specified
              as a comma separated list; it is recommended that this list be quoted for  shells  that  interpret
              comma as a special character.

       -b NAME, --bool=NAME
              Find  conditional rules with NAME in their conditional expression.  This option will include rules
              in both the true and false lists of the conditional.

OPTIONS

       The following additional options exist  to  modify  how  the  search  is  performed  and  the  amount  of
       information printed for each result.

       -d, --direct
              Normally  rules  are  matched  using  the  type  given  or  any  of  that type's attributes (or an
              attribute's types).  This "indirect" matching also considers types used in complemented sets,  the
              special  set  "*", and the special target "self".  When the direct flag is given, matching is done
              literally.  The rule must explicitly contain the given type (or attribute) for it to be returned.

       -R, --regex
              Use regular expressions to match symbol names.  By default  only  exact  string  matches  will  be
              considered.

       -n, --linenum
              Print  the line number for each rule.  This option is ignored if using the --semantic option or if
              line numbers are not available for the given policy.

       -S, --semantic
              Search rules semantically instead of syntactically. This option is implied for policies for  which
              syntactic rules are not available.

       -C, --show_cond
              Print  the  conditional  expression and state for all conditional rules found.  This option has no
              effect on unconditional rules.

       -h, --help
              Print help information and exit.

       -V, --version
              Print version information and exit.

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by Jeremy A. Mowery <jmowery@tresys.com>.

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright(C) 2003-2008 Tresys Technology, LLC

BUGS

       Please report bugs via an email to setools-bugs@tresys.com.

SEE ALSO

       seinfo(1), apol(1)

                                                                                                     sesearch(1)