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Date:      Mon, 20 Aug 2018 17:02:03 +0200
From:      Stefan Bethke <stb@lassitu.de>
To:        Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.net>
Cc:        FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Bind to port <1024 in jail
Message-ID:  <89646FDB-F1A9-4070-87EC-22C0CFAFF4E7@lassitu.de>
In-Reply-To: <6bfc8608-946d-39eb-cc57-88b3dc3bd7c5@grosbein.net>
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Am 20.08.2018 um 16:59 schrieb Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.net>:
> 
> 20.08.2018 21:47, Stefan Bethke wrote:
> 
>> I have a Go program (acme-dns) that wants to bind 53, 80, and 443, and I’d rather have it run as a non-privileged user.  The program doesn’t provide a facility to drop privs after binding the ports. I’m planning to run it in a jail.
>> 
>> After some googling, it appears that a couple of years ago I should have been able to do:
>> sysctl net.inet.ip.portrange.reservedhigh=0
>> and allow all processes to bind to „low“ ports. This does not work in my jails on a 11-stable host.
>> 
>> $ sudo sysctl net.inet.ip.portrange.reservedhigh=0
>> net.inet.ip.portrange.reservedhigh: 1023
>> sysctl: net.inet.ip.portrange.reservedhigh=0: Operation not permitted
>> 
>> Securelevel should not interfere:
>> $ sysctl kern.securelevel
>> kern.securelevel: -1
>> 
>> Is there a way to allow regular processes to bind to low ports?
> 
> Yes. Just use mac_portacl kernel module: kldload mac_portacl
> 
> Once loaded, it duplicates net.inet.ip.portrange.reservedhigh protection
> with its own security.mac.portacl.port_high, so it's safe to disable
> "reservedhigh" for whole system by running sysctl net.inet.ip.portrange.reservedhigh=0
> for host.
> 
> The trick is that mac_portacl provides a way to selectively give permission for non-root UID
> to bind low ports:
> 
> security.mac.portacl.rules=uid:88:tcp:80,uid:88:tcp:443,uid:53:tcp:53,uid:53:udp:53
> 
> It works just fine for a host and I use it for name servers utilizing port 53
> for a box with dynamically created interfaces, so it may bind the port for distinct IP addresses
> after it dropped privilegies when new interface is created and get new IP assigned.
> 
> I have not tried it for a jails, though. Please try and respond.

Thanks, but do I understand correctly that the security.mac.portacl.rules are system-wide and not per-jail?

I’m running ~10 jails on this host, and I don’t want to allow all of them to bind to low ports.


Stefan

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