diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/security/chapter.sgml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/security/chapter.sgml index 60859ae9a6..6cc393ebe3 100644 --- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/security/chapter.sgml +++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/security/chapter.sgml @@ -1,2013 +1,2742 @@ Security - - Parts rewritten and updated by &a.unfurl;, 21 March - 2000. + + Much of this chapter has been taken from the + &man.security.7; man page, originally written by + &a.dillon;. + + + Synopsis + + The following chapter will provide a basic introduction to + system security concepts, some general good rules of thumb, and some + advanced topics such as S/Key, OpenSSL, Kerberos, and others. + + + + Introduction + + Security is a function that begins and ends with the system + administrator. While all BSD UNIX multi-user systems have some + inherent security, the job of building and maintaining additional + security mechanisms to keep those users “honest” is + probably one of the single largest undertakings of the sysadmin. + Machines are only as secure as you make them, and security concerns + are ever competing with the human necessity for convenience. UNIX + systems, in general, are capable of running a huge number of + simultaneous processes and many of these processes operate as + servers – meaning that external entities can connect and talk + to them. As yesterday's mini-computers and mainframes become + today's desktops, and as computers become networked and + internetworked, security becomes an ever bigger issue. + + Security is best implemented through a layered + “onion” approach. In a nutshell, what you want to do is + to create as many layers of security as are convenient and then + carefully monitor the system for intrusions. You do not want to + overbuild your security or you will interefere with the detection + side, and detection is one of the single most important aspects of + any security mechanism. For example, it makes little sense to set + the schg flags (see &man.chflags.1;) on every system binary because + while this may temporarily protect the binaries, it prevents a + hacker who has broken in from making an easily detectable change + that may result in your security mechanisms not detecting the hacker + at all. + + System security also pertains to dealing with various forms of + attack, including attacks that attempt to crash or otherwise make a + system unusable but do not attempt to break root. Security concerns + can be split up into several categories: + + + + Denial of service attacks. + + + + User account compromises. + + + + Root compromise through accessible servers. + + + + Root compromise via user accounts. + + + + Backdoor creation. + + + + A denial of service attack is an action that deprives the + machine of needed resources. Typically, D.O.S. attacks are + brute-force mechanisms that attempt to crash or otherwise make a + machine unusable by overwhelming its servers or network stack. Some + D.O.S. attacks try to take advantages of bugs in the networking + stack to crash a machine with a single packet. The latter can only + be fixed by applying a bug fix to the kernel. Attacks on servers + can often be fixed by properly specifying options to limit the load + the servers incur on the system under adverse conditions. + Brute-force network attacks are harder to deal with. A + spoofed-packet attack, for example, is nearly impossible to stop + short of cutting your system off from the internet. It may not be + able to take your machine down, but it can fill up internet + pipe. + + A user account compromise is even more common then a D.O.S. + attack. Many sysadmins still run standard telnetd, rlogind, rshd, + and ftpd servers on their machines. These servers, by default, do + not operate over encrypted connections. The result is that if you + have any moderate-sized user base, one or more of your users logging + into your system from a remote location (which is the most common + and convenient way to login to a system) will have his or her + password sniffed. The attentive system admin will analyze his + remote access logs looking for suspicious source addresses even for + successful logins. + + One must always assume that once an attacker has access to a + user account, the attacker can break root. However, the reality is + that in a well secured and maintained system, access to a user + account does not necessarily give the attacker access to root. The + distinction is important because without access to root the attacker + cannot generally hide his tracks and may, at best, be able to do + nothing more then mess with the user's files or crash the machine. + User account compromises are very common because users tend not to + take the precautions that sysadmins take. + + System administrators must keep in mind that there are + potentially many ways to break root on a machine. The attacker may + know the root password, the attacker may find a bug in a root-run + server and be able to break root over a network connection to that + server, or the attacker may know of a bug in an suid-root program + that allows the attacker to break root once he has broken into a + user's account. If an attacker has found a way to break root on a + machine, the attacker may not have a need to install Many of the + root holes found and closed to date involve a considerable amount of + work by the hacker to cleanup after himself, so most hackers do + install backdoors. This gives you a convienient way to detect the + hacker. Making it impossible for a hacker to install a backdoor may + actually be detrimental to your security because it will not close + off the hole the hacker found to break in in the first place. + + Security remedies should always be implemented with a + multi-layered “onion peel” approach and can be + categorized as follows: + + + + Securing root and staff accounts. + + + + Securing root – root-run servers and suid/sgid + binaries. + + + + Securing user accounts. + + + + Securing the password file. + + + + Securing the kernel core, raw devices, and + filesystems. + + + + Quick detection of inappropriate changes made to the + system. + + + + Paranoia. + + + + The next section of this chapter will cover the above bullet + items in greater depth. + + + + Securing FreeBSD + + The sections that follow will cover the methods of securing your + FreeBSD system that were mentioned in the last section of this chapter. + + + Securing the root account and staff accounts + + First off, do not bother securing staff accounts if you have + not secured the root account. Most systems have a password + assigned to the root account. The first thing you do is assume + that the password is always compromised. + This does not mean that you should remove the password. The + password is almost always necessary for console access to the + machine. What it does mean is that you should not make it + possible to use the password outside of the console or possibly + even with the &man.su.1; command. For example, make sure that + your pty's are specified as being unsecure in the + /etc/ttys file so that direct root logins + via telnet or rlogin are + disallowed. If using other login services such as + sshd, make sure that direct root logins + are disabled there as well. Consider every access method – + services such as ftp often fall through the cracks. Direct root + logins should only be allowed via the system console. + + Of course, as a sysadmin you have to be able to get to root, + so we open up a few holes. But we make sure these holes require + additional password verification to operate. One way to make root + accessible is to add appropriate staff accounts to the + wheel group (in + /etc/group). The staff members placed in the + wheel group are allowed to + su to root. You should never give staff + members native wheel access by putting them in the + wheel group in their password entry. Staff + accounts should be placed in a staff group, and + then added to the wheel group via the + /etc/group file. Only those staff members + who actually need to have root access should be placed in the + wheel group. It is also possible, when using + an authentication method such as kerberos, to use kerberos's + .k5login file in the root account to allow a + &man.ksu.1; to root without having to place anyone at all in the + wheel group. This may be the better solution + since the wheel mechanism still allows an + intruder to break root if the intruder has gotten hold of your + password file and can break into a staff account. While having + the wheel mechanism is better then having + nothing at all, it is not necessarily the safest option. + + An indirect way to secure the root account is to secure your + staff accounts by using an alternative login access method and + *'ing out the crypted password for the staff + accounts. This way an intruder may be able to steal the password + file but will not be able to break into any staff accounts (or, + indirectly, root, even if root has a crypted password associated + with it). Staff members get into their staff accounts through a + secure login mechanism such as &man.kerberos.1; or &man.ssh.1; + using a private/public key pair. When you use something like + kerberos, you generally must secure the machines which run the + kerberos servers and your desktop workstation. When you use a + public/private key pair with ssh, you + must generally secure the machine you are logging in + from (typically your workstation), but you + can also add an additional layer of protection to the key pair by + password protecting the keypair when you create it with + &man.ssh-keygen.1;. Being able to * out the + passwords for staff accounts also guarantees that staff members can + only login through secure access methods that you have setup. You + can thus force all staff members to use secure, encrypted + connections for all of their sessions which closes an important + hole used by many intruders: That of sniffing the network from an + unrelated, less secure machine. + + The more indirect security mechanisms also assume that you are + logging in from a more restrictive server to a less restrictive + server. For example, if your main box is running all sorts of + servers, your workstation should not be running any. In order for + your workstation to be reasonably secure you should run as few + servers as possible, up to and including no servers at all, and + you should run a password-protected screen blanker. Of course, + given physical access to a workstation an attacker can break any + sort of security you put on it. This is definitely a problem that + you should consider but you should also consider the fact that the + vast majority of break-ins occur remotely, over a network, from + people who do not have physical access to your workstation or + servers. + + Using something like kerberos also gives you the ability to + disable or change the password for a staff account in one place + and have it immediately effect all the machine the staff member + may have an account on. If a staff member's account gets + compromised, the ability to instantly change his password on all + machines should not be underrated. With discrete passwords, + changing a password on N machines can be a mess. You can also + impose re-passwording restrictions with kerberos: not only can a + kerberos ticket be made to timeout after a while, but the kerberos + system can require that the user choose a new password after a + certain period of time (say, once a month). + + + + Securing Root-run Servers and SUID/SGID Binaries + + The prudent sysadmin only runs the servers he needs to, no + more, no less. Be aware that third party servers are often the + most bug-prone. For example, running an old version of imapd or + popper is like giving a universal root ticket out to the entire + world. Never run a server that you have not checked out + carefully. Many servers do not need to be run as root. For + example, the ntalk, + comsat, and + finger daemons can be run in special + user sandboxes. A sandbox isn't perfect unless + you go to a large amount of trouble, but the onion approach to + security still stands: If someone is able to break in through + a server running in a sandbox, they still have to break out of the + sandbox. The more layers the attacker must break through, the + lower the likelihood of his success. Root holes have historically + been found in virtually every server ever run as root, including + basic system servers. If you are running a machine through which + people only login via sshd and never + login via telnetd or + rshd or + rlogind, then turn off those + services! + + FreeBSD now defaults to running + ntalkd, + comsat, and + finger in a sandbox. Another program + which may be a candidate for running in a sandbox is &man.named.8;. + The default rc.conf includes the arguments + necessary to run namedin a sandbox in a + commented-out form. Depending on whether you are installing a new + system or upgrading an existing system, the special user accounts + used by these sandboxes may not be installed. The prudent + sysadmin would research and implement sandboxes for servers + whenever possible. + + There are a number of other servers that typically do not run + in sandboxes: sendmail, + popper, + imapd, ftpd, + and others. There are alternatives to some of these, but + installing them may require more work then you are willing to + perform (the convenience factor strikes again). You may have to + run these servers as root and rely on other mechanisms to detect + break-ins that might occur through them. + + The other big potential root hole in a system are the + suid-root and sgid binaries installed on the system. Most of + these binaries, such as rlogin, reside + in /bin, /sbin, + /usr/bin, or /usr/sbin. + While nothing is 100% safe, the system-default suid and sgid + binaries can be considered reasonably safe. Still, root holes are + occasionally found in these binaries. A root hole was found in + Xlib in 1998 that made + xterm (which is typically suid) + vulnerable. It is better to be safe then sorry and the prudent + sysadmin will restrict suid binaries that only staff should run to + a special group that only staff can access, and get rid of + (chmod 000) any suid binaries that nobody uses. + A server with no display generally does not need an + xterm binary. Sgid binaries can be + almost as dangerous. If an intruder can break an sgid-kmem binary + the intruder might be able to read /dev/kmem + and thus read the crypted password file, potentially compromising + any passworded account. Alternatively an intruder who breaks + group kmem can monitor keystrokes sent through + pty's, including pty's used by users who login through secure + methods. An intruder that breaks the tty group can write to + almost any user's tty. If a user is running a terminal program or + emulator with a keyboard-simulation feature, the intruder can + potentially generate a data stream that causes the user's terminal + to echo a command, which is then run as that user. + + + + Securing User Accounts + + User accounts are usually the most difficult to secure. While + you can impose Draconian access restrictions on your staff and + * out their passwords, you may not be able to + do so with any general user accounts you might have. If you do + have sufficient control then you may win out and be able to secure + the user accounts properly. If not, you simply have to be more + vigilant in your monitoring of those accounts. Use of + ssh and kerberos for user accounts is + more problematic due to the extra administration and technical + support required, but still a very good solution compared to a + crypted password file. + + + + Securing the Password File + + The only sure fire way is to * out as many + passwords as you can and use ssh or + kerberos for access to those accounts. Even though the crypted + password file (/etc/spwd.db) can only be read + by root, it may be possible for an intruder to obtain read access + to that file even if the attacker cannot obtain root-write + access. + + Your security scripts should always check for and report + changes to the password file (see Checking file integrity + below). + + + + Securing the Kernel Core, Raw Devices, and + Filesystems + + If an attacker breaks root he can do just about anything, but + there are certain conveniences. For example, most modern kernels + have a packet sniffing device driver built in. Under FreeBSD it + is called the bpf device. An intruder + will commonly attempt to run a packet sniffer on a compromised + machine. You do not need to give the intruder the capability and + most systems should not have the bpf device compiled in. + + But even if you turn off the bpf device, you still have + /dev/mem and /dev/kmem + to worry about. For that matter, the intruder can still write to + raw disk devices. Also, there is another kernel feature called + the module loader, &man.kldload.8;. An enterprising intruder can + use a KLD module to install his own bpf device or other sniffing + device on a running