Two more cases of the manager writing directly into the container-owned
/libreportal-containers tree (same class as the regen-poll stamp), both masked
by a '✓ Success' that printed anyway:
- Password replacers (config/password/*): used 'runInstallOp sed -i' (manager)
on app configs copied into the container tree, so sed -i EACCES'd its temp
file and the substitution silently failed — the adguard.config 'couldn't open
temporary file', leaving the literal RANDOMIZEDPASSWORD placeholder. Added
runCfgOp (picks runFileOp vs runInstallOp by the target file's location) and
routed every $file grep/sed/awk through it: password, username, hex, vapid,
appkey, and bcrypt.
- Updater generator (webui_updater_scan): 'runFileOp cp <manager-tmp>' can't
read the manager's 0600 mktemp as the container user, so it fell through to a
manager 'cp' that EACCES'd on the container-owned out_dir. Switched the three
writes to 'runFileWrite < tmp' (manager shell reads the tmp; container user
tees the write).
Both deploy via the normal quick path (relocatable scripts) — no footprint bump,
no reinstall.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: librelad <librelad@digitalangels.vip>
CrowdSec's host-side install (the agent + nftables bouncer the LibrePortal
Traefik plugin talks to) had stayed on blanket sudo throughout the rootless +
de-sudo hardening: `sudo apt-get install crowdsec`, `curl | sudo bash`,
`sudo sed -i /etc/crowdsec/config.yaml`, `sudo touch + sudo chmod /var/log/
crowdsec*.log`, `echo $key | sudo tee /etc/crowdsec/traefik_bouncer.key`,
plus `sudo cscli capi register / console enroll / bouncers add`. None of
those are in the scoped LP_HELPERS / LP_SYSTEM sudoers grant the manager
now holds, so any user who enabled crowdsec would have hit hard sudo
failures on every privileged step.
Follow the libreportal-appcfg / libreportal-bininstall pattern: one new
root-owned helper at /usr/local/lib/libreportal/libreportal-crowdsec
that does every privileged op behind a fixed action vocabulary with strict
argument validation. The manager calls in via runCrowdsec — the scoped
sudoers grants exactly one binary, the same trust boundary the other
helpers rely on.
Actions:
install apt repo + agent + firewall-bouncer + enable +
crowdsecurity/{linux,sshd} collections + reload
(idempotent — skips parts already in place)
services <verb> enable | disable | restart
capi <verb> register | unregister | status
console <verb> enroll <token> | disenroll | status
token format strictly validated
bouncer-traefik-init cscli register + write the manager-owned key file
atomically (returns EXISTS or GENERATED:<key>)
bouncer-priority bouncer yaml nftables priority → -100
(moved from libreportal-appcfg; one helper for
every crowdsec root op)
bind-lapi flip listen_uri to 0.0.0.0:8080 in config.yaml
prometheus <on…|off> flip the prometheus block (validated addr/port)
touch-host-logs create + chmod 0644 /var/log/crowdsec*.log so the
libreportal container can tail them
Wired in via:
- new sudoers Cmnd_Alias entry for the helper in LP_HELPERS
- new helper baked alongside the others by initRootHelpers
(replaces __SYSTEM_DIR__ / __CONTAINERS_DIR__ / __MANAGER__ at
install, with safe runtime fallbacks if unbaked)
- new runCrowdsec dispatch in scripts/docker/command/run_privileged.sh
containers/crowdsec/scripts/crowdsec_install_host.sh now drives the whole
flow through runCrowdsec — every `sudo …` is gone, the compose-toggle sed
uses runFileOp, and the security_crowdsec CFG mirror uses runInstallOp
(configs/ is manager-owned). Net: install script shrinks ~80 lines while
gaining a single auditable trust boundary. crowdsec_fix_priority.sh swung
over to runCrowdsec bouncer-priority too — the appcfg crowdsec_priority
action drops out cleanly.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: librelad <librelad@digitalangels.vip>
runBackupOp dropped privileges to $docker_install_user with `sudo -E`,
which preserves the CALLER's environment — including HOME. The caller is
the manager (libreportal), so restic-running-as-dockerinstall ended up
with HOME=/home/libreportal and tried to mkdir
`/home/libreportal/.cache/restic` for its cache. dockerinstall can't
write into libreportal's home, so every backup ran with:
unable to open cache: mkdir /home/libreportal/.cache/restic: permission denied
twice (once in backup, once in the verify-via-scratch-restore step), with
restic falling back to a no-cache run that's a few × slower than it
should be.
