default_type(5)

default_type5

The selinux default type configuration file

Overview

The default_type file contains entries that allow SELinux-aware applications such as newrole(1) to select a default type for a role if one is not supplied.

selinux_default_type_path(3) will return the active policy path to this file. The default, default type file is:

/etc/selinux/{SELINUXTYPE}/contexts/default_type

Where {SELINUXTYPE} is the entry from the selinux configuration file config (see selinux_config(5)).

get_default_type(3) reads this file to determine a type for the active policy.

File format

Each line within the default_type file is formatted with role:type entries where:

role

The SELinux role.

type

The domain type that is returned for this role.

Examples

# ./contexts/default_type
auditadm_r:auditadm_t
user_r:user_t

Releases

7 releases since Debian 7 (Wheezy); the text changed 1 time.

  1. 7
  2. 8–13

From selinux-utils 3.8.1-1 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.