kernel. To avoid these problems you have to + run the kernel at a higher secure level, at least securelevel 1. + The securelevel can be set with a sysctl on + the kern.securelevel variable. Once you have + set the securelevel to 1, write access to raw devices will be + denied and special chflags flags, such as schg, + will be enforced. You must also ensure that the + schg flag is set on critical startup binaries, + directories, and script files – everything that gets run up + to the point where the securelevel is set. This might be overdoing + it, and upgrading the system is much more difficult when you + operate at a higher secure level. You may compromise and run the + system at a higher secure level but not set the + schg flag for every system file and directory + under the sun. Another possibility is to simply mount + / and /usr read-only. + It should be noted that being too draconian in what you attempt to + protect may prevent the all-important detection of an + intrusion. + + + + Checking File Integrity: Binaires, Configuration Files, + Etc. + + When it comes right down to it, you can only protect your core + system configuration and control files so much before the + convenience factor rears its ugly head. For example, using + chflags to set the schg bit + on most of the files in / and + /usr is probably counterproductive because + while it may protect the files, it also closes a detection window. + The last layer of your security onion is perhaps the most + important – detection. The rest of your security is pretty + much useless (or, worse, presents you with a false sense of + safety) if you cannot detect potential incursions. Half the job + of the onion is to slow down the attacker rather then stop him in + order to give the detection side of the equation a chance to catch + him in the act. + + The best way to detect an incursion is to look for modified, + missing, or unexpected files. The best way to look for modified + files is from another (often centralized) limited-access system. + Writing your security scripts on the extra-secure limited-access + system makes them mostly invisible to potential hackers, and this + is important. In order to take maximum advantage you generally + have to give the limited-access box significant access to the + other machines in the business, usually either by doing a + read-only NFS export of the other machines to the limited-access + box, or by setting up ssh keypairs to + allow the limit-access box to ssh to + the other machines. Except for its network traffic, NFS is the + least visible method – allowing you to monitor the + filesystems on each client box virtually undetected. If your + limited-access server is connected to the client boxes through a + switch, the NFS method is often the better choice. If your + limited-access server is connected to the client boxes through a + hub or through several layers of routing, the NFS method may be + too insecure (network-wise) and using + ssh may be the better choice even with + the audit-trail tracks that ssh + lays. + + Once you give a limit-access box at least read access to the + client systems it is supposed to monitor, you must write scripts + to do the actual monitoring. Given an NFS mount, you can write + scripts out of simple system utilities such as &man.find.1; and + &man.md5.1;. It is best to physically md5 the client-box files + boxes at least once a day, and to test control files such as those + found in /etc and + /usr/local/etc even more often. When + mismatches are found relative to the base md5 information the + limited-access machine knows is valid, it should scream at a + sysadmin to go check it out. A good security script will also + check for inappropriate suid binaries and for new or deleted files + on system partitions such as / and + /usr. + + When using ssh rather then NFS, + writing the security script is much more difficult. You + essentially have to scp the scripts to the client box in order to + run them, making them visible, and for safety you also need to + scp the binaries (such as find) that those + scripts use. The ssh daemon on the + client box may already be compromised. All in all, using + ssh may be necessary when running over + unsecure links, but it's also a lot harder to deal with. + + A good security script will also check for changes to user and + staff members access configuration files: + .rhosts, .shosts, + .ssh/authorized_keys and so forth… + files that might fall outside the purview of the + MD5 check. + + If you have a huge amount of user disk space it may take too + long to run through every file on those partitions. In this case, + setting mount flags to disallow suid binaries and devices on those + partitions is a good idea. The nodev and + nosuid options (see &man.mount.8;) are what you + want to look into. I would scan them anyway at least once a week, + since the object of this layer is to detect a break-in whether or + not the break-in is effective. + + Process accounting (see &man.accton.8;) is a relatively + low-overhead feature of the operating system which I recommend + using as a post-break-in evaluation mechanism. It is especially + useful in tracking down how an intruder has actually broken into + a system, assuming the file is still intact after the break-in + occurs. + + Finally, security scripts should process the log files and the + logs themselves should be generated in as secure a manner as + possible – remote syslog can be very useful. An intruder + tries to cover his tracks, and log files are critical to the + sysadmin trying to track down the time and method of the initial + break-in. One way to keep a permanent record of the log files is + to run the system console to a serial port and collect the + information on a continuing basis through a secure machine + monitoring the consoles. + + + + Paranoia + + A little paranoia never hurts. As a rule, a sysadmin can add + any number of security features as long as they do not effect + convenience, and can add security features that do effect + convenience with some added thought. Even more importantly, a + security administrator should mix it up a bit – if you use + recommendations such as those given by this document verbatim, you + give away your methodologies to the prospective hacker who also + has access to this document. + + + + Denial of Service Attacks + + This section covers Denial of Service attacks. A DOS attack + is typically a packet attack. While there is not much you can do + about modern spoofed packet attacks that saturate your network, + you can generally limit the damage by ensuring that the attacks + cannot take down your servers. + + + + Limiting server forks. + + + + Limiting springboard attacks (ICMP response attacks, ping + broadcast, etc.). + + + + Kernel Route Cache. + + + + A common DOS attack is against a forking server that attempts + to cause the server to eat processes, file descriptors, and memory + until the machine dies. Inetd (see &man.inetd.8;) has several + options to limit this sort of attack. It should be noted that + while it is possible to prevent a machine from going down it is + not generally possible to prevent a service from being disrupted + by the attack. Read the inetd manual page carefully and pay + specific attention to the , , + and options. Note that spoofed-IP attacks + will circumvent the option to inetd, so + typically a combination of options must be used. Some standalone + servers have self-fork-limitation parameters. + + Sendmail has its + option which tends to work + much better than trying to use sendmail's load limiting options + due to the load lag. You should specify a + MaxDaemonChildren parameter when you start + sendmail high enough to handle your + expected load but no so high that the computer cannot handle that + number of sendmails without falling on + its face. It is also prudent to run sendmail in queued mode + () and to run the daemon + (sendmail -bd) separate from the queue-runs + (sendmail -q15m). If you still want realtime + delivery you can run the queue at a much lower interval, such as + , but be sure to specify a reasonable + MaxDaemonChildren option for that sendmail to + prevent cascade failures. + + Syslogd can be attacked directly + and it is strongly recommended that you use the + option whenever possible, and the option + otherwise. + + You should also be fairly careful with connect-back services + such as tcpwrapper's reverse-identd, + which can be attacked directly. You generally do not want to use + the reverse-ident feature of + tcpwrappers for this reason. + + It is a very good idea to protect internal services from + external access by firewalling them off at your border routers. + The idea here is to prevent saturation attacks from outside your + LAN, not so much to protect internal services from network-based + root compromise. Always configure an exclusive firewall, i.e., + “firewall everything except ports A, B, + C, D, and M-Z”. This way you can firewall off all of your + low ports except for certain specific services such as + named (if you are primary for a zone), + ntalkd, + sendmail, and other internet-accessible + services. If you try to configure the firewall the other way + – as an inclusive or permissive firewall, there is a good + chance that you will forget to “close” a couple of + services or that you will add a new internal service and forget + to update the firewall. You can still open up the high-numbered + port range on the firewall to allow permissive-like operation + without compromising your low ports. Also take note that FreeBSD + allows you to control the range of port numbers used for dynamic + binding via the various net.inet.ip.portrange + sysctl's (sysctl -a | fgrep + portrange), which can also ease the complexity of your + firewall's configuration. I usually use a normal first/last range + of 4000 to 5000, and a hiport range of 49152 to 65535, then block + everything under 4000 off in my firewall (except for certain + specific internet-accessible ports, of course). + + Another common DOS attack is called a springboard attack + – to attack a server in a manner that causes the server to + generate responses which then overload the server, the local + network, or some other machine. The most common attack of this + nature is the ICMP ping broadcast attack. + The attacker spoofs ping packets sent to your LAN's broadcast + address with the source IP address set to the actual machine they + wish to attack. If your border routers are not configured to + stomp on ping's to broadcast addresses, your LAN winds up + generating sufficient responses to the spoofed source address to + saturate the victim, especially when the attacker uses the same + trick on several dozen broadcast addresses over several dozen + different networks at once. Broadcast attacks of over a hundred + and twenty megabits have been measured. A second common + springboard attack is against the ICMP error reporting system. + By constructing packets that generate ICMP error responses, an + attacker can saturate a server's incoming network and cause the + server to saturate its outgoing network with ICMP responses. This + type of attack can also crash the server by running it out of + mbuf's, especially if the server cannot drain the ICMP responses + it generates fast enough. The FreeBSD kernel has a new kernel + compile option called ICMP_BANDLIM which limits the effectiveness + of these sorts of attacks. The last major class of springboard + attacks is related to certain internal inetd services such as the + udp echo service. An attacker simply spoofs a UDP packet with the + source address being server A's echo port, and the destination + address being server B's echo port, where server A and B are both + on your LAN. The two servers then bounce this one packet back and + forth between each other. The attacker can overload both servers + and their LANs simply by injecting a few packets in this manner. + Similar problems exist with the internal chargen port. A + competent sysadmin will turn off all of these inetd-internal test + services. + + Spoofed packet attacks may also be used to overload the kernel + route cache. Refer to the net.inet.ip.rtexpire, + rtminexpire, and rtmaxcache + sysctl parameters. A spoofed packet attack + that uses a random source IP will cause the kernel to generate a + temporary cached route in the route table, viewable with + netstat -rna | fgrep W3. These routes + typically timeout in 1600 seconds or so. If the kernel detects + that the cached route table has gotten too big it will dynamically + reduce the rtexpire but will never decrease it to less then + rtminexpire. There are two problems: + + + + The kernel does not react quickly enough when a lightly + loaded server is suddenly attacked. + + + + The rtminexpire is not low enough for + the kernel to survive a sustained attack. + + + + If your servers are connected to the internet via a T3 or + better it may be prudent to manually override both + rtexpire and rtminexpire + via &man.sysctl.8;. Never set either parameter to zero (unless + you want to crash the machine :-). Setting both + parameters to 2 seconds should be sufficient to protect the route + table from attack. + + + + Access Issues with Kerberos and SSH + + There are a few issues with both kerberos and + ssh that need to be addressed if you + intend to use them. Kerberos V is an excellent authentication + protocol but the kerberized telnet and + rlogin suck rocks. There are bugs that + make them unsuitable for dealing with binary streams. Also, by + default kerberos does not encrypt a session unless you use the + option. ssh + encrypts everything by default. + + ssh works quite well in every + respect except that it forwards encryption keys by default. What + this means is that if you have a secure workstation holding keys + that give you access to the rest of the system, and you + ssh to an unsecure machine, your keys + becomes exposed. The actual keys themselves are not exposed, but + ssh installs a forwarding port for the + duration of your login and if a hacker has broken root on the + unsecure machine he can utilize that port to use your keys to gain + access to any other machine that your keys unlock. + + We recommend that you use ssh in + combination with kerberos whenever possible for staff logins. + ssh can be compiled with kerberos + support. This reduces your reliance on potentially exposable + ssh keys while at the same time + protecting passwords via kerberos. ssh + keys should only be used for automated tasks from secure machines + (something that kerberos is unsuited to). We also recommend that + you either turn off key-forwarding in the + ssh configuration, or that you make use + of the from=IP/DOMAIN option that + ssh allows in its + authorized_keys file to make the key only + useable to entities logging in from specific machines. + + DES, MD5, and Crypt + Parts rewritten and updated by &a.unfurl;, 21 March + 2000. + Every user on a UNIX system has a password associated with their account, obviously these passwords need to be known only to the user and the actual operating system. In order to keep these passwords secret, they are encrypted with what is known as a 'one-way hash', that is, they can only be easily encrypted but not decrypted. The only way to get the password is by brute force searching the space of possible passwords. Unfortunately the only secure way to encrypt passwords when UNIX came into being was based on DES, the Data Encryption Standard. This is not such a problem for users that live in the US, but since the source code for DES cannot be exported outside the US, FreeBSD had to find a way to both comply with US law and retain compatibility with all the other UNIX variants that still use DES. The solution was to divide up the encryption libraries so that US users could install the DES libraries and use DES but international users still had an encryption method that could be exported abroad. This is how FreeBSD came to use MD5 as it's default encryption method. Recognizing your crypt mechanism It is pretty easy to identify which encryption method FreeBSD is set up to use. Examining the encrypted passwords in the /etc/master.passwd file is one way. Passwords encrypted with the MD5 hash are longer than those with encrypted with the DES hash and also begin with the characters $1$. DES password strings do not have any particular identifying characteristics, but they are shorter than MD5 passwords, and are coded in a 64-character alphabet which does not include the $ character, so a relatively short string which does not begin with a dollar sign is very likely a DES password. Identifying which library is being used by the programs on your system is easy as well. Any program that uses crypt is linked against libcrypt which for each type of library is a symbolic link to the appropriate implementation. For example, on a system using the DES versions: &prompt.user; ls -l /usr/lib/libcrypt* lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 13 Mar 19 06:56 libcrypt.a -> libdescrypt.a lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 18 