Add `-H` (sudo's "reset HOME to target user's home"). Now restic sees
HOME=/home/dockerinstall, creates ~/.cache/restic there (dockerinstall
owns its own home, no help needed), and the warning is gone. Confirmed
live: a `backup app create linkding` round-trip is silent on cache, and
the dir lands at /home/dockerinstall/.cache/restic, mode 0700, correctly
owned.
All restic/borg/kopia calls funnel through runBackupOp, so this single
character fix covers every backup-tool invocation.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: librelad <librelad@digitalangels.vip>
Introduce scripts/source/paths.sh as the canonical path resolver for three
independently-relocatable roots:
LP_SYSTEM_DIR manager-owned control plane (configs/logs/install/db/ssl/ssh/migrate)
LP_CONTAINERS_DIR container-user-owned live app data
LP_BACKUPS_DIR container-user-owned backup repos (own mount-able)
Roots come from the environment when set (install bakes them; CLI/app inherit
from init.sh), else default to /libreportal-*. A transitional compat default
keeps EXISTING installs (legacy single /docker tree, by config marker) on /docker
until a deliberate reinstall, so deploying this never strands a running box.
- init.sh derives the same vars inline (self-contained for the bare /root/init.sh
reinstall case); paths.sh mirrors it for the standalone task/check processors,
which now self-locate their scripts dir and source it.
- Replace functional /docker literals with the derived vars across runtime,
install, backup, crontab, crowdsec/restic, headscale, and reinstall paths;
clean the inert '== /docker/containers/*' guard fallbacks to the variable form.
- backend: CONTAINERS_DIR now from LP_CONTAINERS_DIR (compose env, filled at
generation via a new CONTAINERS_DIR_TAG), legacy-safe default for un-recreated
containers.
- backup default path falls back to the backups root; exclude paths.sh from the
sourced-file arrays (bootstrap file, sourced explicitly).
The CLI-wrapper heredoc + root helpers still reference /docker; those get baked
in phase 3. No layout/ownership change yet (phase 2).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: librelad <librelad@digitalangels.vip>
Organise the system footprint outside /docker:
- All LibrePortal executables now live together in /usr/local/lib/libreportal/
(root:root): the 7 root helpers AND the CLI wrapper. /usr/local/bin/libreportal
becomes a symlink onto $PATH. run_privileged._runRootHelper, init.sh
(initRootHelpers + scoped-sudoers Cmnd_Alias + command setup) all point there.
The wrapper is now root-owned too (manager can't tamper with its entrypoint).
- Fix a real bug: rootless sysctl settings were written to /etc/sysctl/99-custom.conf,
a dir does NOT read, so net.ipv4.ip_unprivileged_port_start /
kernel.unprivileged_userns_clone never persisted across reboot. Moved to
/etc/sysctl.d/99-libreportal-rootless.conf (the existing
reload now actually applies them). Consistent libreportal* naming.
- Drop dead fqdn_file=/root/libreportal-fqdn.txt global (never used).
- Add FOOTPRINT.md: a manifest of every file LibrePortal places outside /docker
(doubles as an uninstall checklist).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: librelad <librelad@digitalangels.vip>
Bring the remaining deferred subsystems under the scoped sudoers, and drop
the one that's redundant.
Backup engines + app configs -> root-owned helpers (same pattern as
ownership/dns/ssh/socket/svc):
- scripts/system/libreportal-bininstall: install <restic|kopia> — does the
whole pkg-manager/signed-download install itself for a fixed, validated
engine name (no blanket sudo apt-get/install). restic_install/kopia_install
call it.
