How To Install fapolicyd on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fapolicyd on CentOS 8.
What is fapolicyd
Fapolicyd (File Access Policy Daemon) implements application whitelisting to decide file access rights. Applications that are known via a reputation source are allowed access while unknown applications are not. The daemon makes use of the kernel’s fanotify interface to determine file access rights.
We can use yum or dnf to install fapolicyd on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install fapolicyd.
Install fapolicyd on CentOS 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install fapolicyd using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install fapolicyd
Install fapolicyd on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install fapolicyd using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install fapolicyd
How To Uninstall fapolicyd on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the fapolicyd package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove fapolicyd
fapolicyd Package Contents on CentOS 8
/etc/fapolicyd
/etc/fapolicyd/fapolicyd.conf
/etc/fapolicyd/fapolicyd.rules
/etc/fapolicyd/fapolicyd.trust
/run/fapolicyd
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/73
/usr/lib/.build-id/73/0c5d0a3b9f2f265dc11118f6ba0eb0c17e91a8
/usr/lib/.build-id/f2
/usr/lib/.build-id/f2/0a22fd5597899763d902afb420e68406c2b9c1
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/dnf-plugins/__pycache__/fapolicyd-dnf-plugin.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/dnf-plugins/__pycache__/fapolicyd-dnf-plugin.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/dnf-plugins/fapolicyd-dnf-plugin.py
/usr/lib/systemd/system/fapolicyd.service
/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/fapolicyd.conf
/usr/sbin/fapolicyd
/usr/sbin/fapolicyd-cli
/usr/share/doc/fapolicyd
/usr/share/doc/fapolicyd/README.md
/usr/share/fapolicyd
/usr/share/fapolicyd/fapolicyd-magic.mgc
/usr/share/fapolicyd/fapolicyd.rules.known-libs
/usr/share/fapolicyd/fapolicyd.rules.restrictive
/usr/share/licenses/fapolicyd
/usr/share/licenses/fapolicyd/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/fapolicyd-cli.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/fapolicyd.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/fapolicyd.rules.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/fapolicyd.trust.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/fapolicyd.8.gz
/var/lib/fapolicyd
/var/lib/fapolicyd/data.mdb
/var/lib/fapolicyd/lock.mdb
/var/log/fapolicyd-access.log
/var/run/fapolicyd/fapolicyd.fifo
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fapolicyd on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.