Mar 19 06:56 libcrypt.so.2.0 -> libdescrypt.so.2.0 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 15 Mar 19 06:56 libcrypt_p.a -> libdescrypt_p.a On a system using the MD5-based libraries, the same links will be present, but the target will be libscrypt rather than libdescrypt. S/Key S/Key is a one-time password scheme based on a one-way hash function. FreeBSD uses the MD4 hash for compatibility but other systems have used MD5 and DES-MAC. S/Key has been part of the FreeBSD base system since version 1.1.5 and is also used on a growing number of other operating systems. S/Key is a registered trademark of Bell Communications Research, Inc. There are three different sorts of passwords which we will talk about in the discussion below. The first is your usual UNIX-style or Kerberos password; we will call this a “UNIX password”. The second sort is the one-time password which is generated by the S/Key key program and accepted by the keyinit program and the login prompt; we will call this a “one-time password”. The final sort of password is the secret password which you give to the key program (and sometimes the keyinit program) which it uses to generate one-time passwords; we will call it a “secret password” or just unqualified “password”. The secret password does not have anything to do with your UNIX password; they can be the same but this is not reccomended. S/Key secret passwords are not limted to 8 characters like UNIX passwords, they can be as long as you like. Passwords of six or seven word long phrases are fairly common. For the most part, the S/Key system operates completely independently of the UNIX password system. Besides the password, there are two other pieces of data that are important to S/Key. One is what is known as the “seed” or “key” and consists of two letters and five digits. The other is what is called the “iteration count” and is a number between 1 and 100. S/Key creates the one-time password by concatenating the seed and the secret password, then applying the MD4 hash as many times as specified by the iteration count and turning the result into six short English words. These six English words are your one-time password. The login and su programs keep track of the last one-time password used, and the user is authenticated if the hash of the user-provided password is equal to the previous password. Because a one-way hash is used it is impossible to generate future one-time passwords if a sucessfully used password is captured; the interation count is decremented after each sucessfull login to keep the user and the login program in sync. When the iteration count gets down to 1 S/Key must be reinitialized. There are four programs involved in the S/Key system which we will discuss below. The key program accepts an iteration count, a seed, and a secret password, and generates a one-time password. The keyinit program is used to initialized S/Key, and to change passwords, iteration counts, or seeds; it takes either a secret password, or an iteration count, seed, and one-time password. The keyinfo program examines the /etc/skeykeys file and prints out the invoking user's current iteration count and seed. Finally, the login and su programs contain the necessary logic to accept S/Key one-time passwords for authentication. The login program is also capable of disallowing the use of UNIX passwords on connections coming from specified addresses. There are four different sorts of operations we will cover. The first is using the keyinit program over a secure connection to set up S/Key for the first time, or to change your password or seed. The second operation is using the keyinit program over an insecure connection, in conjunction with the key program over a secure connection, to do the same. The third is using the key program to log in over an insecure connection. The fourth is using the key program to generate a number of keys which can be written down or printed out to carry with you when going to some location without secure connections to anywhere. Secure connection initialization To initialize S/Key for the first time, change your password, or change your seed while logged in over a secure connection (e.g., on the console of a machine or via ssh), use the keyinit command without any parameters while logged in as yourself: &prompt.user; keyinit Adding unfurl: Reminder - Only use this method if you are directly connected. If you are using telnet or rlogin exit with no password and use keyinit -s. Enter secret password: Again secret password: ID unfurl s/key is 99 to17757 DEFY CLUB PRO NASH LACE SOFT At the Enter secret password: prompt you should enter a password or phrase. Remember, this is not the password that you will use to login with, this is used to generate your one-time login keys. The “ID” line gives the parameters of your particular S/Key instance; your login name, the iteration count, and seed. When logging in with S/Key, the system will remember these parameters and present them back to you so you do not have to remember them. The last line gives the particular one-time password which corresponds to those parameters and your secret password; if you were to re-login immediately, this one-time password is the one you would use. Insecure connection initialization To initialize S/Key or change your secret password over an insecure connection, you will need to already have a secure connection to some place where you can run the key program; this might be in the form of a desk accessory on a Macintosh, or a shell prompt on a machine you trust. You will also need to make up an iteration count (100 is probably a good value), and you may make up your own seed or use a randomly-generated one. Over on the insecure connection (to the machine you are initializing), use the keyinit -s command: &prompt.user; keyinit -s Updating unfurl: Old key: to17758 Reminder you need the 6 english words from the key command. Enter sequence count from 1 to 9999: 100 Enter new key [default to17759]: s/key 100 to 17759 s/key access password: To accept the default seed (which the keyinit program confusingly calls a key), press return. Then before entering an access password, move over to your secure connection or S/Key desk accessory, and give it the same parameters: &prompt.user; key 100 to17759 Reminder - Do not use this program while logged in via telnet or rlogin. Enter secret password: <secret password> CURE MIKE BANE HIM RACY GORE Now switch back over to the insecure connection, and copy the one-time password generated by key over to the keyinit program: s/key access password:CURE MIKE BANE HIM RACY GORE ID unfurl s/key is 100 to17759 CURE MIKE BANE HIM RACY GORE The rest of the description from the previous section applies here as well. Generating a single one-time password Once you've initialized S/Key, when you login you will be presented with a prompt like this: &prompt.user; telnet example.com Trying 10.0.0.1... Connected to example.com Escape character is '^]'. FreeBSD/i386 (example.com) (ttypa) login: <username> s/key 97 fw13894 Password: As a side note, the S/Key prompt has a useful feature (not shown here): if you press return at the password prompt, the login program will turn echo on, so you can see what you are typing. This can be extremely useful if you are attempting to type in an S/Key by hand, such as from a printout. Also, if this machine were configured to disallow UNIX passwords over a connection from my machine, the prompt would have also included the annotation (s/key required), indicating that only S/Key one-time passwords will be accepted. At this point you need to generate your one-time password to answer this login prompt. This must be done on a trusted system that you can run the key command on. (There are versions of the key program from DOS, Windows and MacOS as well.) The key program needs both the iteration count and the seed as command line options. You can cut-and-paste these right from the login prompt on the machine that you are logging in to. On the trusted system: &prompt.user; key 97 fw13894 Reminder - Do not use this program while logged in via telnet or rlogin. Enter secret password: WELD LIP ACTS ENDS ME HAAG Now that you have your one-time password you can continue logging in: login: <username> s/key 97 fw13894 Password: <return to enable echo> s/key 97 fw13894 Password [echo on]: WELD LIP ACTS ENDS ME HAAG Last login: Tue Mar 21 11:56:41 from 10.0.0.2 ... This is the easiest mechanism if you have a trusted machine. There is a Java S/Key key applet, The Java OTP Calculator, that you can download and run locally on any Java supporting browser. Generating multiple one-time passwords Sometimes you have have to go places where you do not have access to a trusted machine or secure connection. In this case, it is possible to use the key command to generate a number of one-time passwords before hand to be printed out and taken with you. For example: &prompt.user; key -n 5 30 zz99999 Reminder - Do not use this program while logged in via telnet or rlogin. Enter secret password: <secret password> 26: SODA RUDE LEA LIND BUDD SILT 27: JILT SPY DUTY GLOW COWL ROT 28: THEM OW COLA RUNT BONG SCOT 29: COT MASH BARR BRIM NAN FLAG 30: CAN KNEE CAST NAME FOLK BILK The requests five keys in sequence, the specifies what the last iteration number should be. Note that these are printed out in reverse order of eventual use. If you are really paranoid, you might want to write the results down by hand; otherwise you can cut-and-paste into lpr. Note that each line shows both the iteration count and the one-time password; you may still find it handy to scratch off passwords as you use them. Restricting use of UNIX passwords Restrictions can be placed on the use of UNIX passwords based on the host name, user name, terminal port, or IP address of a login session. These restrictions can be found in the configuration file /etc/skey.access. The &man.skey.access.5; manual page has more info on the complete format of the file and also details some security cautions to be aware of before depending on this file for security. If there is no /etc/skey.access file (this is the FreeBSD default), then all users will be allowed to use UNIX passwords. If the file exists, however, then all users will be required to use S/Key unless explicitly permitted to do otherwise by configuration statements in the skey.access file. In all cases, UNIX passwords are permitted on the console. Here is a sample configuration file which illustrates the three most common sorts of configuration statements: permit internet 192.168.0.0 255.255.0.0 permit user fnord permit port ttyd0 The first line (permit internet) allows users whose IP source address (which is vulnerable to spoofing) matches the specified value and mask, to use UNIX passwords. This should not be considered a security mechanism, but rather, a means to remind authorized users that they are using an insecure network and need to use S/Key for authentication. The second line (permit user) allows the specified username, in this case fnord, to use UNIX passwords at any time. Generally speaking, this should only be used for people who are either unable to use the key program, like those with dumb terminals, or those who are uneducable. The third line (permit port) allows all users logging in on the specified terminal line to use UNIX passwords; this would be used for dial-ups. Kerberos Contributed by &a.markm; (based on contribution by &a.md;). Kerberos is a network add-on system/protocol that allows users to authenticate themselves through the services of a secure server. Services such as remote login, remote copy, secure inter-system file copying and other high-risk tasks are made considerably safer and more controllable. The following instructions can be used as a guide on how to set up Kerberos as distributed for FreeBSD. However, you should refer to the relevant manual pages for a complete description. In FreeBSD, the Kerberos is not that from the original 4.4BSD-Lite, distribution, but eBones, which had been previously ported to FreeBSD 1.1.5.1, and was sourced from outside the USA/Canada, and is thus available to system owners outside those countries. For those needing to get a legal foreign distribution of this software, please do not get it from a USA or Canada site. You will get that site in big trouble! A legal copy of this is available from ftp.internat.FreeBSD.org, which is in South Africa and an official FreeBSD mirror site. Creating the initial database This is done on the Kerberos server only. First make sure that you do not have any old Kerberos databases around. You should change to the directory /etc/kerberosIV and check that only the following files are present: &prompt.root; cd /etc/kerberosIV &prompt.root; ls README krb.conf krb.realms If any additional files (such as principal.* or master_key) exist, then use the kdb_destroy command to destroy the old Kerberos database, of if Kerberos is not running, simply delete the extra files. You should now edit the krb.conf and krb.realms files to define your Kerberos realm. In this case the realm will be GRONDAR.ZA and the server is grunt.grondar.za. We edit or create the krb.conf file: &prompt.root; cat krb.conf GRONDAR.ZA GRONDAR.ZA grunt.grondar.za admin server CS.BERKELEY.EDU okeeffe.berkeley.edu ATHENA.MIT.EDU kerberos.mit.edu ATHENA.MIT.EDU kerberos-1.mit.edu ATHENA.MIT.EDU kerberos-2.mit.edu ATHENA.MIT.EDU kerberos-3.mit.edu LCS.MIT.EDU kerberos.lcs.mit.edu TELECOM.MIT.EDU bitsy.mit.edu ARC.NASA.GOV trident.arc.nasa.gov In this case, the other realms do not need to be there. They are here as an example of how a machine may be made aware of multiple realms. You may wish to not include them for simplicity. The first line names the realm in which this system works. The other lines contain realm/host entries. The first item on a line is a realm, and the second is a host in that realm that is acting as a “key distribution centre”. The words admin server following a hosts name means that host also provides an administrative database server. For further explanation of these terms, please consult the Kerberos man pages. Now we have to add grunt.grondar.za to the GRONDAR.ZA realm and also add an entry to put all hosts in the .grondar.za domain in the GRONDAR.ZA realm. The krb.realms file would be updated as follows: &prompt.root; cat krb.realms grunt.grondar.za GRONDAR.ZA .grondar.za GRONDAR.ZA .berkeley.edu CS.BERKELEY.EDU .MIT.EDU ATHENA.MIT.EDU .mit.edu ATHENA.MIT.EDU Again, the other realms do not need to be there. They are here as an example of how a machine may be made aware of multiple realms. You may wish to remove them to simplify things. The first line puts the specific system into the named realm. The rest of the lines show how to default systems of a particular subdomain to a named realm. Now we are ready to create the database. This only needs to run on the Kerberos server (or Key Distribution Centre). Issue the kdb_init command to do this: &prompt.root; kdb_init Realm name [default ATHENA.MIT.EDU ]: GRONDAR.ZA You will be prompted for the database Master Password. It is important that you NOT FORGET this password. Enter Kerberos master key: Now we have to save the key so that servers on the local machine can pick it up. Use the kstash command to do this. &prompt.root; kstash Enter Kerberos master key: Current Kerberos master key version is 1. Master key entered. BEWARE! This saves the encrypted master password in /etc/kerberosIV/master_key. Making it all run Two principals need to be added to the database for each system that will be secured with Kerberos. Their names are kpasswd and rcmd These two principals are made for each system, with the instance being the name of the individual system. These daemons, kpasswd and rcmd allow other systems to change Kerberos passwords and run commands like rcp, rlogin and rsh. Now let's add these entries: &prompt.root; kdb_edit Opening database... Enter Kerberos master key: Current Kerberos master key version is 1. Master key entered. BEWARE! Previous or default values are in [brackets] , enter return to leave the same, or new value. Principal name: passwd Instance: grunt <Not found>, Create [y] ? y Principal: passwd, Instance: grunt, kdc_key_ver: 1 New Password: <---- enter RANDOM here Verifying password New Password: <---- enter RANDOM here Random password [y] ? y Principal's new key version = 1 Expiration date (enter yyyy-mm-dd) [ 2000-01-01 ] ? Max ticket lifetime (*5 minutes) [ 255 ] ? Attributes [ 0 ] ? Edit O.K. Principal name: rcmd Instance: grunt <Not found>, Create [y] ? Principal: rcmd, Instance: grunt, kdc_key_ver: 1 New Password: <---- enter RANDOM here Verifying password New Password: <---- enter RANDOM here Random password [y] ? Principal's new key version = 1 Expiration date (enter yyyy-mm-dd) [ 2000-01-01 ] ? Max ticket lifetime (*5 minutes) [ 255 ] ? Attributes [ 0 ] ? Edit O.K. Principal name: <---- null entry here will cause an exit Creating the server file We now have to extract all the instances which define the services on each machine. For this we use the ext_srvtab command. This will create a file which must be copied or moved by