- scripts/system/libreportal-appcfg: {adguard-auth <user> <bcrypt>|
crowdsec-priority|owncloud-config <public> <host> <ip> <public_ip>} —
faithful ports of the AdGuard yaml / CrowdSec bouncer / ownCloud config.php
rewrites, fixed paths + validated args. adguard_auth/crowdsec_fix_priority/
owncloud_setup_config call it.
- run_privileged: runBinInstall / runAppCfg; init.sh installs + allowlists both.
Retire standalone (host-level) WireGuard — it's a duplicate of the
containerized containers/wireguard app (+ headscale mesh), its slirp4netns
speed rationale is largely moot with a better rootless net backend / typical
WAN-bound throughput, and it was the heaviest host-root subsystem (apt +
sysctl + iptables + /etc/wireguard), the worst fit for the rootless/
least-privilege direction:
- moved scripts/wireguard/ + manage_wireguard.sh + check_wireguard.sh to
scripts/unused/; dropped the install-path call, the Tools menu 'w' entry,
and the requirement check; removed the half-built libreportal-wg helper.
- generate_arrays.sh now also skips system/ (root-owned helpers, never
sourced); arrays regenerated (files_wireguard.sh pruned).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: librelad <librelad@digitalangels.vip>
Move the last runtime-critical root file-primitive subsystems behind
root-owned helpers so the type switcher + task service work under a scoped
sudoers:
- scripts/system/libreportal-socket: {rootless|rooted} {on|off} chmod of
the docker sockets (paths computed from config, not caller-supplied;
exit 3 = absent so the *_found flags come from its exit code)
- scripts/system/libreportal-svc: GENERATES + installs the systemd unit
from config (mode/uid/baked manager) — never accepts unit content from
the caller (arbitrary unit = root). Idempotent install/enable/restart.
- ownership helper: add db-own + app-file <app> <relpath> actions
- run_privileged: runSocket / runSvc
- set_socket_permissions -> runSocket; webui_install_systemd -> runSvc
(+ crontab cleanup runs as the manager directly, no sudo -u self)
- before_start: db chown -> runOwnership db-own; traefik cert/yml ->
runOwnership app-file (retires updateFileOwnership/changeRootOwnedFile)
- init.sh installs all five helpers
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: librelad <librelad@digitalangels.vip>
Two more runtime root file-primitive subsystems moved behind self-
validating root-owned helpers so the scoped sudoers needn't grant blanket
sudo sed/tee/cp on /etc (which is root-equivalent — sudo arg wildcards
match across '/', so even path-scoped entries are bypassable):
- scripts/system/libreportal-dns: {clear|add <ip>} — edits /etc/resolv.conf
only, validates the IP argument
- scripts/system/libreportal-ssh-access: authorized_keys + sshd
PasswordAuthentication management, with the lockout guards moved INTO the
helper (the trust boundary) so a compromised manager can't bypass them
- run_privileged: _runRootHelper dispatcher + runResolv / runSshAccess
(runOwnership now uses it too)
- init.sh: initRootHelpers installs all three helpers root:root 0755 with
the manager name baked in
- setup_dns -> runResolv (+ ping de-sudo'd, works unprivileged); host_access
+ webui_ssh_access -> runSshAccess
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: librelad <librelad@digitalangels.vip>
Under Model A the runtime runs as the manager, so establishing the
/docker ownership model needs root. Granting the manager a blanket
'sudo chown'/'sudo chmod' in the scoped sudoers would be root-equivalent
(chown /etc/sudoers, ...). Introduce a self-contained, root-owned helper
that performs only a FIXED set of reconciles on FIXED LibrePortal paths,
with owners derived from config + a baked manager name (never the caller)
and a strictly-validated app-name argument.
