Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2017 08:47:44 +0200 From: Borja Marcos <borjam@sarenet.es> To: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> Cc: "freebsd-fs@freebsd.org" <freebsd-fs@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: protecting zfs snapshot info Message-ID: <52984307-2C6C-454C-A69B-15FB4AE01E1B@sarenet.es> In-Reply-To: <d7fa3f0c-e00a-9c41-5430-1f381f71d3e0@sentex.net>
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> On 12 Aug 2017, at 19:14, Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> wrote: > > > Is there a way in zfs to protect non root users from seeing snapshots ? > lets say a user makes a permissions mistake on a sensitive homedirectory > on a Monday AM that is not discovered until the next day. If there are > a whole mess of snapshots created between those two points in time, > there is no way to protect that directory without deleting the snapshots. Good question and it’s a problem indeed. The .zfs directory is always created and it can be hidden but it’s still accessible. It’s a security problem that prevents an effective access revocation for a directory/file, I guess that’s what you mean. Ideally, datasets should have a property preventing the snapshots to be auto mounted when the relevant .zfs/snapshot directory was accessed or even preventing the creation of .zfs. Alternatively there could be a specific zfs permission covering this, like a “snapaccess” for snapshot access or “snapmount” for automatic mounting of snapshots, but it’s more complicated to do. Borja.home | help
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