Fedora 32 : Can be better? part 007.

Another article in the Can be better? series that deals with a very popular feature called SELinux. Here that in this seventh part I will introduce you to the world of SELinux in my own style of simply explaining some SElinux configurations.
Let's recap some basic elements specific to SELinux.
Multi Category Security or MCS is a discretionary implementation of the mandatory Multi Level Security
MCS basically tries to use the MLS attributes: Security Levels and Security Compartments.
MCS implemented have one or more extra fields in their Security Context tuple: user_u:role_r:type_t:s0:c0.
You can see this with id -Z.
The MLS Range contains two components, the low (classification and compartments) and high (clearance).
sensitivity label build from the low component: s2 with c1, c2 ...
MCS does have 1024 categories that can be assigned to processes and files.
On an MLS system are two special labels, SystemLow(s0) and SystemHigh (s15:c0.c255).
The upper end of the MCS range is in an MCS environment s0:c0.c1023 is SystemHigh.
By default, everything in an MCS environment has access to SystemLow or s0.
You will able to access files with s0:c122 and s0:c123 categories.
The MLS translation mechanism to give a more literal meaning to the machine-like policy used in the MLS sensitivity and category declaration.
The MLS rule says: "no read up and no write down".
The MLS model is used to enforce confidentiality.
All processes that are forced to operate with Security Level.
The s0 Security Level or SystemLow level is the lower end of the Security Level Range in an MLS environment.
If you do not have the correct configurations then the SELinux setting operation for Enforcing could generate errors in the linux operation after reboot or during Linux operation.
You will need to have the root password and return for new SELinux settings.
Let's solve this issue: put SELinux into Enforce mode but give my user possibility to use command sudo su.
First, you need to see this table:

SELinux user	Description	Used for
unconfined_u	SELinux user meant for unrestricted users. Unconfined users have hardly any restrictions in a SELinux context and are meant for systems where only Internet-facing services should run confined (i.e. the targeted SELinux policy store).	All users on a targeted system
root	The SELinux user meant for the root account	The Linux root account
sysadm_u	SELinux user with direct system administrative role assigned	Linux accounts that only perform administrative tasks
staff_u	SELinux user for operators that need to run both non-administrative commands (through the staff_r role) and administrative commands (through the sysadm_r role).	Linux accounts used for both end user usage as well as administrative tasks
user_u	SELinux user for non-privileged accounts	Unprivileged Linux accounts
system_u	Special SELinux user meant for system services	Not used directly

Is need to change my user mythcat to staff_u with a good MLS Range.

[root@desk mythcat]# semanage login --modify --seuser staff_u --range s2:c100 mythcat
[root@desk mythcat]# semanage login --modify --seuser staff_u --range s0-s15:c0.c1023 mythcat
[root@desk mythcat]# semanage login -l 
[root@desk mythcat]# setenforce enforcing
[root@desk mythcat]# getenforce
Enforcing
[root@desk mythcat]# semanage login -l 
ValueError: Cannot read policy store.

After reboot need some time to load the new changes, first is the last configuration.

[mythcat@desk ~]$ semanage login -l
ValueError: SELinux policy is not managed or store cannot be accessed.
[mythcat@desk ~]$ id -Z
staff_u:staff_r:staff_t:s0-s15:c0.c1023
[mythcat@desk ~]$ sestatus 
SELinux status: enabled
SELinuxfs mount: /sys/fs/selinux
SELinux root directory: /etc/selinux
Loaded policy name: mls
Current mode: permissive
Mode from config file: permissive
Policy MLS status: enabled
Policy deny_unknown status: denied
Memory protection checking: actual (secure)
Max kernel policy version: 33

Few seconds later all is good:

[mythcat@desk ~]$ sudo su 
[sudo] password for mythcat: 
bash: /root/.bashrc: Permission denied
bash-5.0# ls
bash-5.0# sestatus 
SELinux status: enabled
SELinuxfs mount: /sys/fs/selinux
SELinux root directory: /etc/selinux
Loaded policy name: mls
Current mode: enforcing
Mode from config file: permissive
Policy MLS status: enabled
Policy deny_unknown status: denied
Memory protection checking: actual (secure)
Max kernel policy version: 33
bash-5.0# id -Z
staff_u:staff_r:staff_t:s0-s15:c0.c1023
bash-5.0# exit 
exit
[mythcat@desk ~]$ sestatus 
SELinux status: enabled
SELinuxfs mount: /sys/fs/selinux
SELinux root directory: /etc/selinux
Loaded policy name: mls
Current mode: enforcing
Mode from config file: permissive
Policy MLS status: enabled
Policy deny_unknown status: denied
Memory protection checking: actual (secure)
Max kernel policy version: 33

Everything is fine for now, this delay is the reason for using the selinux kernel settings. More information about Multi-Level Security and Multi-Category Security can be found on this webpage.