- scripts/system/libreportal-ownership: the helper (actions: reconcile,
traversal, containers-top, app-perms, webui, taskdir, app-data-nobody)
- run_privileged: runOwnership wrapper (sudo the installed helper; run the
bundled copy directly when already root mid-install)
- init.sh: installOwnershipHelper bakes the manager name and installs it
root:root 0755 to /usr/local/sbin (manager can't modify it)
- libreportal_folders/app_folder/app_update_specifics/task processor:
delegate the ownership chowns to runOwnership instead of runSystem chown
This removes chown/chmod-on-/docker from the runtime sudo surface, a
prerequisite for a non-root-equivalent scoped sudoers.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: librelad <librelad@digitalangels.vip>
- docker_run: in rooted mode run docker AS the manager via the docker
group (no sudo); the type=='sudo' branch was unreachable dead code
- 8 db helpers: fix 'command -v sudo sqlite3' guard to 'command -v
sqlite3' (bodies already query via runInstallOp)
- restic/kopia single-file dump: write target_file via runBackupOp tee
(as the backup user, matching the snapshot-restore path) instead of
root tee
- adguard auth: root-owned scratch via runSystem mktemp
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: librelad <librelad@digitalangels.vip>
The borg/restic/kopia engines all dropped to the dedicated backup user
via scattered 'sudo -E -u $docker_install_user'. Centralize that into a
single runBackupOp helper so the backup subsystem has one audit point and
the scoped sudoers needs only the (dockerinstall) drop rule.
Also:
- owncloud config heredoc tees -> runSystem (container-UID file)
- webui_display_logins: fix the broken 'command -v sudo sqlite3' guard
to 'command -v sqlite3' (body already runs sqlite3 via runInstallOp)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: librelad <librelad@digitalangels.vip>
dockerCommandRunInstallUser sudo's to the unprivileged docker install user but
inherited the caller's cwd. At install time the caller is root in /root, which
that user can't enter, so cwd-sensitive tools failed — e.g. 'find: Failed to
change directory: /root' / 'Failed to restore initial working directory'
during the app scan (the scan still worked via the absolute start path, but
the errors are noise and could bite other commands). Add env --chdir to the
install user's HOME for both the argv and shell exec paths so every runFileOp
runs from a directory the user can access.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: librelad <librelad@digitalangels.vip>
The rooted branch executed the command string as bare $command, which
word-splits without shell interpretation: pipes, redirects, && and quoted
Go templates were passed as literal argv to a single process. Nearly every
caller relies on shell syntax (docker ps | xargs -r ..., cd && docker
compose, --format='{{...}}', > /dev/null), so rooted mode silently
mishandled them — most visibly dockerStartAllApps after its pipe rewrite,
which failed with 'unknown shorthand flag: r'. Run via bash -c like the
rootless path so both modes share identical shell semantics. No caller uses
the sudo type arg.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: librelad <librelad@digitalangels.vip>
Maintainer confirmed the intended model: the manager user (libreportal, in the
docker group) owns /docker in BOTH modes and runs things directly; root:root was
always an accident of un-de-sudo'd sudo. Rework the helpers accordingly:
- add runAsManager (run as the manager: plain when already it at runtime, else
sudo -u at install time) so files end up manager-owned, never root-owned.
- runFileOp/runFileWrite: rooted -> runAsManager (was sudo->root); rootless
unchanged (docker install user owns containers/).
- runInstallOp/runInstallWrite: always runAsManager (control plane is manager-
owned in both modes).
- runSystem unchanged (genuine root: apt/systemctl/ufw/sysctl).
All ~40 converted call sites inherit this via the helpers. reconcile's WebUI dir
now -> manager in rooted / docker install user in rootless.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: librelad <librelad@digitalangels.vip>
Reinstall test on Debian 12 surfaced three rootless-only breakages (rooted
was byte-identical/fine):
1. pasta blocked by Debian's passt AppArmor profile (DENIED ptrace read ->
can't open container netns -> rootless dockerd never starts). Default
CFG_ROOTLESS_NET back to slirp4netns (reliable); pasta stays selectable
for hosts that relax the profile.
