Digi Control documentation

Digi Control documentation

Security, integrity and safe repair

SELinux, permissions, checksums, trust, capabilities and drift.

What it covers

  • The security view combines SELinux mode/contexts, permission baseline, module integrity, runtime-state checksums, trust, capabilities and access policy.
  • The permission baseline shows expected owner/group/mode and drift; safe repair is allow-listed and supports dry-run.
  • Important state is written atomically and has checksums; damaged state is preserved for recovery, not empty overwrite.
  • Module integrity checks manifests, files, services/binaries and trust.

How to use it

  1. Run audit/dry-run.
  2. Review the exact drift.
  3. Apply safe repair.
  4. Re-evaluate integrity.
  5. Review audit.

Important rules

  • Do not disable SELinux as a universal fix.
  • Admin does not bypass confirmations/locks/source policy.
  • Integrity failure can hide/block a module.