secure means to each Kerberos client's /etc/kerberosIV directory. This file must be present on each server and client, and is crucial to the operation of Kerberos. &prompt.root; ext_srvtab grunt Enter Kerberos master key: Current Kerberos master key version is 1. Master key entered. BEWARE! Generating 'grunt-new-srvtab'.... Now, this command only generates a temporary file which must be renamed to srvtab so that all the server can pick it up. Use the mv command to move it into place on the original system: &prompt.root; mv grunt-new-srvtab srvtab If the file is for a client system, and the network is not deemed safe, then copy the client-new-srvtab to removable media and transport it by secure physical means. Be sure to rename it to srvtab in the client's /etc/kerberosIV directory, and make sure it is mode 600: &prompt.root; mv grumble-new-srvtab srvtab &prompt.root; chmod 600 srvtab Populating the database We now have to add some user entries into the database. First let's create an entry for the user jane. Use the kdb_edit command to do this: &prompt.root; kdb_edit Opening database... Enter Kerberos master key: Current Kerberos master key version is 1. Master key entered. BEWARE! Previous or default values are in [brackets] , enter return to leave the same, or new value. Principal name: jane Instance: <Not found>, Create [y] ? y Principal: jane, Instance: , kdc_key_ver: 1 New Password: <---- enter a secure password here Verifying password New Password: <---- re-enter the password here Principal's new key version = 1 Expiration date (enter yyyy-mm-dd) [ 2000-01-01 ] ? Max ticket lifetime (*5 minutes) [ 255 ] ? Attributes [ 0 ] ? Edit O.K. Principal name: <---- null entry here will cause an exit Testing it all out First we have to start the Kerberos daemons. NOTE that if you have correctly edited your /etc/rc.conf then this will happen automatically when you reboot. This is only necessary on the Kerberos server. Kerberos clients will automagically get what they need from the /etc/kerberosIV directory. &prompt.root; kerberos & Kerberos server starting Sleep forever on error Log file is /var/log/kerberos.log Current Kerberos master key version is 1. Master key entered. BEWARE! Current Kerberos master key version is 1 Local realm: GRONDAR.ZA &prompt.root; kadmind -n & KADM Server KADM0.0A initializing Please do not use 'kill -9' to kill this job, use a regular kill instead Current Kerberos master key version is 1. Master key entered. BEWARE! Now we can try using the kinit command to get a ticket for the id jane that we created above: &prompt.user; kinit jane MIT Project Athena (grunt.grondar.za) Kerberos Initialization for "jane" Password: Try listing the tokens using klist to see if we really have them: &prompt.user; klist Ticket file: /tmp/tkt245 Principal: jane@GRONDAR.ZA Issued Expires Principal Apr 30 11:23:22 Apr 30 19:23:22 krbtgt.GRONDAR.ZA@GRONDAR.ZA Now try changing the password using passwd to check if the kpasswd daemon can get authorization to the Kerberos database: &prompt.user; passwd realm GRONDAR.ZA Old password for jane: New Password for jane: Verifying password New Password for jane: Password changed. Adding <command>su</command> privileges Kerberos allows us to give each user who needs root privileges their own separate supassword. We could now add an id which is authorized to su to root. This is controlled by having an instance of root associated with a principal. Using kdb_edit we can create the entry jane.root in the Kerberos database: &prompt.root; kdb_edit Opening database... Enter Kerberos master key: Current Kerberos master key version is 1. Master key entered. BEWARE! Previous or default values are in [brackets] , enter return to leave the same, or new value. Principal name: jane Instance: root <Not found>, Create [y] ? y Principal: jane, Instance: root, kdc_key_ver: 1 New Password: <---- enter a SECURE password here Verifying password New Password: <---- re-enter the password here Principal's new key version = 1 Expiration date (enter yyyy-mm-dd) [ 2000-01-01 ] ? Max ticket lifetime (*5 minutes) [ 255 ] ? 12 <--- Keep this short! Attributes [ 0 ] ? Edit O.K. Principal name: <---- null entry here will cause an exit Now try getting tokens for it to make sure it works: &prompt.root; kinit jane.root MIT Project Athena (grunt.grondar.za) Kerberos Initialization for "jane.root" Password: Now we need to add the user to root's .klogin file: &prompt.root; cat /root/.klogin jane.root@GRONDAR.ZA Now try doing the su: &prompt.user; su Password: and take a look at what tokens we have: &prompt.root; klist Ticket file: /tmp/tkt_root_245 Principal: jane.root@GRONDAR.ZA Issued Expires Principal May 2 20:43:12 May 3 04:43:12 krbtgt.GRONDAR.ZA@GRONDAR.ZA Using other commands In an earlier example, we created a principal called jane with an instance root. This was based on a user with the same name as the principal, and this is a Kerberos default; that a <principal>.<instance> of the form <username>.root will allow that <username> to su to root if the necessary entries are in the .klogin file in root's home directory: &prompt.root; cat /root/.klogin jane.root@GRONDAR.ZA Likewise, if a user has in their own home directory lines of the form: &prompt.user; cat ~/.klogin jane@GRONDAR.ZA jack@GRONDAR.ZA This allows anyone in the GRONDAR.ZA realm who has authenticated themselves to jane or jack (via kinit, see above) access to rlogin to jane's account or files on this system (grunt) via rlogin, rsh or rcp. For example, Jane now logs into another system, using Kerberos: &prompt.user; kinit MIT Project Athena (grunt.grondar.za) Password: %prompt.user; rlogin grunt Last login: Mon May 1 21:14:47 from grumble Copyright (c) 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD BUILT-19950429 (GR386) #0: Sat Apr 29 17:50:09 SAT 1995 Or Jack logs into Jane's account on the same machine (Jane having set up the .klogin file as above, and the person in charge of Kerberos having set up principal jack with a null instance: &prompt.user; kinit &prompt.user; rlogin grunt -l jane MIT Project Athena (grunt.grondar.za) Password: Last login: Mon May 1 21:16:55 from grumble Copyright (c) 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD BUILT-19950429 (GR386) #0: Sat Apr 29 17:50:09 SAT 1995 Firewalls Contributed by &a.gpalmer; and &a.alex;. Firewalls are an area of increasing interest for people who are connected to the Internet, and are even finding applications on private networks to provide enhanced security. This section will hopefully explain what firewalls are, how to use them, and how to use the facilities provided in the FreeBSD kernel to implement them. People often think that having a firewall between your internal network and the “Big Bad Internet” will solve all your security problems. It may help, but a poorly setup firewall system is more of a security risk than not having one at all. A firewall can add another layer of security to your systems, but it cannot stop a really determined cracker from penetrating your internal network. If you let internal security lapse because you believe your firewall to be impenetrable, you have just made the crackers job that much easier. What is a firewall? There are currently two distinct types of firewalls in common use on the Internet today. The first type is more properly called a packet filtering router, where the kernel on a multi-homed machine chooses whether to forward or block packets based on a set of rules. The second type, known as a proxy server, relies on daemons to provide authentication and to forward packets, possibly on a multi-homed machine which has kernel packet forwarding disabled. Sometimes sites combine the two types of firewalls, so that only a certain machine (known as a bastion host) is allowed to send packets through a packet filtering router onto an internal network. Proxy services are run on the bastion host, which are generally more secure than normal authentication mechanisms. FreeBSD comes with a kernel packet filter (known as IPFW), which is what the rest of this section will concentrate on. Proxy servers can be built on FreeBSD from third party software, but there is such a variety of proxy servers available that it would be impossible to cover them in this document. Packet filtering routers A router is a machine which forwards packets between two or more networks. A packet filtering router has an extra piece of code in its kernel which compares each packet to a list of rules before deciding if it should be forwarded or not. Most modern IP routing software has packet filtering code within it that defaults to forwarding all packets. To enable the filters, you need to define a set of rules for the filtering code so it can decide if the packet should be allowed to pass or not. To decide whether a packet should be passed on, the code looks through its set of rules for a rule which matches the contents of this packets headers. Once a match is found, the rule action is obeyed. The rule action could be to drop the packet, to forward the packet, or even to send an ICMP message back to the originator. Only the first match counts, as the rules are searched in order. Hence, the list of rules can be referred to as a “rule chain”. The packet matching criteria varies depending on the software used, but typically you can specify rules which depend on the source IP address of the packet, the destination IP address, the source port number, the destination port number (for protocols which support ports), or even the packet type (UDP, TCP, ICMP, etc). Proxy servers Proxy servers are machines which have had the normal system daemons (telnetd, ftpd, etc) replaced with special servers. These servers are called proxy servers as they normally only allow onward connections to be made. This enables you to run (for example) a proxy telnet server on your firewall host, and people can telnet in to your firewall from the outside, go through some authentication mechanism, and then gain access to the internal network (alternatively, proxy servers can be used for signals coming from the internal network and heading out). Proxy servers are normally more secure than normal servers, and often have a wider variety of authentication mechanisms available, including “one-shot” password systems so that even if someone manages to discover what password you used, they will not be able to use it to gain access to your systems as the password instantly expires. As they do not actually give users access to the host machine, it becomes a lot more difficult for someone to install backdoors around your security system. Proxy servers often have ways of restricting access further, so that only certain hosts can gain access to the servers, and often they can be set up so that you can limit which users can talk to which destination machine. Again, what facilities are available depends largely on what proxy software you choose. What does IPFW allow me to do? IPFW, the software supplied with FreeBSD, is a packet filtering and accounting system which resides in the kernel, and has a user-land control utility, &man.ipfw.8;. Together, they allow you to define and query the rules currently used by the kernel in its routing decisions. There are two related parts to IPFW. The firewall section allows you to perform packet filtering. There is also an IP accounting section which allows you to track usage of your router, based on similar rules to the firewall section. This allows you to see (for example) how much traffic your router is getting from a certain machine, or how much WWW (World Wide Web) traffic it is forwarding. As a result of the way that IPFW is designed, you can use IPFW on non-router machines to perform packet filtering on incoming and outgoing connections. This is a special case of the more general use of IPFW, and the same commands and techniques should be used in this situation. Enabling IPFW on FreeBSD As the main part of the IPFW system lives in the kernel, you will need to add one or more options to your kernel configuration file, depending on what facilities you want, and recompile your kernel. See reconfiguring the kernel for more details on how to recompile your kernel. There are currently three kernel configuration options relevant to IPFW: options IPFIREWALL Compiles into the kernel the code for packet filtering. options IPFIREWALL_VERBOSE Enables code to allow logging of packets through &man.syslogd.8;. Without this option, even if you specify that packets should be logged in the filter rules, nothing will happen. options IPFIREWALL_VERBOSE_LIMIT=10 Limits the number of packets logged through &man.syslogd.8; on a per entry basis. You may wish to use this option in hostile environments in which you want to log firewall activity, but do not want to be open to a denial of service attack via syslog flooding. When a chain entry reaches the packet limit specified, logging is turned off for that particular entry. To resume logging, you will need to reset the associated counter using the &man.ipfw.8; utility: &prompt.root; ipfw zero 4500 Where 4500 is the chain entry you wish to continue logging. Previous versions of FreeBSD contained an IPFIREWALL_ACCT option. This is now obsolete as the firewall code automatically includes accounting facilities. Configuring IPFW The configuration of the IPFW software is done through the &man.ipfw.8; utility. The syntax for this command looks quite complicated, but it is relatively simple once you understand its structure. There are currently four different command categories used by the utility: addition/deletion, listing, flushing, and clearing. Addition/deletion is used to build the rules that control how packets are accepted, rejected, and logged. Listing is used to examine the contents of your rule set (otherwise known as the chain) and packet counters (accounting). Flushing is used to remove all entries from the chain. Clearing is used to zero out one or more accounting entries. Altering the IPFW rules The syntax for this form of the command is: ipfw -N command index action log protocol addresses options There is one valid flag when using this form of the command: -N Resolve addresses and service names in output. The command given can be shortened to the shortest unique form. The valid commands are: add Add an entry to the firewall/accounting rule list delete Delete an entry from the firewall/accounting rule list Previous versions of IPFW used separate firewall and accounting entries. The present version provides packet accounting with each firewall entry. If an index value is supplied, it used to place the entry at a specific point in the chain. Otherwise, the entry is placed at the end of the chain at an index 100 greater than the last chain entry (this does not include the default policy, rule 65535, deny). The log option causes matching rules to be output to the system console if the kernel was compiled with IPFIREWALL_VERBOSE. Valid actions are: reject Drop the packet, and send an ICMP host or port unreachable (as appropriate) packet to the source. allow Pass the packet on as normal. (aliases: pass and accept) deny Drop the packet. The source is not notified via an ICMP message (thus it appears that the packet never arrived at the destination). count Update packet counters but do not allow/deny the packet based on this rule. The search continues with the next chain entry. Each action will be recognized by the shortest unambiguous prefix. The protocols which can be specified are: all Matches any IP packet icmp Matches ICMP packets tcp Matches TCP packets udp Matches UDP packets The address specification is: from address/maskport to address/maskport via interface You can only specify port in conjunction with protocols which support ports (UDP and TCP). The is optional and may specify the IP address or domain name of a local IP interface, or an interface name (e.g. ed0) to match only packets coming through this interface. Interface unit numbers can be specified with an optional wildcard. For example, ppp* would match all kernel PPP interfaces. The syntax used to specify an address/mask is: address or address/mask-bits or address:mask-pattern A valid hostname may be specified in place of the IP address. is a decimal number representing how many bits in the address mask should be set. e.g. specifying 192.216.222.1/24 will create a mask which will allow any address in a class C subnet (in this case, 192.216.222) to be matched. is an IP address which will be logically AND'ed with the address given. The keyword any may be used to specify “any IP address”. The port numbers to be blocked are specified as: port,port,port… to specify either a single port or a list of ports, or port-port to specify a range of ports. You may also combine a single range with a list, but the range must always be specified first. The options available are: frag Matches if the packet is not the first fragment of the datagram. in Matches if the packet is on the way in. out Matches if the packet is on the way out. ipoptions spec Matches if the IP header contains the comma separated list of options specified in spec. The supported list of IP options are: ssrr (strict