oslo_privsep package

Submodules

oslo_privsep.capabilities module

class oslo_privsep.capabilities.Capabilities

Bases: enum.IntEnum

An enumeration.

CAP_AUDIT_CONTROL = 30
CAP_AUDIT_READ = 37
CAP_AUDIT_WRITE = 29
CAP_BLOCK_SUSPEND = 36
CAP_CHOWN = 0
CAP_DAC_OVERRIDE = 1
CAP_FOWNER = 3
CAP_FSETID = 4
CAP_IPC_LOCK = 14
CAP_IPC_OWNER = 15
CAP_KILL = 5
CAP_LEASE = 28
CAP_LINUX_IMMUTABLE = 9
CAP_MAC_ADMIN = 33
CAP_MAC_OVERRIDE = 32
CAP_MKNOD = 27
CAP_NET_ADMIN = 12
CAP_NET_BIND_SERVICE = 10
CAP_NET_BROADCAST = 11
CAP_NET_RAW = 13
CAP_SETFCAP = 31
CAP_SETGID = 6
CAP_SETPCAP = 8
CAP_SETUID = 7
CAP_SYSLOG = 34
CAP_SYS_ADMIN = 21
CAP_SYS_BOOT = 22
CAP_SYS_CHROOT = 18
CAP_SYS_MODULE = 16
CAP_SYS_NICE = 23
CAP_SYS_PACCT = 20
CAP_SYS_PTRACE = 19
CAP_SYS_RAWIO = 17
CAP_SYS_RESOURCE = 24
CAP_SYS_TIME = 25
CAP_SYS_TTY_CONFIG = 26
CAP_WAKE_ALARM = 35
oslo_privsep.capabilities.drop_all_caps_except(effective, permitted, inheritable)

Set (effective, permitted, inheritable) to provided list of caps

oslo_privsep.capabilities.get_caps()

Return (effective, permitted, inheritable) as lists of caps

oslo_privsep.capabilities.set_keepcaps(enable)

Set/unset thread’s “keep capabilities” flag - see prctl(2)

oslo_privsep.comm module

Serialization/Deserialization for privsep.

The wire format is a stream of msgpack objects encoding primitive python datatypes. Msgpack ‘raw’ is assumed to be a valid utf8 string (msgpack 2.0 ‘bin’ type is used for bytes). Python lists are converted to tuples during serialization/deserialization.

class oslo_privsep.comm.ClientChannel(sock)

Bases: object

close()
out_of_band(msg)

Received OOB message. Subclasses might want to override this.

send_recv(msg)
class oslo_privsep.comm.Deserializer(readsock)

Bases: object

class oslo_privsep.comm.Future(lock)

Bases: object

A very simple object to track the return of a function call

result()

Must already be holding lock used in constructor

set_exception(exc)

Must already be holding lock used in constructor

set_result(data)

Must already be holding lock used in constructor

class oslo_privsep.comm.Serializer(writesock)

Bases: object

close()
send(msg)
class oslo_privsep.comm.ServerChannel(sock)

Bases: object

Server-side twin to ClientChannel

send(msg)

oslo_privsep.daemon module

Privilege separation (“privsep”) daemon.

To ease transition this supports 2 alternative methods of starting the daemon, all resulting in a helper process running with elevated privileges and open socket(s) to the original process:

  1. Start via fork()

    Assumes process currently has all required privileges and is about to drop them (perhaps by setuid to an unprivileged user). If the the initial environment is secure and PrivContext.start(Method.FORK) is called early in main(), then this is the most secure and simplest. In particular, if the initial process is already running as non-root (but with sufficient capabilities, via eg suitable systemd service files), then no part needs to involve uid=0 or sudo.

  2. Start via sudo/rootwrap

    This starts the privsep helper on first use via sudo and rootwrap, and communicates via a temporary Unix socket passed on the command line. The communication channel is briefly exposed in the filesystem, but is protected with file permissions and connecting to it only grants access to the unprivileged process. Requires a suitable entry in sudoers or rootwrap.conf filters.

The privsep daemon exits when the communication channel is closed, (which usually occurs when the unprivileged process exits).

class oslo_privsep.daemon.Daemon(channel, context)

Bases: object

NB: This doesn’t fork() - do that yourself before calling run()

loop()

Main body of daemon request loop

run()

Run request loop. Sets up environment, then calls loop()

exception oslo_privsep.daemon.FailedToDropPrivileges

Bases: Exception

class oslo_privsep.daemon.ForkingClientChannel(context)

Bases: oslo_privsep.daemon._ClientChannel

class oslo_privsep.daemon.Message

Bases: enum.IntEnum

Types of messages sent across the communication channel

CALL = 3
ERR = 5
LOG = 6
PING = 1
PONG = 2
RET = 4
class oslo_privsep.daemon.PrivsepLogHandler(channel, processName=None)

Bases: logging.Handler

emit(record)

Do whatever it takes to actually log the specified logging record.

This version is intended to be implemented by subclasses and so raises a NotImplementedError.

exception oslo_privsep.daemon.ProtocolError

Bases: Exception

class oslo_privsep.daemon.RootwrapClientChannel(context)

Bases: oslo_privsep.daemon._ClientChannel

class oslo_privsep.daemon.StdioFd

Bases: enum.IntEnum

An enumeration.

STDERR = 2
STDIN = 0
STDOUT = 1
oslo_privsep.daemon.fdopen(fd, *args, **kwargs)
oslo_privsep.daemon.helper_main()

Start privileged process, serving requests over a Unix socket.

oslo_privsep.daemon.replace_logging(handler, log_root=None)
oslo_privsep.daemon.set_cloexec(fd)
oslo_privsep.daemon.setgid(group_id_or_name)
oslo_privsep.daemon.setuid(user_id_or_name)
oslo_privsep.daemon.un_monkey_patch()

oslo_privsep.priv_context module

oslo_privsep.priv_context.CapNameOrInt(value)
class oslo_privsep.priv_context.Method

Bases: enum.Enum

An enumeration.

FORK = 1
ROOTWRAP = 2
class oslo_privsep.priv_context.PrivContext(prefix, cfg_section='privsep', pypath=None, capabilities=None)

Bases: object

property conf

Return the oslo.config section object as lazily as possible.

entrypoint(func)

This is intended to be used as a decorator.

helper_command(sockpath)
is_entrypoint(func)
set_client_mode(enabled)
start(method=<Method.ROOTWRAP: 2>)
stop()
oslo_privsep.priv_context.init(root_helper=None)

Initialise oslo.privsep library.

This function should be called at the top of main(), after the command line is parsed, oslo.config is initialised and logging is set up, but before calling any privileged entrypoint, changing user id, forking, or anything else “odd”.

Parameters

root_helper – List of command and arguments to prefix privsep-helper with, in order to run helper as root. Note, ignored if context’s helper_command config option is set.

oslo_privsep.version module

Module contents