[openstack-dev] [nova][cinder][neutron][security] Rootwrap discussions at OSSG mid-cycle

Lucas Fisher lucas.fisher at nebula.com
Fri Feb 20 20:44:53 UTC 2015


All,
We spent some time at the OSSG mid-cycle meet-up this week discussing root wrap, looking at the existing code, and considering some of the mailing list discussions.

Summary of our discussions: https://github.com/hyakuhei/OSSG-Security-Practices/blob/master/ossg_rootwrap.md

The one line summary is we like the idea of a privileged daemon with higher level interfaces to the commands being run. It has a number of advantages such as easier to audit, enables better input sanitization, cleaner interfaces, and easier to take advantage of Linux capabilities, SELinux, AppArmour, etc. The write-up has some more details.

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Lucas Fisher
Senior Security Software Engineer | Nebula Inc.
lucas.fisher at nebula.com





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