source route), lsrr (loose source route), rr (record packet route), and ts (timestamp). The absence of a particular option may be denoted with a leading !. established Matches if the packet is part of an already established TCP connection (i.e. it has the RST or ACK bits set). You can optimize the performance of the firewall by placing established rules early in the chain. setup Matches if the packet is an attempt to establish a TCP connection (the SYN bit set is set but the ACK bit is not). tcpflags flags Matches if the TCP header contains the comma separated list of flags. The supported flags are fin, syn, rst, psh, ack, and urg. The absence of a particular flag may be indicated by a leading !. icmptypes types Matches if the ICMP type is present in the list types. The list may be specified as any combination of ranges and/or individual types separated by commas. Commonly used ICMP types are: 0 echo reply (ping reply), 3 destination unreachable, 5 redirect, 8 echo request (ping request), and 11 time exceeded (used to indicate TTL expiration as with &man.traceroute.8;). Listing the IPFW rules The syntax for this form of the command is: ipfw -a -t -N l There are three valid flags when using this form of the command: -a While listing, show counter values. This option is the only way to see accounting counters. -t Display the last match times for each chain entry. The time listing is incompatible with the input syntax used by the &man.ipfw.8; utility. -N Attempt to resolve given addresses and service names. Flushing the IPFW rules The syntax for flushing the chain is: ipfw flush This causes all entries in the firewall chain to be removed except the fixed default policy enforced by the kernel (index 65535). Use caution when flushing rules, the default deny policy will leave your system cut off from the network until allow entries are added to the chain. Clearing the IPFW packet counters The syntax for clearing one or more packet counters is: ipfw zero index When used without an index argument, all packet counters are cleared. If an index is supplied, the clearing operation only affects a specific chain entry. Example commands for ipfw This command will deny all packets from the host evil.crackers.org to the telnet port of the host nice.people.org by being forwarded by the router: &prompt.root ipfw add deny tcp from evil.crackers.org to nice.people.org 23 The next example denies and logs any TCP traffic from the entire crackers.org network (a class C) to the nice.people.org machine (any port). &prompt.root; ipfw add deny log tcp from evil.crackers.org/24 to nice.people.org If you do not want people sending X sessions to your internal network (a subnet of a class C), the following command will do the necessary filtering: &prompt.root; ipfw add deny tcp from any to my.org/28 6000 setup To see the accounting records: &prompt.root; ipfw -a list or in the short form &prompt.root; ipfw -a l You can also see the last time a chain entry was matched with: &prompt.root; ipfw -at l Building a packet filtering firewall The following suggestions are just that: suggestions. The requirements of each firewall are different and I cannot tell you how to build a firewall to meet your particular requirements. When initially setting up your firewall, unless you have a test bench setup where you can configure your firewall host in a controlled environment, I strongly recommend you use the logging version of the commands and enable logging in the kernel. This will allow you to quickly identify problem areas and cure them without too much disruption. Even after the initial setup phase is complete, I recommend using the logging for of `deny' as it allows tracing of possible attacks and also modification of the firewall rules if your requirements alter. If you use the logging versions of the accept command, it can generate large amounts of log data as one log line will be generated for every packet that passes through the firewall, so large ftp/http transfers, etc, will really slow the system down. It also increases the latencies on those packets as it requires more work to be done by the kernel before the packet can be passed on. syslogd with also start using up a lot more processor time as it logs all the extra data to disk, and it could quite easily fill the partition /var/log is located on. You should enable your firewall from /etc/rc.conf.local or /etc/rc.conf. The associated manpage explains which knobs to fiddle and lists some preset firewall configurations. If you do not use a preset configuration, ipfw list will output the current ruleset into a file that you can pass to rc.conf. If you do not use /etc/rc.conf.local or /etc/rc.conf to enable your firewall, it is important to make sure your firewall is enabled before any IP interfaces are configured. The next problem is what your firewall should actually do! This is largely dependent on what access to your network you want to allow from the outside, and how much access to the outside world you want to allow from the inside. Some general rules are: Block all incoming access to ports below 1024 for TCP. This is where most of the security sensitive services are, like finger, SMTP (mail) and telnet. Block all incoming UDP traffic. There are very few useful services that travel over UDP, and what useful traffic there is is normally a security threat (e.g. Suns RPC and NFS protocols). This has its disadvantages also, since UDP is a connectionless protocol, denying incoming UDP traffic also blocks the replies to outgoing UDP traffic. This can cause a problem for people (on the inside) using external archie (prospero) servers. If you want to allow access to archie, you'll have to allow packets coming from ports 191 and 1525 to any internal UDP port through the firewall. ntp is another service you may consider allowing through, which comes from port 123. Block traffic to port 6000 from the outside. Port 6000 is the port used for access to X11 servers, and can be a security threat (especially if people are in the habit of doing xhost + on their workstations). X11 can actually use a range of ports starting at 6000, the upper limit being how many X displays you can run on the machine. The upper limit as defined by RFC 1700 (Assigned Numbers) is 6063. Check what ports any internal servers use (e.g. SQL servers, etc). It is probably a good idea to block those as well, as they normally fall outside the 1-1024 range specified above. Another checklist for firewall configuration is available from CERT at ftp://ftp.cert.org/pub/tech_tips/packet_filtering As I said above, these are only guidelines. You will have to decide what filter rules you want to use on your firewall yourself. I cannot accept ANY responsibility if someone breaks into your network, even if you follow the advice given above. OpenSSL As of FreeBSD 4.0, the OpenSSL toolkit is a part of the base system. OpenSSL provides a general-purpose cryptography library, as well as the Secure Sockets Layer v2/v3 (SSLv2/SSLv3) and Transport Layer Security v1 (TLSv1) network security protocols. However, some of the algorithms (specifically, RSA and IDEA) included in OpenSSL are protected by patents in the USA and elsewhere, and are not available for unrestricted use (in particular, IDEA is not available at all in FreeBSD's version of OpenSSL). As a result, FreeBSD has available two different versions of the OpenSSL RSA libraries depending on geographical location (USA/non-USA). Source Code Installations OpenSSL is part of the src-crypto and src-securecvsup collections. See the Obtaining FreeBSD section for more information about obtaining and updating FreeBSD source code. International (Non-USA) Users People who are located outside the USA, and who obtain their crypto sources from internat.FreeBSD.org (the International Crypto Repository) or an international mirror site, will build a version of OpenSSL which includes the “native” OpenSSL implementation of RSA, but does not include IDEA, because the latter is restricted in certain locations elsewhere in the world. In the future a more flexible geographical identification system may allow building of IDEA in countries for which it is not restricted. Please be aware of any local restrictions on the import, use and redistribution of cryptography which may exist in your country. USA Users As noted above, RSA is patented in the USA, with terms preventing general use without an appropriate license. Therefore the standard OpenSSL RSA code may not be used in the USA, and has been removed from the version of OpenSSL carried on USA mirror sites. The RSA patent is due to expire on September 20, 2000, at which time it is intended to add the “full” RSA code back to the USA version of OpenSSL. However (and fortunately), the RSA patent holder (RSA Security, has provided a “RSA reference implementation” toolkit (RSAREF) which is available for certain classes of use, including non-commercial use (see the RSAREF license for their definition of non-commercial). If you meet the conditions of the RSAREF license and wish to use it in conjunction with OpenSSL to provide RSA support, you can install the rsaref port, which is located in /usr/ports/security/rsaref, or the rsaref-2.0 package. The OpenSSL library will then automatically detect and use the RSAREF libraries. Please obtain legal advice if you are unsure of your compliance with the license terms. The RSAREF implementation is inferior to the “native&rdquo OpenSSL implementation (it is much slower, and cannot be used with keys larger than 1024 bits). If you are not located in the USA then you are doing yourself a disadvantage by using RSAREF. Users who have purchased an appropriate RSA source code license from RSA Security may use the International version of OpenSSL described above to obtain native RSA support. IDEA code is also removed from the USA version of OpenSSL for patent reasons. Binary Installations If your FreeBSD installation was a binary installation (e.g., installed from the Walnut Creek CDROM, or from a snapshot downloaded from ftp.FreeBSD.org) and you selected to install the crypto collection, then the sysinstall utility will automatically select the correct version to install during the installation process. If the international version was selected but could not be installed during sysinstall (e.g. you have not configured network access, and the version must be downloaded from a FTP site) then you can add the international RSA library after installation as a package. The librsaintl package contains the RSA code for International (non-USA) users. This is not legal for use in the USA, but international users should use this version because the RSA implementation is faster and more flexible. It is available from ftp.internat.FreeBSD.org and does not require RSAREF. IPsec Contributed by &a.shin;, 5 March 2000. IPsec mechanism provides secure communication either for IP layer and socket layer communication. This section should explain how to use them. About IPsec implementation, please refer section 23.5.4. The current IPsec implementation supports both transport mode and tunnel mode. However, tunnel mode comes with some restrictions. http://www.kame.net/newsletter/ has more comprehensive examples. Transport mode example with IPv4 Let's setup security association to deploy a secure channel between HOST A (10.2.3.4) and HOST B (10.6.7.8). Here we show a little complicated example. From HOST A to HOST B, only old AH is used. From HOST B to HOST A, new AH and new ESP are combined. Now we should choose algorithm to be used corresponding to "AH"/"new AH"/"ESP"/"new ESP". Please refer to the &man.setkey.8; man page to know algorithm names. Our choice is MD5 for AH, new-HMAC-SHA1 for new AH, and new-DES-expIV with 8 byte IV for new ESP. Key length highly depends on each algorithm. For example, key length must be equal to 16 bytes for MD5, 20 for new-HMAC-SHA1, and 8 for new-DES-expIV. Now we choose "MYSECRETMYSECRET", "KAMEKAMEKAMEKAMEKAME", "PASSWORD", respectively. OK, let's assign SPI (Security Parameter Index) for each protocol. Please note that we need 3 SPIs for this secure channel since three security headers are produced (one for from HOST A to HOST B, two for from HOST B to HOST A). Please also note that SPI MUST be greater than or equal to 256. We choose, 1000, 2000, and 3000, respectively. (1) HOST A ------> HOST B (1)PROTO=AH ALG=MD5(RFC1826) KEY=MYSECRETMYSECRET SPI=1000 (2.1) HOST A <------ HOST B <------ (2.2) (2.1) PROTO=AH ALG=new-HMAC-SHA1(new AH) KEY=KAMEKAMEKAMEKAMEKAME SPI=2000 (2.2) PROTO=ESP ALG=new-DES-expIV(new ESP) IV length = 8 KEY=PASSWORD SPI=3000 Now, let's setup security association. Execute &man.setkey.8; on both HOST A and B: &prompt.root; setkey -c add 10.2.3.4 10.6.7.8 ah-old 1000 -m transport -A keyed-md5 "MYSECRETMYSECRET" ; add 10.6.7.8 10.2.3.4 ah 2000 -m transport -A hmac-sha1 "KAMEKAMEKAMEKAMEKAME" ; add 10.6.7.8 10.2.3.4 esp 3000 -m transport -E des-cbc "PASSWORD" ; ^D Actually, IPsec communication doesn't process until security policy entries will be defined. In this case, you must setup each host. At A: &prompt.root; setkey -c spdadd 10.2.3.4 10.6.7.8 any -P out ipsec ah/transport/10.2.3.4-10.6.7.8/require ; ^D At B: &prompt.root; setkey -c spdadd 10.6.7.8 10.2.3.4 any -P out ipsec esp/transport/10.6.7.8-10.2.3.4/require ; spdadd 10.6.7.8 10.2.3.4 any -P out ipsec ah/transport/10.6.7.8-10.2.3.4/require ; ^D HOST A --------------------------------------> HOST E 10.2.3.4 10.6.7.8 | | ========== old AH keyed-md5 ==========> <========= new AH hmac-sha1 =========== <========= new ESP des-cbc ============ Transport mode example with IPv6 Another example using IPv6. ESP transport mode is recommended for TCP port number 110 between Host-A and Host-B. ============ ESP ============ | | Host-A Host-B fec0::10 -------------------- fec0::11 Encryption algorithm is blowfish-cbc whose key is "kamekame", and authentication algorithm is hmac-sha1 whose key is "this is the test key". Configuration at Host-A: &prompt.root; setkey -c <<EOF spdadd fec0::10[any] fec0::11[110] tcp -P out ipsec esp/transport/fec0::10-fec0::11/use ; spdadd fec0::11[110] fec0::10[any] tcp -P in ipsec esp/transport/fec0::11-fec0::10/use ; add fec0::10 fec0::11 esp 0x10001 -m transport -E blowfish-cbc "kamekame" -A hmac-sha1 "this is the test key" ; add fec0::11 fec0::10 esp 0x10002 -m transport -E blowfish-cbc "kamekame" -A hmac-sha1 "this is the test key" ; EOF and at Host-B: &prompt.root; setkey -c <<EOF spdadd fec0::11[110] fec0::10[any] tcp -P out ipsec esp/transport/fec0::11-fec0::10/use ; spdadd fec0::10[any] fec0::11[110] tcp -P in ipsec esp/transport/fec0::10-fec0::11/use ; add fec0::10 fec0::11 esp 0x10001 -m transport -E blowfish-cbc "kamekame" -A hmac-sha1 "this is the test key" ; add fec0::11 fec0::10 esp 0x10002 -m transport -E blowfish-cbc "kamekame" -A hmac-sha1 "this is the test key" ; EOF Note the direction of SP. Tunnel mode example with IPv4 Tunnel mode between two security gateways Security protocol is old AH tunnel mode, i.e. specified by RFC1826, with keyed-md5 whose key is "this is the test" as authentication algorithm. ======= AH ======= | | Network-A Gateway-A Gateway-B Network-B 10.0.1.0/24 ---- 172.16.0.1 ----- 172.16.0.2 ---- 10.0.2.0/24 Configuration at Gateway-A: &prompt.root; setkey -c <<EOF spdadd 10.0.1.0/24 10.0.2.0/24 any -P out ipsec ah/tunnel/172.16.0.1-172.16.0.2/require ; spdadd 10.0.2.0/24 10.0.1.0/24 any -P in ipsec ah/tunnel/172.16.0.2-172.16.0.1/require ; add 172.16.0.1 172.16.0.2 ah-old 0x10003 -m any -A keyed-md5 "this is the test" ; add 172.16.0.2 172.16.0.1 ah-old 0x10004 -m any -A keyed-md5 "this is the test" ; EOF If port number field is omitted such above then "[any]" is employed. `-m' specifies the mode of SA to be used. "-m any" means wild-card of mode of security protocol. You can use this SA for both tunnel and transport mode. and at Gateway-B: &prompt.root; setkey -c <<EOF spdadd 10.0.2.0/24 10.0.1.0/24 any -P out ipsec ah/tunnel/172.16.0.2-172.16.0.1/require ; spdadd 10.0.1.0/24 10.0.2.0/24 any -P in ipsec ah/tunnel/172.16.0.1-172.16.0.2/require ; add 172.16.0.1 172.16.0.2 ah-old 0x10003 -m any -A keyed-md5 "this is the test" ; add 172.16.0.2 172.16.0.1 ah-old 0x10004 -m any -A keyed-md5 "this is the test" ; EOF Making SA bundle between two security gateways AH transport mode and ESP tunnel mode is required between Gateway-A and Gateway-B. In this case, ESP tunnel mode is applied first, and AH transport mode is next. ========== AH ========= | ======= ESP ===== | | | | | Network-A Gateway-A Gateway-B Network-B fec0:0:0:1::/64 --- fec0:0:0:1::1 ---- fec0:0:0:2::1 --- fec0:0:0:2::/64 Tunnel mode example with IPv6 Encryption algorithm is 3des-cbc, and authentication algorithm for ESP is hmac-sha1. Authentication algorithm for AH is hmac-md5. Configuration at Gateway-A: &prompt.root; setkey -c <<EOF spdadd fec0:0:0:1::/64 fec0:0:0:2::/64 any -P out ipsec esp/tunnel/fec0:0:0:1::1-fec0:0:0:2::1/require ah/transport/fec0:0:0:1::1-fec0:0:0:2::1/require ; spdadd fec0:0:0:2::/64 fec0:0:0:1::/64 any -P in ipsec esp/tunnel/fec0:0:0:2::1-fec0:0:0:1::1/require ah/transport/fec0:0:0:2::1-fec0:0:0:1::1/require ; add fec0:0:0:1::1 fec0:0:0:2::1 esp 0x10001 -m tunnel -E 3des-cbc "kamekame12341234kame1234" -A hmac-sha1 "this is the test key" ; add fec0:0:0:1::1 fec0:0:0:2::1 ah 0x10001 -m transport -A hmac-md5 "this is the test" ; add fec0:0:0:2::1 fec0:0:0:1::1 esp 0x10001 -m tunnel -E 3des-cbc "kamekame12341234kame1234" -A hmac-sha1 "this is the test key" ; add fec0:0:0:2::1 fec0:0:0:1::1 ah 0x10001 -m transport -A hmac-md5 "this is the test" ; EOF Making SAs with the different end ESP tunnel mode is required between Host-A and Gateway-A. Encryption algorithm is cast128-cbc, and authentication algorithm for ESP is hmac-sha1. ESP transport mode is recommended between Host-A and Host-B. Encryption algorithm is rc5-cbc, and authentication algorithm for ESP is hmac-md5. ================== ESP ================= | ======= ESP ======= | | | | | Host-A Gateway-A Host-B fec0:0:0:1::1 ---- fec0:0:0:2::1 ---- fec0:0:0:2::2 Configuration at Host-A: &prompt.root; setkey -c <<EOF spdadd fec0:0:0:1::1[any] fec0:0:0:2::2[80] tcp -P out ipsec esp/transport/fec0:0:0:1::1-fec0:0:0:2::2/use esp/tunnel/fec0:0:0:1::1-fec0:0:0:2::1/require ; spdadd fec0:0:0:2::1[80] fec0:0:0:1::1[any] tcp -P in ipsec esp/transport/fec0:0:0:2::2-fec0:0:0:l::1/use esp/tunnel/fec0:0:0:2::1-fec0:0:0:1::1/require ; add fec0:0:0:1::1 fec0:0:0:2::2 esp 0x10001 -m transport -E cast128-cbc "12341234" -A hmac-sha1 "this is the test key" ; add fec0:0:0:1::1 fec0:0:0:2::1 esp 0x10002 -E rc5-cbc "kamekame" -A hmac-md5 "this is the test" ; add fec0:0:0:2::2 fec0:0:0:1::1 esp 0x10003 -m transport -E cast128-cbc "12341234" -A hmac-sha1 "this is the test key" ; add fec0:0:0:2::1 fec0:0:0:1::1 esp 0x10004 -E rc5-cbc "kamekame" -A hmac-md5 "this is the test" ; EOF diff --git a/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/handbook/security/chapter.sgml b/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/handbook/security/chapter.sgml index 60859ae9a6..6cc393ebe3 100644 --- a/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/handbook/security/chapter.sgml +++ b/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/handbook/security/chapter.sgml @@ -1,2013 +1,2742 @@ Security - - Parts rewritten and updated by &a.unfurl;, 21 March - 2000. + + Much of this chapter has been taken from the + &man.security.7; man page, originally written by + &a.dillon;. + + + Synopsis + + The following chapter will provide a basic introduction to + system security concepts, some general good rules of thumb, and some + advanced topics such as S/Key, OpenSSL, Kerberos, and others. + + + + Introduction + + Security is a function that begins and ends with the system + administrator. While all BSD UNIX multi-user systems have some + inherent security, the job of building and maintaining additional + security mechanisms to keep those users “honest” is + probably one of the single largest undertakings of the sysadmin. + Machines are only as secure as you make them, and security concerns + are ever competing with the human necessity for convenience. UNIX + systems, in general, are capable of running a huge number of + simultaneous processes and many of these processes operate as + servers – meaning that external entities can connect and talk + to them. As yesterday's mini-computers and mainframes become + today's desktops, and as computers become networked and + internetworked, security becomes an ever bigger issue. + + Security is best implemented through a layered + “onion” approach. In a nutshell, what you want to do is + to create as many layers of security as are convenient and then + carefully monitor the system for intrusions. You do not want to + overbuild your security or you will interefere with the detection + side, and detection is one of the single most important aspects of + any security mechanism. For example, it makes little sense to set + the schg flags (see &man.chflags.1;) on every system binary because + while this may temporarily protect the binaries, it prevents a + hacker who has broken in from making an easily detectable change + that may result in your security mechanisms not detecting the hacker + at all. + + System security also pertains to dealing with various forms of + attack, including attacks that attempt to crash or otherwise make a + system unusable but do not attempt to break root. Security concerns + can be split up into several categories: + + + + Denial of service attacks. + + + + User account compromises. + + + + Root compromise through accessible servers. + + + + Root compromise via user accounts. + + + + Backdoor creation. + + + + A denial of service attack is an action that deprives the + machine of needed resources. Typically, D.O.S. attacks are + brute-force mechanisms that attempt to crash or otherwise make a + machine unusable by overwhelming its servers or network stack. Some + D.O.S. attacks try to take advantages of bugs in the networking + stack to crash a machine with a single packet. The latter can only + be fixed by applying a bug fix to the kernel. Attacks on servers + can often be fixed by properly specifying options to limit the load + the servers incur on the system under adverse conditions. + Brute-force network attacks are harder to deal with. A + spoofed-packet attack, for example, is nearly impossible to stop + short of cutting your system off from the internet. It may not be + able to take your machine down, but it can fill up internet + pipe. + + A user account compromise is even more common then a D.O.S. + attack. Many sysadmins still run standard telnetd, rlogind, rshd, + and ftpd servers on their machines. These servers, by default, do + not operate over encrypted connections. The result is that if you + have any moderate-sized user base, one or more of your users logging + into your system from a remote location (which is the most common + and convenient way to login to a system) will have his or her + password sniffed. The attentive system admin will analyze his + remote access logs looking for suspicious source addresses even for + successful logins. + + One must always assume that once an attacker has access to a + user account, the attacker can break root. However, the reality is + that in a well secured and maintained system, access to a user + account does not necessarily give the attacker access to root. The + distinction is important because without access to root the attacker + cannot generally hide his tracks and may, at best, be able to do + nothing more then mess with the user's files or crash the machine. + User account compromises are very common because users tend not to + take the precautions that sysadmins take. + + System administrators must keep in mind that there are + potentially many ways to break root on a machine. The attacker may + know the root password, the attacker may find a bug in a root-run + server and be able to break root over a network connection to that + server, or the attacker may know of a bug in an suid-root program + that allows the attacker to break root once he has broken into a + user's account. If an attacker has found a way to break root on a + machine, the attacker may not have a need to install Many of the + root holes found and closed to date involve a considerable amount of + work by the hacker to cleanup after himself, so most hackers do + install backdoors. This gives you a convienient way to detect the + hacker. Making it impossible for a hacker to install a backdoor may + actually be detrimental to your security because it will not close + off the hole the hacker found to break in in the first place. + + Security remedies should always be implemented with a + multi-layered “onion peel” approach and can be + categorized as follows: + + + + Securing root and staff accounts. + + + + Securing root – root-run servers and suid/sgid + binaries. + + + + Securing user accounts. + + + + Securing the password file. + + + + Securing the kernel core, raw devices, and + filesystems. + + + + Quick detection of inappropriate changes made to the + system. + + + + Paranoia. + + + + The next section of this chapter will cover the above bullet + items in greater depth. + + + + Securing FreeBSD + + The sections that follow will cover the methods of securing your + FreeBSD system that were mentioned in the last section of this chapter. + + + Securing the root account and staff accounts + + First off, do not bother securing staff accounts if you have + not secured the root account. Most systems have a password + assigned to the root account. The first thing you do is assume + that the password is always compromised. + This does not mean that you should remove the password. The + password is almost always necessary for console access to the + machine. What it does mean is that you should not make it + possible to use the password outside of the console or possibly + even with the &man.su.1; command. For example, make sure that + your pty's are specified as being unsecure in the + /etc/ttys file so that direct root logins + via telnet or rlogin are + disallowed. If using other login services such as + sshd, make sure that direct root logins + are disabled there as well. Consider every access method – + services such as ftp often fall through the cracks. Direct root + logins should only be allowed via the system console. + + Of course, as a sysadmin you have to be able to get to root, + so we open up a few holes. But we make sure these holes require + additional password verification to operate. One way to make root + accessible is to add appropriate staff accounts to the + wheel group (in + /etc/group). The staff members placed in the + wheel group are allowed to + su to root. You should never give staff + members native wheel access by putting them in the + wheel group in their password entry. Staff + accounts should be placed in a staff group, and + then added to the wheel group via the + /etc/group file. Only those staff members + who actually need to have root access should be placed in the + wheel group. It is also possible, when using + an authentication method such as kerberos, to use kerberos's + .k5login file in the root account to allow a + &man.ksu.1; to root without having to place anyone at all in the + wheel group. This may be the better solution + since the wheel mechanism still allows an + intruder to break root if the intruder has gotten hold of your + password file and can break into a staff account. While having + the wheel mechanism is better then having + nothing at all, it is not necessarily the safest option. + + An indirect way to secure the root account is to secure your + staff accounts by using an alternative login access method and + *'ing out the crypted password for the staff + accounts. This way an intruder may be able to steal the password + file but will not be able to break into any staff accounts (or, + indirectly, root, even if root has a crypted password associated + with it). Staff members get into their staff accounts through a + secure login mechanism such as &man.kerberos.1; or &man.ssh.1; + using a private/public key pair. When you use something like + kerberos, you generally must secure the machines which run the + kerberos servers and your desktop workstation. When you use a + public/private key pair with ssh, you + must generally secure the machine you are logging in + from (typically your workstation), but you + can also add an additional layer of protection to the key pair by + password protecting the keypair when you create it with + &man.ssh-keygen.1;. Being able to * out the + passwords for staff accounts also guarantees that staff members can + only login through secure access methods that you have setup. You + can thus force all staff members to use secure, encrypted + connections for all of their sessions which closes an important + hole used by many intruders: That of sniffing the network from an + unrelated, less secure machine. + + The more indirect security mechanisms also assume that you are + logging in from a more restrictive server to a less restrictive + server. For example, if your main box is running all sorts of + servers, your workstation should not be running any. In order for + your workstation to be reasonably secure you should run as few + servers as possible, up to and including no servers at all, and + you should run a password-protected screen blanker. Of course, + given physical access to a workstation an attacker can break any + sort of security you put on it. This is definitely a problem that + you should consider but you should also consider the fact that the + vast majority of break-ins occur remotely, over a network, from + people who do not have physical access to your workstation or + servers. + + Using something like kerberos also gives you the ability to + disable or change the password for a staff account in one place + and have it immediately effect all the machine the staff member + may have an account on. If a staff member's account gets + compromised, the ability to instantly change his password on all + machines should not be underrated. With discrete passwords, + changing a password on N machines can be a mess. You can also + impose re-passwording restrictions with kerberos: not only can a + kerberos ticket be made to timeout after a while, but the kerberos + system can require that the user choose a new password after a + certain period of time (say, once a month). + + + + Securing Root-run Servers and SUID/SGID Binaries + + The prudent sysadmin only runs the servers he needs to, no + more, no less. Be aware that third party servers are often the + most bug-prone. For example, running an old version of imapd or + popper is like giving a universal root ticket out to the entire + world. Never run a server that you have not checked out + carefully. Many servers do not need to be run as root. For + example, the ntalk, + comsat, and + finger daemons can be run in special + user sandboxes. A sandbox isn't perfect unless + you go to a large amount of trouble, but the onion approach to + security still stands: If someone is able to break in through + a server running in a sandbox, they still have to break out of the + sandbox. The more layers the attacker must break through, the + lower the likelihood of his success. Root holes have historically + been found in virtually every server ever run as root, including + basic system servers. If you are running a machine through which + people only login via sshd and never + login via telnetd or + rshd or + rlogind, then turn off those + services! + + FreeBSD now defaults to running + ntalkd, + comsat, and + finger in a sandbox. Another program + which may be a candidate for running in a sandbox is &man.named.8;. + The default rc.conf includes the arguments + necessary to run namedin a sandbox in a + commented-out form. Depending on whether you are installing a new + system or upgrading an existing system, the special user accounts + used by these sandboxes may not be installed. The prudent + sysadmin would research and implement sandboxes for servers + whenever possible. + + There are a number of other servers that typically do not run + in sandboxes: sendmail, + popper, + imapd, ftpd, + and others. There are alternatives to some of these, but + installing them may require more work then you are willing to + perform (the convenience factor strikes again). You may have to + run these servers as root and rely on other mechanisms to detect + break-ins that might occur through them. + + The other big potential root hole in a system are the + suid-root and sgid binaries installed on the system. Most of + these binaries, such as rlogin, reside + in /bin, /sbin, + /usr/bin, or /usr/sbin. + While nothing is 100% safe, the system-default suid and sgid + binaries can be considered reasonably safe. Still, root holes are + occasionally found in these binaries. A root hole was found in + Xlib in 1998 that made + xterm (which is typically suid) + vulnerable. It is better to be safe then sorry and the prudent + sysadmin will restrict suid binaries that only staff should run to + a special group that only staff can access, and get rid of + (chmod 000) any suid binaries that nobody uses. + A server with no display generally does not need an + xterm binary. Sgid binaries can be + almost as dangerous. If an intruder can break an sgid-kmem binary + the intruder might be able to read /dev/kmem + and thus read the crypted password file, potentially compromising + any passworded account. Alternatively an intruder who breaks + group kmem can monitor keystrokes sent through + pty's, including pty's used by users who login through secure + methods. An intruder that breaks the tty group can write to + almost any user's tty. If a user is running a terminal program or + emulator with a keyboard-simulation feature, the intruder can + potentially generate a data stream that causes the user's terminal + to echo a command, which is then run as that user. + + + + Securing User Accounts + + User accounts are usually the most difficult to secure. While + you can impose Draconian access restrictions on your staff and + * out their passwords, you may not be able to + do so with any general user