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Valentine Krasnobaeva 5cbb278fae MINOR: capabilities: add cap_sys_admin support
If 'namespace' keyword is used in the backend server settings or/and in the
bind string, it means that haproxy process will call setns() to change its
default namespace to the configured one and then, it will create a
socket in this new namespace. setns() syscall requires CAP_SYS_ADMIN
capability in the process Effective set (see man 2 setns). Otherwise, the
process must be run as root.

To avoid to run haproxy as root, let's add cap_sys_admin capability in the
same way as we already added the support for some other network capabilities.

As CAP_SYS_ADMIN belongs to CAP_SYS_* capabilities type, let's add a separate
flag LSTCHK_SYSADM for it. This flag is set, if the 'namespace' keyword was
found during configuration parsing. The flag may be unset only in
prepare_caps_for_setuid() or in prepare_caps_from_permitted_set(), which
inspect process EUID/RUID and Effective and Permitted capabilities sets.

If system doesn't support Linux capabilities or 'cap_sys_admin' was not set
in 'setcap', but 'namespace' keyword is presented in the configuration, we
keep the previous strict behaviour. Process, that has changed uid to the
non-priviledged user, will terminate with alert. This alert invites the user
to recheck its configuration.

In the case, when haproxy will start and run under a non-root user and
'cap_sys_admin' is not set, but 'namespace' keyword is presented, this patch
does not change previous behaviour as well. We'll still let the user to try
its configuration, but we inform via warning, that unexpected things, like
socket creation errors, may occur.
2024-04-30 21:40:17 +02:00
.github REGTESTS: use -dI for insecure fork by default in the regtest scripts 2024-04-22 16:15:57 +02:00
addons MINOR: stats: define stats-file output format support 2024-04-26 10:20:57 +02:00
admin BUILD: address a few remaining calloc(size, n) cases 2024-02-10 11:37:27 +01:00
dev DEV: flags/peers: Decode PEER and PEERS flags 2024-04-25 18:29:58 +02:00
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examples CLEANUP: assorted typo fixes in the code and comments 2023-11-23 16:23:14 +01:00
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VERDATE [RELEASE] Released version 3.0-dev9 2024-04-27 09:37:03 +02:00
VERSION [RELEASE] Released version 3.0-dev9 2024-04-27 09:37:03 +02:00

The HAProxy documentation has been split into a number of different files for
ease of use.

Please refer to the following files depending on what you're looking for :

  - INSTALL for instructions on how to build and install HAProxy
  - BRANCHES to understand the project's life cycle and what version to use
  - LICENSE for the project's license
  - CONTRIBUTING for the process to follow to submit contributions

The more detailed documentation is located into the doc/ directory :

  - doc/intro.txt for a quick introduction on HAProxy
  - doc/configuration.txt for the configuration's reference manual
  - doc/lua.txt for the Lua's reference manual
  - doc/SPOE.txt for how to use the SPOE engine
  - doc/network-namespaces.txt for how to use network namespaces under Linux
  - doc/management.txt for the management guide
  - doc/regression-testing.txt for how to use the regression testing suite
  - doc/peers.txt for the peers protocol reference
  - doc/coding-style.txt for how to adopt HAProxy's coding style
  - doc/internals for developer-specific documentation (not all up to date)