semanage_seuser(3) — Linux manual page

NAME \| SYNOPSIS \| Record API Overview \| Properties API Overview \| Record Store API Overview \| COLOPHON

semanage_seuser(3)    Libsemanage API documentation    semanage_seuser(3)

NAME top

       semanage_seuser - Linux UID to SELinux User Management API

SYNOPSIS top

       #include <semanage/seuser_record.h>
       #include <semanage/seusers_policy.h>
       #include <semanage/seusers_local.h>

       This object contains properties associated with a Unix user.
       Typically many Unix users are mapped to the same SELinux user. See
       semanage_user(3) for overview of the SELinux user API.

       For details on a specific function, see its manual page.

Record API Overview top


       semanage_seuser_create(3)-
              create a seuser

       semanage_seuser_free(3)-
              release resources for this seuser

       semanage_seuser_key_create(3)-
              create a key, which can be used to identify a seuser

       semanage_seuser_key_free(3)-
              release resources for this seuser key

       semanage_seuser_key_extract(3)-
              create a key matching this seuser

       semanage_seuser_clone(3)-
              create an identical seuser (deep-copy clone)

       semanage_seuser_compare(3)-
              compare this seuser to the provided key

       semanage_seuser_compare2(3)-
              compare this seuser to another

Properties API Overview top


       semanage_seuser_get_name(3)-
              return the name of this seuser

       semanage_user_set_name(3)-
              set the name of this seuser

       semanage_seuser_get_sename(3)-
              return the name of the (SELinux) user mapped to this seuser

       semanage_user_set_sename(3)-
              set the name of the (SELinux) user mapped to this seuser

       semanage_user_get_mlsrange(3)-
              return a the range of valid MLS sensitivities and
              categories for this user

       semanage_user_set_mlsrange(3)-
              set the range of valid MLS sensitivities and categories for
              this user

Record Store API Overview top


       semanage_seuser_modify_local(3)-
              add or update a seuser in the local store

       semanage_seuser_del_local(3)-
              delete a seuser from the local store

       semanage_seuser_exists(3)-
              check if a seuser is defined in the persistent policy

       semanage_seuser_exists_local(3)-
              check if a seuser is defined in the local store

       semanage_seuser_query(3)-
              query a seuser in the persistent policy

       semanage_seuser_query_local(3)-
              query a seuser in the local store

       semanage_seuser_count(3)-
              count the number of seusers defined in the persistent
              policy

       semanage_seuser_count_local(3)-
              count the number of seusers defined in the local store

       semanage_seuser_iterate(3)-
              execute a callback for each seuser in the persistent policy

       semanage_seuser_iterate_local(3)-
              execute a callback for each seuser in the local store

       semanage_seuser_list(3)-
              return an array containing all seusers in the persistent
              policy

       semanage_seuser_list_local(3)-
              return an array containing all seusers in the local store

COLOPHON top

       This page is part of the selinux (Security-Enhanced Linux user-
       space libraries and tools) project.  Information about the project
       can be found at ⟨https://github.com/SELinuxProject/selinux/wiki⟩.
       If you have a bug report for this manual page, see
       ⟨https://github.com/SELinuxProject/selinux/wiki/Contributing⟩.
       This page was obtained from the project's upstream Git repository
       ⟨https://github.com/SELinuxProject/selinux⟩ on 2025-08-11.  (At
       that time, the date of the most recent commit that was found in
       the repository was 2025-08-04.)  If you discover any rendering
       problems in this HTML version of the page, or you believe there is
       a better or more up-to-date source for the page, or you have
       corrections or improvements to the information in this COLOPHON
       (which is not part of the original manual page), send a mail to
       man-pages@man7.org

ivg2@cornell.edu              16 March 2006            semanage_seuser(3)

Pages that refer to this page: semanage_user(3)