accounts you might have. If you do + have sufficient control then you may win out and be able to secure + the user accounts properly. If not, you simply have to be more + vigilant in your monitoring of those accounts. Use of + ssh and kerberos for user accounts is + more problematic due to the extra administration and technical + support required, but still a very good solution compared to a + crypted password file. + + + + Securing the Password File + + The only sure fire way is to * out as many + passwords as you can and use ssh or + kerberos for access to those accounts. Even though the crypted + password file (/etc/spwd.db) can only be read + by root, it may be possible for an intruder to obtain read access + to that file even if the attacker cannot obtain root-write + access. + + Your security scripts should always check for and report + changes to the password file (see Checking file integrity + below). + + + + Securing the Kernel Core, Raw Devices, and + Filesystems + + If an attacker breaks root he can do just about anything, but + there are certain conveniences. For example, most modern kernels + have a packet sniffing device driver built in. Under FreeBSD it + is called the bpf device. An intruder + will commonly attempt to run a packet sniffer on a compromised + machine. You do not need to give the intruder the capability and + most systems should not have the bpf device compiled in. + + But even if you turn off the bpf device, you still have + /dev/mem and /dev/kmem + to worry about. For that matter, the intruder can still write to + raw disk devices. Also, there is another kernel feature called + the module loader, &man.kldload.8;. An enterprising intruder can + use a KLD module to install his own bpf device or other sniffing + device on a running kernel. To avoid these problems you have to + run the kernel at a higher secure level, at least securelevel 1. + The securelevel can be set with a sysctl on + the kern.securelevel variable. Once you have + set the securelevel to 1, write access to raw devices will be + denied and special chflags flags, such as schg, + will be enforced. You must also ensure that the + schg flag is set on critical startup binaries, + directories, and script files – everything that gets run up + to the point where the securelevel is set. This might be overdoing + it, and upgrading the system is much more difficult when you + operate at a higher secure level. You may compromise and run the + system at a higher secure level but not set the + schg flag for every system file and directory + under the sun. Another possibility is to simply mount + / and /usr read-only. + It should be noted that being too draconian in what you attempt to + protect may prevent the all-important detection of an + intrusion. + + + + Checking File Integrity: Binaires, Configuration Files, + Etc. + + When it comes right down to it, you can only protect your core + system configuration and control files so much before the + convenience factor rears its ugly head. For example, using + chflags to set the schg bit + on most of the files in / and + /usr is probably counterproductive because + while it may protect the files, it also closes a detection window. + The last layer of your security onion is perhaps the most + important – detection. The rest of your security is pretty + much useless (or, worse, presents you with a false sense of + safety) if you cannot detect potential incursions. Half the job + of the onion is to slow down the attacker rather then stop him in + order to give the detection side of the equation a chance to catch + him in the act. + + The best way to detect an incursion is to look for modified, + missing, or unexpected files. The best way to look for modified + files is from another (often centralized) limited-access system. + Writing your security scripts on the extra-secure limited-access + system makes them mostly invisible to potential hackers, and this + is important. In order to take maximum advantage you generally + have to give the limited-access box significant access to the + other machines in the business, usually either by doing a + read-only NFS export of the other machines to the limited-access + box, or by setting up ssh keypairs to + allow the limit-access box to ssh to + the other machines. Except for its network traffic, NFS is the + least visible method – allowing you to monitor the + filesystems on each client box virtually undetected. If your + limited-access server is connected to the client boxes through a + switch, the NFS method is often the better choice. If your + limited-access server is connected to the client boxes through a + hub or through several layers of routing, the NFS method may be + too insecure (network-wise) and using + ssh may be the better choice even with + the audit-trail tracks that ssh + lays. + + Once you give a limit-access box at least read access to the + client systems it is supposed to monitor, you must write scripts + to do the actual monitoring. Given an NFS mount, you can write + scripts out of simple system utilities such as &man.find.1; and + &man.md5.1;. It is best to physically md5 the client-box files + boxes at least once a day, and to test control files such as those + found in /etc and + /usr/local/etc even more often. When + mismatches are found relative to the base md5 information the + limited-access machine knows is valid, it should scream at a + sysadmin to go check it out. A good security script will also + check for inappropriate suid binaries and for new or deleted files + on system partitions such as / and + /usr. + + When using ssh rather then NFS, + writing the security script is much more difficult. You + essentially have to scp the scripts to the client box in order to + run them, making them visible, and for safety you also need to + scp the binaries (such as find) that those + scripts use. The ssh daemon on the + client box may already be compromised. All in all, using + ssh may be necessary when running over + unsecure links, but it's also a lot harder to deal with. + + A good security script will also check for changes to user and + staff members access configuration files: + .rhosts, .shosts, + .ssh/authorized_keys and so forth… + files that might fall outside the purview of the + MD5 check. + + If you have a huge amount of user disk space it may take too + long to run through every file on those partitions. In this case, + setting mount flags to disallow suid binaries and devices on those + partitions is a good idea. The nodev and + nosuid options (see &man.mount.8;) are what you + want to look into. I would scan them anyway at least once a week, + since the object of this layer is to detect a break-in whether or + not the break-in is effective. + + Process accounting (see &man.accton.8;) is a relatively + low-overhead feature of the operating system which I recommend + using as a post-break-in evaluation mechanism. It is especially + useful in tracking down how an intruder has actually broken into + a system, assuming the file is still intact after the break-in + occurs. + + Finally, security scripts should process the log files and the + logs themselves should be generated in as secure a manner as + possible – remote syslog can be very useful. An intruder + tries to cover his tracks, and log files are critical to the + sysadmin trying to track down the time and method of the initial + break-in. One way to keep a permanent record of the log files is + to run the system console to a serial port and collect the + information on a continuing basis through a secure machine + monitoring the consoles. + + + + Paranoia + + A little paranoia never hurts. As a rule, a sysadmin can add + any number of security features as long as they do not effect + convenience, and can add security features that do effect + convenience with some added thought. Even more importantly, a + security administrator should mix it up a bit – if you use + recommendations such as those given by this document verbatim, you + give away your methodologies to the prospective hacker who also + has access to this document. + + + + Denial of Service Attacks + + This section covers Denial of Service attacks. A DOS attack + is typically a packet attack. While there is not much you can do + about modern spoofed packet attacks that saturate your network, + you can generally limit the damage by ensuring that the attacks + cannot take down your servers. + + + + Limiting server forks. + + + + Limiting springboard attacks (ICMP response attacks, ping + broadcast, etc.). + + + + Kernel Route Cache. + + + + A common DOS attack is against a forking server that attempts + to cause the server to eat processes, file descriptors, and memory + until the machine dies. Inetd (see &man.inetd.8;) has several + options to limit this sort of attack. It should be noted that + while it is possible to prevent a machine from going down it is + not generally possible to prevent a service from being disrupted + by the attack. Read the inetd manual page carefully and pay + specific attention to the , , + and options. Note that spoofed-IP attacks + will circumvent the option to inetd, so + typically a combination of options must be used. Some standalone + servers have self-fork-limitation parameters. + + Sendmail has its + option which tends to work + much better than trying to use sendmail's load limiting options + due to the load lag. You should specify a + MaxDaemonChildren parameter when you start + sendmail high enough to handle your + expected load but no so high that the computer cannot handle that + number of sendmails without falling on + its face. It is also prudent to run sendmail in queued mode + () and to run the daemon + (sendmail -bd) separate from the queue-runs + (sendmail -q15m). If you still want realtime + delivery you can run the queue at a much lower interval, such as + , but be sure to specify a reasonable + MaxDaemonChildren option for that sendmail to + prevent cascade failures. + + Syslogd can be attacked directly + and it is strongly recommended that you use the + option whenever possible, and the option + otherwise. + + You should also be fairly careful with connect-back services + such as tcpwrapper's reverse-identd, + which can be attacked directly. You generally do not want to use + the reverse-ident feature of + tcpwrappers for this reason. + + It is a very good idea to protect internal services from + external access by firewalling them off at your border routers. + The idea here is to prevent saturation attacks from outside your + LAN, not so much to protect internal services from network-based + root compromise. Always configure an exclusive firewall, i.e., + “firewall everything except ports A, B, + C, D, and M-Z”. This way you can firewall off all of your + low ports except for certain specific services such as + named (if you are primary for a zone), + ntalkd, + sendmail, and other internet-accessible + services. If you try to configure the firewall the other way + – as an inclusive or permissive firewall, there is a good + chance that you will forget to “close” a couple of + services or that you will add a new internal service and forget + to update the firewall. You can still open up the high-numbered + port range on the firewall to allow permissive-like operation + without compromising your low ports. Also take note that FreeBSD + allows you to control the range of port numbers used for dynamic + binding via the various net.inet.ip.portrange + sysctl's (sysctl -a | fgrep + portrange), which can also ease the complexity of your + firewall's configuration. I usually use a normal first/last range + of 4000 to 5000, and a hiport range of 49152 to 65535, then block + everything under 4000 off in my firewall (except for certain + specific internet-accessible ports, of course). + + Another common DOS attack is called a springboard attack + – to attack a server in a manner that causes the server to + generate responses which then overload the server, the local + network, or some other machine. The most common attack of this + nature is the ICMP ping broadcast attack. + The attacker spoofs ping packets sent to your LAN's broadcast + address with the source IP address set to the actual machine they + wish to attack. If your border routers are not configured to + stomp on ping's to broadcast addresses, your LAN winds up + generating sufficient responses to the spoofed source address to + saturate the victim, especially when the attacker uses the same + trick on several dozen broadcast addresses over several dozen + different networks at once. Broadcast attacks of over a hundred + and twenty megabits have been measured. A second common + springboard attack is against the ICMP error reporting system. + By constructing packets that generate ICMP error responses, an + attacker can saturate a server's incoming network and cause the + server to saturate its outgoing network with ICMP responses. This + type of attack can also crash the server by running it out of + mbuf's, especially if the server cannot drain the ICMP responses + it generates fast enough. The FreeBSD kernel has a new kernel + compile option called ICMP_BANDLIM which limits the effectiveness + of these sorts of attacks. The last major class of springboard + attacks is related to certain internal inetd services such as the + udp echo service. An attacker simply spoofs a UDP packet with the + source address being server A's echo port, and the destination + address being server B's echo port, where server A and B are both + on your LAN. The two servers then bounce this one packet back and + forth between each other. The attacker can overload both servers + and their LANs simply by injecting a few packets in this manner. + Similar problems exist with the internal chargen port. A + competent sysadmin will turn off all of these inetd-internal test + services. + + Spoofed packet attacks may also be used to overload the kernel + route cache. Refer to the net.inet.ip.rtexpire, + rtminexpire, and rtmaxcache + sysctl parameters. A spoofed packet attack + that uses a random source IP will cause the kernel to generate a + temporary cached route in the route table, viewable with + netstat -rna | fgrep W3. These routes + typically timeout in 1600 seconds or so. If the kernel detects + that the cached route table has gotten too big it will dynamically + reduce the rtexpire but will never decrease it to less then + rtminexpire. There are two problems: + + + + The kernel does not react quickly enough when a lightly + loaded server is suddenly attacked. + + + + The rtminexpire is not low enough for + the kernel to survive a sustained attack. + + + + If your servers are connected to the internet via a T3 or + better it may be prudent to manually override both + rtexpire and rtminexpire + via &man.sysctl.8;. Never set either parameter to zero (unless + you want to crash the machine :-). Setting both + parameters to 2 seconds should be sufficient to protect the route + table from attack. + + + + Access Issues with Kerberos and SSH + + There are a few issues with both kerberos and + ssh that need to be addressed if you + intend to use them. Kerberos V is an excellent authentication + protocol but the kerberized telnet and + rlogin suck rocks. There are bugs that + make them unsuitable for dealing with binary streams. Also, by + default kerberos does not encrypt a session unless you use the + option. ssh + encrypts everything by default. + + ssh works quite well in every + respect except that it forwards encryption keys by default. What + this means is that if you have a secure workstation holding keys + that give you access to the rest of the system, and you + ssh to an unsecure machine, your keys + becomes exposed. The actual keys themselves are not exposed, but + ssh installs a forwarding port for the + duration of your login and if a hacker has broken root on the + unsecure machine he can utilize that port to use your keys to gain + access to any other machine that your keys unlock. + + We recommend that you use ssh in + combination with kerberos whenever possible for staff logins. + ssh can be compiled with kerberos + support. This reduces your reliance on potentially exposable + ssh keys while at the same time + protecting passwords via kerberos. ssh + keys should only be used for automated tasks from secure machines + (something that kerberos is unsuited to). We also recommend that + you either turn off key-forwarding in the + ssh configuration, or that you make use + of the from=IP/DOMAIN option that + ssh allows in its + authorized_keys file to make the key only + useable to entities logging in from specific machines. + + DES, MD5, and Crypt + Parts rewritten and updated by &a.unfurl;, 21 March + 2000. + Every user on a UNIX system has a password associated with their account, obviously these passwords need to be known only to the user and the actual operating system. In order to keep these passwords secret, they are encrypted with what is known as a 'one-way hash', that is, they can only be easily encrypted but not decrypted. The only way to get the password is by brute force searching the