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MAC_PORTACL(4)		 BSD Kernel Interfaces Manual		MAC_PORTACL(4)

NAME
     mac_portacl -- network port access	control	policy

SYNOPSIS
     To	compile	the port access	control	policy into your kernel, place the
     following lines in	your kernel configuration file:

	   options MAC
	   options MAC_PORTACL

     Alternately, to load the port access control policy module	at boot	time,
     place the following line in your kernel configuration file:

	   options MAC

     and in loader.conf(5):

	   mac_portacl_load="YES"

DESCRIPTION
     The mac_portacl policy allows administrators to administratively limit
     binding to	local UDP and TCP ports	via the	sysctl(8) interface.

     In	order to enable	the mac_portacl	policy,	MAC policy must	be enforced on
     sockets (see mac(4)), and the port(s) protected by	mac_portacl must not
     be	included in the	range specified	by the
     net.inet.ip.portrange.reservedlow and net.inet.ip.portrange.reservedhigh
     sysctl(8) MIBs.

     The mac_portacl policy only affects ports explicitly bound	by a user
     process (either for a listen/outgoing TCP socket, or a send/receive UDP
     socket).  This policy will	not limit ports	bound implicitly for outgoing
     connections where the process has not explicitly selected a port: these
     are automatically selected	by the IP stack.

     When mac_portacl is enabled, it will control binding access to ports up
     to	the port number	set in the security.mac.portacl.port_high sysctl(8)
     variable.	By default, all	attempts to bind to mac_portacl	controlled
     ports will	fail if	not explicitly allowed by the port access control
     list, though binding by the superuser will	be allowed, if the sysctl(8)
     variable security.mac.portacl.suser_exempt	is set to a non-zero value.

   Runtime Configuration
     The following sysctl(8) MIBs are available	for fine-tuning	the enforce-
     ment of this MAC policy.  All sysctl(8) variables,	except
     security.mac.portacl.rules, can also be set as loader(8) tunables in
     loader.conf(5).

     security.mac.portacl.enabled
	     Enforce the mac_portacl policy.  (Default:	1).

     security.mac.portacl.port_high
	     The highest port number mac_portacl will enforce rules for.  (De-
	     fault: 1023).

     security.mac.portacl.rules
	     The port access control list is specified in the following	for-
	     mat:

		   idtype:id:protocol:port[,idtype:id:protocol:port,...]

	     idtype    Describes the type of subject match to be performed.
		       Either uid for user ID matching,	or gid for group ID
		       matching.

	     id	       The user	or group ID (depending on idtype) allowed to
		       bind to the specified port.  NOTE: User and group names
		       are not valid; only the actual ID numbers may be	used.

	     protocol  Describes which protocol	this entry applies to.	Either
		       tcp or udp are supported.

	     port      Describes which port this entry applies to.  NOTE: MAC
		       security	policies may not override other	security sys-
		       tem policies by allowing	accesses that they may deny,
		       such as net.inet.ip.portrange.reservedlow /
		       net.inet.ip.portrange.reservedhigh.  If the specified
		       port falls within the range specified, the mac_portacl
		       entry will not function (i.e., even the specified
		       user/group may not be able to bind to the specified
		       port).

     security.mac.portacl.suser_exempt
	     Allow superuser (i.e., root) to bind to all mac_portacl protected
	     ports, even if the	port access control list does not explicitly
	     allow this.  (Default: 1).

     security.mac.portacl.autoport_exempt
	     Allow applications	to use automatic binding to port 0.  Applica-
	     tions use port 0 as a request for automatic port allocation when
	     binding an	IP address to a	socket.	 This tunable will exempt port
	     0 allocation from rule checking.  (Default: 1).

SEE ALSO
     mac(3), ip(4), mac_biba(4), mac_bsdextended(4), mac_ifoff(4), mac_mls(4),
     mac_none(4), mac_partition(4), mac_seeotheruids(4), mac_test(4), mac(9)

HISTORY
     MAC first appeared	in FreeBSD 5.0 and mac_portacl first appeared in
     FreeBSD 5.1.

AUTHORS
     This software was contributed to the FreeBSD Project by NAI Labs, the Se-
     curity Research Division of Network Associates Inc. under DARPA/SPAWAR
     contract N66001-01-C-8035 ("CBOSS"), as part of the DARPA CHATS research
     program.

BSD			       December	9, 2004				   BSD

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