systemd protection settings

systemd protection settings

systemd.exec

Results of trial and error on the [Service] settings in man 5 systemd.exec

paths

• MountAPIVFS=: implied by other settings below
• ProtectProc=invisible: hides subtrees from other pids in /proc/, other things like /proc/cpuinfo remain available
• ProcSubset=pid: hides everything else, leaving just /proc/<pid>, /proc/self/, /proc/thread-self/

identity

• DynamicUser=true: dynamically allocated user/group, username uses service name. Note this also affects binaries with setuid/setcap on them, as they are forced to be a different user (so don't get the capabilities originally granted).

capabilities

• CapabilityBoundingSet=cap_net_bind_service limits existing capabilities (eg if you're root)
• AmbientCapabilities=cap_net_bind_service: grants new capabilities

security

• NoNewPrivileges=true: prevents bypasses by execing other processes.
• SecureBits=noroot-locked: do not grant capabilities from file system

sandboxing

• ProtectSystem=strict: Filesystem (except /dev/, /proc, /sys/ is readonly, unless allowed by other settings
• PrivateDevices=true: Hides non virtual things in /dev/
• PrivateIPC=true
• PrivateUser: hides other users
• ProtectHostname=true
• ProtectClock=true
• ProtectKernelTunables=true, make /proc/ and /sys/ settings read only
• ProtectKernelModules=true
• ProtectKernelLogs=true
• ProtectControlGroups=true
• RestrictNamespaces=true
• LockPersonality=true (system architecture, eg x86_64 + x86)
• MemoryDenyWriteExecute=true
• RestrictRealtime=true
• RemoveIPC=true
• RestrictSUIDSGID=true, implied by DynamicUser
• PrivateMounts=true hides mounts from host