Information about the package, policycoreutils, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The policycoreutils package is designed for, SELinux policy core utilities.
Package Name:
policycoreutils
Summary:
SELinux policy core utilities
Description:
Security-enhanced Linux is a feature of the Linux® kernel and a number of utilities with enhanced security functionality designed to add mandatory access controls to Linux. The Security-enhanced Linux kernel contains new architectural components originally developed to improve the security of the Flask operating system. These architectural components provide general support for the enforcement of many kinds of mandatory access control policies, including those based on the concepts of Type Enforcement®, Role-based Access Control, and Multi-level Security. policycoreutils contains the policy core utilities that are required for basic operation of a SELinux system. These utilities include load_policy to load policies, setfiles to label filesystems, newrole to switch roles, and run_init to run /etc/init.d scripts in the proper context.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
2.0.83
Release:
30.1.el6_8
Size:
3.4 M
Repository:
installed
From Repository:
updates
Licence:
GPLv2+
Control the policycoreutils package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install policycoreutils
This command will install policycoreutils on the server.
yum remove policycoreutils
This command will un-install policycoreutils on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove policycoreutils, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove policycoreutils
This command will un-install policycoreutils on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove policycoreutils when using the -y flag.
yum update policycoreutils
This command will update policycoreutils to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove policycoreutils, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update policycoreutils
This command will update policycoreutils to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove policycoreutils when using the -y flag.
yum info policycoreutils
This command will show you core information about the policycoreutils package.
yum deplist policycoreutils
This command will show you the dependencies for policycoreutils. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update policycoreutils
This command will check if there is an update waiting on policycoreutils. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.