docs: add a topic about security#433
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@daniloegea Thank you for the addition of the topic. I left some comments and suggestions.
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| Credentials, such as VPN keys and wifi passwords, are stored along with the rest |
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| Credentials, such as VPN keys and Wi-Fi passwords, are stored along with the rest |
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| Credentials, such as VPN keys and wifi passwords, are stored along with the rest | ||
| of the configuration in YAML files. Netplan expects that all your YAML files |
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"Netplan expects" is an anthropomorphism. Let's try to avoid it. In order to reword the sentence, could you please clarify if it is a hard requirement for the YAML files to be owned by root and only readable by root (i.e. would Netplan fail to function properly if this condition was not met)?
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It's not a hard requirement. I guess something like The recommended set of permissions is... would be better.
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| Credentials, such as VPN keys and wifi passwords, are stored along with the rest | ||
| of the configuration in YAML files. Netplan expects that all your YAML files | ||
| will belong to the root user and only have permissions to be read by root (`chmod 600`). |
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| will belong to the root user and only have permissions to be read by root (`chmod 600`). | |
| belong to the root user and only have permissions to be read by root (`chmod 600`). |
Unless there's something really temporal happening, try to avoid using any other tense but present.
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| run unit tests and the Netplan generator against a number of YAML files. This helps | ||
| us to detect issues, such as memory leaks and buffer overflows, at runtime using real | ||
| configuration as input. When a memory issue is detected the process will crash, letting | ||
| us know that some issue was introduced in the change. |
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| that some issue was introduced in the change. |
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| Every time a Pull Request is created or changes are merged to the main branch, |
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| Every time a pull request is created or changes are merged to the main branch, |
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| Every time a Pull Request is created or changes are merged to the main branch, | ||
| these tests will be executed and, if a crash happens, the workflow will fail. |
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| these tests will be executed and, if a crash happens, the workflow will fail. | |
| CI executes these tests, and, if a crash happens, the workflow fails. |
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| ## Binary package hardening | ||
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| On Ubuntu and Debian, Netplan is built (and in fact most of the binary packages are) | ||
| with a number of security flags that will apply some hardening to the resulting binary. |
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| with a number of security flags that apply some hardening to the resulting binary. |
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| On Ubuntu and Debian, Netplan is built (and in fact most of the binary packages are) | ||
| with a number of security flags that will apply some hardening to the resulting binary. | ||
| That is intended to make the life of attackers harder in case any security issue is | ||
| discovered. See `dpkg-buildflags(1)` for details. |
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| discovered. See `dpkg-buildflags(1)` for details. | |
| discovered. See the `dpkg-buildflags(1)` manual page for details. |
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Thank you folks. I tried to address all the issues you have found. Please, let me know if there is anything else to improve. |
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