2. de-sudo mis-assigned helpers by owner. /docker management layer (apps DB
chowned to libreportal by install_sqlite, /docker/logs) is MANAGER-owned,
not dockerinstall. Add runInstallWrite; move apps-DB sqlite3 -> runInstallOp
and /docker/logs appends -> runInstallWrite. Revert ownership-SETUP scripts
(libreportal_folders, app_folder) to runSystem — they must run as root to
establish ownership during install. Container files (/docker/containers/<app>)
stay runFileOp.
3. kernel hardening sysctls written to /etc/sysctl/99-custom.conf, which
'sysctl --system' does not read -> never applied. Write them to
/etc/sysctl.d/99-libreportal-hardening.conf instead.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: librelad <librelad@digitalangels.vip>
- New runInstallOp helper for manager install-dir/template ops (rooted:
sudo; rootless: run as the current manager user, which owns the tree).
- adguard.sh, traefik.sh: container-config sed -> runFileOp.
- crowdsec.sh: host crowdsec systemctl/apt-get -> runSystem.
- dashy_update_conf.sh: conf-file mkdir/chown/md5sum/tee -> runFileOp/
runFileWrite; docker ps/restart -> dockerCommandRun.
Deferred (cross-owner copy / temp-file across /tmp<->/docker, need rootless
env to bridge correctly): owncloud_setup_config.sh, adguard_auth.sh.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: librelad <librelad@digitalangels.vip>
Add -a/--append to runFileWrite so the pervasive /docker/logs log-append
idiom (`… | sudo tee -a $logs_dir/$docker_log_file`) routes through the
mode-aware helper instead of raw sudo.
Convert scripts/config/docker/docker_config_to_container.sh fully: all
ops target /docker app config + logs (data-plane), so md5sum/grep/chmod/
cmp/editor -> runFileOp and the log-appends -> runFileWrite -a.
Byte-identical in rooted.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: librelad <librelad@digitalangels.vip>
Give dockerCommandRunInstallUser an --argv mode that execs arguments
verbatim (sudo -u <user> env ... "$@") instead of bash -c "$*", and
point runFileOp at it. The old $*+bash -c re-parse silently mangled
backslashes/quotes in args — e.g. sed scripts (\1, \( become 1, ( ) and
the sqlite3 .backup arg — so rootless data-plane ops with regex were
broken. Verified: the WG_DEFAULT_DNS sed now applies correctly as the
install user. All existing runFileOp callers pass plain commands, so the
switch is safe (and fixes the latent sqlite3 case).
Convert scripts/network/dns/setup_dns.sh: /etc/resolv.conf edits and
ping -> runSystem; the WG_DEFAULT_DNS compose-file sed -> runFileOp.
Byte-identical in rooted; correct in rootless.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: librelad <librelad@digitalangels.vip>
dockerCommandRunInstallUser ssh'd to <user>@localhost, but nothing set up an
SSH server/keys/authorized_keys, so every rootless setup command (daemon
install, systemctl --user) silently no-op'd. Replace with 'sudo -u <user> env
…' that sets XDG_RUNTIME_DIR / DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS / DOCKER_HOST / PATH
explicitly; linger keeps the user systemd + /run/user/<uid> alive so
systemctl --user works. No SSH server, no keys, less attack surface, and
sudo -u to an unprivileged user is not a root escalation.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: librelad <librelad@digitalangels.vip>
Single place that decides how a privileged op runs by Docker mode:
- runFileOp / runFileWrite: /docker data-plane ops — rooted uses sudo (identical
to today), rootless runs as the unprivileged install user (no root).
- runSystem: genuine system-admin ops, sudo in both modes, funnelled here so it
can later be confined to a scoped sudoers allowlist.
Call sites converted to these are byte-for-byte unchanged under rooted, so
existing/live boxes can't regress; rootless gets the de-privileged path.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: librelad <librelad@digitalangels.vip>
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