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Explain unveil a bit more; requested by otto.

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Florian Obser 2023-02-19 11:50:17 +01:00
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@ -541,6 +541,16 @@ can cause if they ever get all the way to the /parent/ process using
fatal("unveil");
#+end_src
With unveil(2) a process can restrict its view of the file-system. The
first call to unveil(2) removes access to the entire file-system from
the process, except for the first argument of unveil(2). The second
argument specifies the permission the program requests for the path:
"=r=" means read, "=w=" write and "=c=" create. Subsequent calls
unveil more parts of the file-system. Since we cannot use pledge(2) in
the /parent/ process, we need to somehow lock-in the list of unveiled
paths so that an attacker cannot simply add more. ~unveil(NULL,
NULL);~ does that, any subsequent calls to unveil(2) will fail.
It turns out that the parent process needs very little access to the
file system. It needs access to the dhcpleased(8) config file, the
bpf(4) device and the directory where lease files are stored. That