From d11fdacaf3c804b60dfe8371062f34ac2b624ac9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Jan Synacek <jsynacek@redhat.com>

Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2019 09:23:32 +0200

Subject: [PATCH] man: document systemd-analyze security

(cherry-picked from commit ee93c1e664a7bbc59f1578e285c871999507b14d)

Resolves: #1750343

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 man/systemd-analyze.xml | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+)

diff --git a/man/systemd-analyze.xml b/man/systemd-analyze.xml

index 7aa10fc68e..f3b595880f 100644

--- a/man/systemd-analyze.xml

+++ b/man/systemd-analyze.xml

@@ -106,6 +106,12 @@

       <arg choice="plain">service-watchdogs</arg>

       <arg choice="opt"><replaceable>BOOL</replaceable></arg>

     </cmdsynopsis>

+    <cmdsynopsis>

+      <command>systemd-analyze</command>

+      <arg choice="opt" rep="repeat">OPTIONS</arg>

+      <arg choice="plain">security</arg>

+      <arg choice="plain" rep="repeat"><replaceable>UNIT</replaceable></arg>

+    </cmdsynopsis>

   </refsynopsisdiv>

   <refsect1>

@@ -253,6 +259,29 @@ NAutoVTs=8

     <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.service</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>.

     The hardware watchdog is not affected by this setting.</para>

+    <para><command>systemd-analyze security</command> analyzes the security and sandboxing settings of one or more

+    specified service units. If at least one unit name is specified the security settings of the specified service

+    units are inspected and a detailed analysis is shown. If no unit name is specified, all currently loaded,

+    long-running service units are inspected and a terse table with results shown. The command checks for various

+    security-related service settings, assigning each a numeric "exposure level" value, depending on how important a

+    setting is. It then calculates an overall exposure level for the whole unit, which is an estimation in the range

+    0.0…10.0 indicating how exposed a service is security-wise. High exposure levels indicate very little applied

+    sandboxing. Low exposure levels indicate tight sandboxing and strongest security restrictions. Note that this only

+    analyzes the per-service security features systemd itself implements. This means that any additional security

+    mechanisms applied by the service code itself are not accounted for. The exposure level determined this way should

+    not be misunderstood: a high exposure level neither means that there is no effective sandboxing applied by the

+    service code itself, nor that the service is actually vulnerable to remote or local attacks. High exposure levels

+    do indicate however that most likely the service might benefit from additional settings applied to them. Please

+    note that many of the security and sandboxing settings individually can be circumvented — unless combined with

+    others. For example, if a service retains the privilege to establish or undo mount points many of the sandboxing

+    options can be undone by the service code itself. Due to that is essential that each service uses the most

+    comprehensive and strict sandboxing and security settings possible. The tool will take into account some of these

+    combinations and relationships between the settings, but not all. Also note that the security and sandboxing

+    settings analyzed here only apply to the operations executed by the service code itself. If a service has access to

+    an IPC system (such as D-Bus) it might request operations from other services that are not subject to the same

+    restrictions. Any comprehensive security and sandboxing analysis is hence incomplete if the IPC access policy is

+    not validated too.</para>

+

     <para>If no command is passed, <command>systemd-analyze

     time</command> is implied.</para>