community.general.seport module – Manages SELinux network port type definitions

Note

This module is part of the community.general collection (version 9.5.0).

You might already have this collection installed if you are using the ansible package. It is not included in ansible-core. To check whether it is installed, run ansible-galaxy collection list.

To install it, use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.general. You need further requirements to be able to use this module, see Requirements for details.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.general.seport.

Synopsis

  • Manages SELinux network port type definitions.

Requirements

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

  • libselinux-python
  • policycoreutils-python

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

ignore_selinux_state

boolean

Run independent of selinux runtime state

Choices:

  • false ← (default)
  • true

local

boolean

added in community.general 5.6.0

Work with local modifications only.

Choices:

  • false ← (default)
  • true

ports

list / elements=string / required

Ports or port ranges.

Can be a list (since 2.6) or comma separated string.

proto

string / required

Protocol for the specified port.

Choices:

  • "tcp"
  • "udp"

reload

boolean

Reload SELinux policy after commit.

Choices:

  • false
  • true ← (default)

setype

string / required

SELinux type for the specified port.

state

string

Desired boolean value.

Choices:

  • "absent"
  • "present" ← (default)

Attributes

Attribute

Support

Description

check_mode

Support: full

Can run in check_mode and return changed status prediction without modifying target.

diff_mode

Support: none

Will return details on what has changed (or possibly needs changing in check_mode), when in diff mode.

Notes

Note

  • The changes are persistent across reboots.
  • Not tested on any debian based system.

Examples

- name: Allow Apache to listen on tcp port 8888
  community.general.seport:
    ports: 8888
    proto: tcp
    setype: http_port_t
    state: present

- name: Allow sshd to listen on tcp port 8991
  community.general.seport:
    ports: 8991
    proto: tcp
    setype: ssh_port_t
    state: present

- name: Allow memcached to listen on tcp ports 10000-10100 and 10112
  community.general.seport:
    ports: 10000-10100,10112
    proto: tcp
    setype: memcache_port_t
    state: present

- name: Allow memcached to listen on tcp ports 10000-10100 and 10112
  community.general.seport:
    ports:
      - 10000-10100
      - 10112
    proto: tcp
    setype: memcache_port_t
    state: present

- name: Remove tcp port 22 local modification if exists
  community.general.seport:
    ports: 22
    protocol: tcp
    setype: ssh_port_t
    state: absent
    local: true

Authors

  • Dan Keder (@dankeder)

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Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/community/general/seport_module.html