/mandos/release

To get this branch, use:
bzr branch http://bzr.recompile.se/loggerhead/mandos/release

« back to all changes in this revision

Viewing changes to intro.xml

  • Committer: Teddy Hogeborn
  • Date: 2016-03-04 22:07:35 UTC
  • mto: (237.7.594 trunk)
  • mto: This revision was merged to the branch mainline in revision 335.
  • Revision ID: teddy@recompile.se-20160304220735-4xeeqt5p4nhw5cuh
Restrict the Mandos server daemon in the systemd service file.

* mandos.service ([Service]/ProtectSystem): Set to "full".
 ([Service]/PrivateTmp, [Service]/PrivateDevices,
  [Service]/ProtectHome): Set to "yes".
 ([Service]/CapabilityBoundingSet): Set to "CAP_SETUID
                                    CAP_DAC_OVERRIDE CAP_NET_RAW".

Show diffs side-by-side

added added

removed removed

Lines of Context:
intro.xml
1
1
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
2
2
<!DOCTYPE refentry PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
3
3
"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
4
 
<!ENTITY TIMESTAMP "2011-08-08">
 
4
<!ENTITY TIMESTAMP "2016-02-28">
5
5
<!ENTITY % common SYSTEM "common.ent">
6
6
%common;
7
7
]>
18
18
        <firstname>Björn</firstname>
19
19
        <surname>Påhlsson</surname>
20
20
        <address>
21
 
          <email>belorn@fukt.bsnet.se</email>
 
21
          <email>belorn@recompile.se</email>
22
22
        </address>
23
23
      </author>
24
24
      <author>
25
25
        <firstname>Teddy</firstname>
26
26
        <surname>Hogeborn</surname>
27
27
        <address>
28
 
          <email>teddy@fukt.bsnet.se</email>
 
28
          <email>teddy@recompile.se</email>
29
29
        </address>
30
30
      </author>
31
31
    </authorgroup>
32
32
    <copyright>
33
33
      <year>2011</year>
 
34
      <year>2012</year>
 
35
      <year>2013</year>
 
36
      <year>2014</year>
 
37
      <year>2015</year>
 
38
      <year>2016</year>
34
39
      <holder>Teddy Hogeborn</holder>
35
40
      <holder>Björn Påhlsson</holder>
36
41
    </copyright>
196
201
      </para>
197
202
    </refsect2>
198
203
    
 
204
    <refsect2 id="sniff">
 
205
      <title>How about sniffing the network traffic and decrypting it
 
206
      later by physically grabbing the Mandos client and using its
 
207
      key?</title>
 
208
      <para>
 
209
        We only use <acronym>PFS</acronym> (Perfect Forward Security)
 
210
        key exchange algorithms in TLS, which protects against this.
 
211
      </para>
 
212
    </refsect2>
 
213
    
199
214
    <refsect2 id="physgrab">
200
215
      <title>Physically grabbing the Mandos server computer?</title>
201
216
      <para>
214
229
      </para>
215
230
    </refsect2>
216
231
    
217
 
    <refsect2 id="fakeping">
218
 
      <title>Faking ping replies?</title>
 
232
    <refsect2 id="fakecheck">
 
233
      <title>Faking checker results?</title>
219
234
      <para>
220
 
        The default for the server is to use
 
235
        If the Mandos client does not have an SSH server, the default
 
236
        is for the Mandos server to use
221
237
        <quote><literal>fping</literal></quote>, the replies to which
222
238
        could be faked to eliminate the timeout.  But this could
223
239
        easily be changed to any shell command, with any security
224
 
        measures you like.  It could, for instance, be changed to an
225
 
        SSH command with strict keychecking, which could not be faked.
226
 
        Or IPsec could be used for the ping packets, making them
227
 
        secure.
 
240
        measures you like.  If the Mandos client
 
241
        <emphasis>has</emphasis> an SSH server, the default
 
242
        configuration (as generated by
 
243
        <command>mandos-keygen</command> with the
 
244
        <option>--password</option> option) is for the Mandos server
 
245
        to use an <command>ssh-keyscan</command> command with strict
 
246
        keychecking, which can not be faked.  Alternatively, IPsec
 
247
        could be used for the ping packets, making them secure.
228
248
      </para>
229
249
    </refsect2>
230
250
  </refsect1>
392
412
    <variablelist>
393
413
      <varlistentry>
394
414
        <term>
395
 
          <ulink url="http://www.fukt.bsnet.se/mandos">Mandos</ulink>
 
415
          <ulink url="http://www.recompile.se/mandos">Mandos</ulink>
396
416
        </term>
397
417
        <listitem>
398
418
          <para>