Re: [CentOS] Block outgoing connections for certaing uids (root, apache, nobody)

2012-04-05 Thread Daniel J Walsh
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On 04/04/2012 10:15 AM, Lamar Owen wrote:
 On Wednesday, April 04, 2012 05:13:11 AM Alexander Farber wrote:
 Good morning
 
 With iptables in CentOS 5 and 6 Linux - how can you please prevent
 processes running as root, apache or nobody from initiating
 outgoing connections?
 
 This sounds more like something an SELinux rule could do better, and on a
 per-process basis.
 
 Now, I don't have such a rule or policy file written, but I think for this
 purpose SELinux is the right tool to try to use.  You might have to go from
 the rather lenient 'targeted' policy to the rather difficult to use
 'strict' policy to make it happen, though.
 
 Dan Walsh is on here, and he's the expert, so maybe he'll weigh in. 
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Very difficult to do, especially if you are talking about administrators
running as root.  If you want to allow everything except connection to the
network, you will not stop a determined admin.  Now we can block the apache
process from connecting to the network.   If you want to run confined admins
we can also control them, but it is not easy.
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Re: [CentOS] Block outgoing connections for certaing uids (root, apache, nobody)

2012-04-04 Thread Tony Mountifield
In article caadeywhp3mjspc-mo7aewzsxsq9phibpho2iu3bo8i0ttji...@mail.gmail.com,
Alexander Farber alexander.far...@gmail.com wrote:
 Good morning
 
 With iptables in CentOS 5 and 6 Linux - how can you please
 prevent processes running as root, apache or nobody
 from initiating outgoing connections?
 
 On CentOS 5 Linux I've tried putting these lines into /etc/sysconfig/iptables:
 
 -A OUTPUT -m owner --uid-owner root -j DROP
 -A OUTPUT -m owner --uid-owner apache -j DROP
 -A OUTPUT -m owner --uid-owner nobody -j DROP
 
 but unfortunately get the error:
 
 # sudo service iptables restart
 iptables: Flushing firewall rules: [  OK  ]
 iptables: Setting chains to policy ACCEPT: filter  [  OK  ]
 iptables: Unloading modules:   [  OK  ]
 iptables: Applying firewall rules: iptables-restore v1.4.7: owner: Bad
 value for --uid-owner option: apache
 Error occurred at line: 27
 Try `iptables-restore -h' or 'iptables-restore --help' for more information.
[FAILED]

Perhaps it doesn't do a username lookup and only understands numeric userids?
Try:

-A OUTPUT -m owner --uid-owner 0 -j DROP
-A OUTPUT -m owner --uid-owner 48 -j DROP
-A OUTPUT -m owner --uid-owner 99 -j DROP

(I think those values are standard on CentOS)

Bear in mind that preventing root connections would stop you doing any
kind of updating using yum, unless you have a previous rule allowing http.

Cheers
Tony
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Re: [CentOS] Block outgoing connections for certaing uids (root, apache, nobody)

2012-04-04 Thread Tris Hoar

On 04/04/2012 10:21, Tony Mountifield wrote:
 In 
 articlecaadeywhp3mjspc-mo7aewzsxsq9phibpho2iu3bo8i0ttji...@mail.gmail.com,
 Alexander Farberalexander.far...@gmail.com  wrote:
 Good morning

 With iptables in CentOS 5 and 6 Linux - how can you please
 prevent processes running as root, apache or nobody
 from initiating outgoing connections?

 On CentOS 5 Linux I've tried putting these lines into 
 /etc/sysconfig/iptables:

 -A OUTPUT -m owner --uid-owner root -j DROP
 -A OUTPUT -m owner --uid-owner apache -j DROP
 -A OUTPUT -m owner --uid-owner nobody -j DROP

 but unfortunately get the error:

 # sudo service iptables restart
 iptables: Flushing firewall rules: [  OK  ]
 iptables: Setting chains to policy ACCEPT: filter  [  OK  ]
 iptables: Unloading modules:   [  OK  ]
 iptables: Applying firewall rules: iptables-restore v1.4.7: owner: Bad
 value for --uid-owner option: apache
 Error occurred at line: 27
 Try `iptables-restore -h' or 'iptables-restore --help' for more information.
 [FAILED]

 Perhaps it doesn't do a username lookup and only understands numeric userids?
 Try:

 -A OUTPUT -m owner --uid-owner 0 -j DROP
 -A OUTPUT -m owner --uid-owner 48 -j DROP
 -A OUTPUT -m owner --uid-owner 99 -j DROP

 (I think those values are standard on CentOS)

 Bear in mind that preventing root connections would stop you doing any
 kind of updating using yum, unless you have a previous rule allowing http.

 Cheers
 Tony

This would also stop the server being able to use DNS, and would likely 
break other things. I'd be wary of stopping root talking out of the network.

Tris

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Re: [CentOS] Block outgoing connections for certaing uids (root, apache, nobody)

2012-04-04 Thread Lamar Owen
On Wednesday, April 04, 2012 05:13:11 AM Alexander Farber wrote:
 Good morning
 
 With iptables in CentOS 5 and 6 Linux - how can you please
 prevent processes running as root, apache or nobody
 from initiating outgoing connections?

This sounds more like something an SELinux rule could do better, and on a 
per-process basis.

Now, I don't have such a rule or policy file written, but I think for this 
purpose SELinux is the right tool to try to use.  You might have to go from the 
rather lenient 'targeted' policy to the rather difficult to use 'strict' policy 
to make it happen, though.

Dan Walsh is on here, and he's the expert, so maybe he'll weigh in.
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Re: [CentOS] Block outgoing connections for certaing uids (root, apache, nobody)

2012-04-04 Thread Alexander Farber
Yep, I've locked out myself out of the dedicated server today.

The numeric uids work, thank you.
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