space of possible passwords. Unfortunately the only secure way to encrypt passwords when UNIX came into being was based on DES, the Data Encryption Standard. This is not such a problem for users that live in the US, but since the source code for DES cannot be exported outside the US, FreeBSD had to find a way to both comply with US law and retain compatibility with all the other UNIX variants that still use DES. The solution was to divide up the encryption libraries so that US users could install the DES libraries and use DES but international users still had an encryption method that could be exported abroad. This is how FreeBSD came to use MD5 as it's default encryption method. Recognizing your crypt mechanism It is pretty easy to identify which encryption method FreeBSD is set up to use. Examining the encrypted passwords in the /etc/master.passwd file is one way. Passwords encrypted with the MD5 hash are longer than those with encrypted with the DES hash and also begin with the characters $1$. DES password strings do not have any particular identifying characteristics, but they are shorter than MD5 passwords, and are coded in a 64-character alphabet which does not include the $ character, so a relatively short string which does not begin with a dollar sign is very likely a DES password. Identifying which library is being used by the programs on your system is easy as well. Any program that uses crypt is linked against libcrypt which for each type of library is a symbolic link to the appropriate implementation. For example, on a system using the DES versions: &prompt.user; ls -l /usr/lib/libcrypt* lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 13 Mar 19 06:56 libcrypt.a -> libdescrypt.a lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 18 Mar 19 06:56 libcrypt.so.2.0 -> libdescrypt.so.2.0 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 15 Mar 19 06:56 libcrypt_p.a -> libdescrypt_p.a On a system using the MD5-based libraries, the same links will be present, but the target will be libscrypt rather than libdescrypt. S/Key S/Key is a one-time password scheme based on a one-way hash function. FreeBSD uses the MD4 hash for compatibility but other systems have used MD5 and DES-MAC. S/Key has been part of the FreeBSD base system since version 1.1.5 and is also used on a growing number of other operating systems. S/Key is a registered trademark of Bell Communications Research, Inc. There are three different sorts of passwords which we will talk about in the discussion below. The first is your usual UNIX-style or Kerberos password; we will call this a “UNIX password”. The second sort is the one-time password which is generated by the S/Key key program and accepted by the keyinit program and the login prompt; we will call this a “one-time password”. The final sort of password is the secret password which you give to the key program (and sometimes the keyinit program) which it uses to generate one-time passwords; we will call it a “secret password” or just unqualified “password”. The secret password does not have anything to do with your UNIX password; they can be the same but this is not reccomended. S/Key secret passwords are not limted to 8 characters like UNIX passwords, they can be as long as you like. Passwords of six or seven word long phrases are fairly common. For the most part, the S/Key system operates completely independently of the UNIX password system. Besides the password, there are two other pieces of data that are important to S/Key. One is what is known as the “seed” or “key” and consists of two letters and five digits. The other is what is called the “iteration count” and is a number between 1 and 100. S/Key creates the one-time password by concatenating the seed and the secret password, then applying the MD4 hash as many times as specified by the iteration count and turning the result into six short English words. These six English words are your one-time password. The login and su programs keep track of the last one-time password used, and the user is authenticated if the hash of the user-provided password is equal to the previous password. Because a one-way hash is used it is impossible to generate future one-time passwords if a sucessfully used password is captured; the interation count is decremented after each sucessfull login to keep the user and the login program in sync. When the iteration count gets down to 1 S/Key must be reinitialized. There are four programs involved in the S/Key system which we will discuss below. The key program accepts an iteration count, a seed, and a secret password, and generates a one-time password. The keyinit program is used to initialized S/Key, and to change passwords, iteration counts, or seeds; it takes either a secret password, or an iteration count, seed, and one-time password. The keyinfo program examines the /etc/skeykeys file and prints out the invoking user's current iteration count and seed. Finally, the login and su programs contain the necessary logic to accept S/Key one-time passwords for authentication. The login program is also capable of disallowing the use of UNIX passwords on connections coming from specified addresses. There are four different sorts of operations we will cover. The first is using the keyinit program over a secure connection to set up S/Key for the first time, or to change your password or seed. The second operation is using the keyinit program over an insecure connection, in conjunction with the key program over a secure connection, to do the same. The third is using the key program to log in over an insecure connection. The fourth is using the key program to generate a number of keys which can be written down or printed out to carry with you when going to some location without secure connections to anywhere. Secure connection initialization To initialize S/Key for the first time, change your password, or change your seed while logged in over a secure connection (e.g., on the console of a machine or via ssh), use the keyinit command without any parameters while logged in as yourself: &prompt.user; keyinit Adding unfurl: Reminder - Only use this method if you are directly connected. If you are using telnet or rlogin exit with no password and use keyinit -s. Enter secret password: Again secret password: ID unfurl s/key is 99 to17757 DEFY CLUB PRO NASH LACE SOFT At the Enter secret password: prompt you should enter a password or phrase. Remember, this is not the password that you will use to login with, this is used to generate your one-time login keys. The “ID” line gives the parameters of your particular S/Key instance; your login name, the iteration count, and seed. When logging in with S/Key, the system will remember these parameters and present them back to you so you do not have to remember them. The last line gives the particular one-time password which corresponds to those parameters and your secret password; if you were to re-login immediately, this one-time password is the one you would use. Insecure connection initialization To initialize S/Key or change your secret password over an insecure connection, you will need to already have a secure connection to some place where you can run the key program; this might be in the form of a desk accessory on a Macintosh, or a shell prompt on a machine you trust. You will also need to make up an iteration count (100 is probably a good value), and you may make up your own seed or use a randomly-generated one. Over on the insecure connection (to the machine you are initializing), use the keyinit -s command: &prompt.user; keyinit -s Updating unfurl: Old key: to17758 Reminder you need the 6 english words from the key command. Enter sequence count from 1 to 9999: 100 Enter new key [default to17759]: s/key 100 to 17759 s/key access password: To accept the default seed (which the keyinit program confusingly calls a key), press return. Then before entering an access password, move over to your secure connection or S/Key desk accessory, and give it the same parameters: &prompt.user; key 100 to17759 Reminder - Do not use this program while logged in via telnet or rlogin. Enter secret password: <secret password> CURE MIKE BANE HIM RACY GORE Now switch back over to the insecure connection, and copy the one-time password generated by key over to the keyinit program: s/key access password:CURE MIKE BANE HIM RACY GORE ID unfurl s/key is 100 to17759 CURE MIKE BANE HIM RACY GORE The rest of the description from the previous section applies here as well. Generating a single one-time password Once you've initialized S/Key, when you login you will be presented with a prompt like this: &prompt.user; telnet example.com Trying 10.0.0.1... Connected to example.com Escape character is '^]'. FreeBSD/i386 (example.com) (ttypa) login: <username> s/key 97 fw13894 Password: As a side note, the S/Key prompt has a useful feature (not shown here): if you press return at the password prompt, the login program will turn echo on, so you can see what you are typing. This can be extremely useful if you are attempting to type in an S/Key by hand, such as from a printout. Also, if this machine were configured to disallow UNIX passwords over a connection from my machine, the prompt would have also included the annotation (s/key required), indicating that only S/Key one-time passwords will be accepted. At this point you need to generate your one-time password to answer this login prompt. This must be done on a trusted system that you can run the key command on. (There are versions of the key program from DOS, Windows and MacOS as well.) The key program needs both the iteration count and the seed as command line options. You can cut-and-paste these right from the login prompt on the machine that you are logging in to. On the trusted system: &prompt.user; key 97 fw13894 Reminder - Do not use this program while logged in via telnet or rlogin. Enter secret password: WELD LIP ACTS ENDS ME HAAG Now that you have your one-time password you can continue logging in: login: <username> s/key 97 fw13894 Password: <return to enable echo> s/key 97 fw13894 Password [echo on]: WELD LIP ACTS ENDS ME HAAG Last login: Tue Mar 21 11:56:41 from 10.0.0.2 ... This is the easiest mechanism if you have a trusted machine. There is a Java S/Key key applet, The Java OTP Calculator, that you can download and run locally on any Java supporting browser. Generating multiple one-time passwords Sometimes you have have to go places where you do not have access to a trusted machine or secure connection. In this case, it is possible to use the key command to generate a number of one-time passwords before hand to be printed out and taken with you. For example: &prompt.user; key -n 5 30 zz99999 Reminder - Do not use this program while logged in via telnet or rlogin. Enter secret password: <secret password> 26: SODA RUDE LEA LIND BUDD SILT 27: JILT SPY DUTY GLOW COWL ROT 28: THEM OW COLA RUNT BONG SCOT 29: COT MASH BARR BRIM NAN FLAG 30: CAN KNEE CAST NAME FOLK BILK The requests five keys in sequence, the specifies what the last iteration number should be. Note that these are printed out in reverse order of eventual use. If you are really paranoid, you might want to write the results down by hand; otherwise you can cut-and-paste into lpr. Note that each line shows both the iteration count and the one-time password; you may still find it handy to scratch off passwords as you use them. Restricting use of UNIX passwords Restrictions can be placed on the use of UNIX passwords based on the host name, user name, terminal port, or IP address of a login session. These restrictions can be found in the configuration file /etc/skey.access. The &man.skey.access.5; manual page has more info on the complete format of the file and also details some security cautions to be aware of before depending on this file for security. If there is no /etc/skey.access file (this is the FreeBSD default), then all users will be allowed to use UNIX passwords. If the file exists, however, then all users will be required to use S/Key unless explicitly permitted to do otherwise by configuration statements in the skey.access file. In all cases, UNIX passwords are permitted on the console. Here is a sample configuration file which illustrates the three most common sorts of configuration statements: permit internet 192.168.0.0 255.255.0.0 permit user fnord permit port ttyd0 The first line (permit internet) allows users whose IP source address (which is vulnerable to spoofing) matches the specified value and mask, to use UNIX passwords. This should not be considered a security mechanism, but rather, a means to remind authorized users that they are using an insecure network and need to use S/Key for authentication. The second line (permit user) allows the specified username, in this case fnord, to use UNIX passwords at any time. Generally speaking, this should only be used for people who are either unable to use the key program, like those with dumb terminals, or those who are uneducable. The third line (permit port) allows all users logging in on the specified terminal line to use UNIX passwords; this would be used for dial-ups. Kerberos Contributed by &a.markm; (based on contribution by &a.md;). Kerberos is a network add-on system/protocol that allows users to authenticate themselves through the services of a secure server. Services such as remote login, remote copy, secure inter-system file copying and other high-risk tasks are made considerably safer and more controllable. The following instructions can be used as a guide on how to set up Kerberos as distributed for FreeBSD. However, you should refer to the relevant manual pages for a complete description. In FreeBSD, the Kerberos is not that from the original 4.4BSD-Lite, distribution, but eBones, which had been previously ported to FreeBSD 1.1.5.1, and was sourced from outside the USA/Canada, and is thus available to system owners outside those countries. For those needing to get a legal foreign distribution of this software, please do not get it from a USA or Canada site. You will get that site in big trouble! A legal copy of this is available from ftp.internat.FreeBSD.org, which is in South Africa and an official FreeBSD mirror site. Creating the initial database This is done on the Kerberos server only. First make sure that you do not have any old Kerberos databases around. You should change to the directory /etc/kerberosIV and check that only the following files are present: &prompt.root; cd /etc/kerberosIV &prompt.root; ls README krb.conf krb.realms If any additional files (such as principal.* or master_key) exist, then use the kdb_destroy command to destroy the old Kerberos database, of if Kerberos is not running, simply delete the extra files. You should now edit the krb.conf and krb.realms files to define your Kerberos realm. In this case the realm will be GRONDAR.ZA and the server is grunt.grondar.za. We edit or create the krb.conf file: &prompt.root; cat krb.conf GRONDAR.ZA GRONDAR.ZA grunt.grondar.za admin server CS.BERKELEY.EDU okeeffe.berkeley.edu ATHENA.MIT.EDU kerberos.mit.edu ATHENA.MIT.EDU kerberos-1.mit.edu ATHENA.MIT.EDU kerberos-2.mit.edu ATHENA.MIT.EDU kerberos-3.mit.edu LCS.MIT.EDU kerberos.lcs.mit.edu TELECOM.MIT.EDU bitsy.mit.edu ARC.NASA.GOV trident.arc.nasa.gov In this case, the other realms do not need to be there. They are here as an example of how a machine may be made aware of multiple realms. You may wish to not include them for simplicity. The first line names the realm in which this system works. The other lines contain realm/host entries. The first item on a line is a realm, and the second is a host in that realm that is acting as a “key distribution centre”. The words admin server following a hosts name means that host also provides an administrative database server. For further explanation of these terms, please consult the Kerberos man pages. Now we have to add grunt.grondar.za to the GRONDAR.ZA realm and also add an entry to put all hosts in the .grondar.za domain in the GRONDAR.ZA realm. The krb.realms file would be updated as follows: &prompt.root; cat krb.realms grunt.grondar.za GRONDAR.ZA .grondar.za GRONDAR.ZA .berkeley.edu CS.BERKELEY.EDU .MIT.EDU ATHENA.MIT.EDU .mit.edu ATHENA.MIT.EDU Again, the other realms do not need to be there. They are here as an example of how a machine may be made aware of multiple realms. You may wish to remove them to simplify things. The first line puts the specific system into the named realm. The rest of the lines show how to default systems of a particular subdomain to a named realm. Now we are ready to create the database. This only needs to run on the Kerberos server (or Key Distribution Centre). Issue the kdb_init command to do this: &prompt.root; kdb_init Realm name [default ATHENA.MIT.EDU ]: GRONDAR.ZA You will be prompted for the database Master Password. It is important that you NOT FORGET this password. Enter Kerberos master key: Now we have to save the key so that servers on the local machine can pick it up. Use the kstash command to do this. &prompt.root; kstash Enter Kerberos master key: Current Kerberos master key version is 1. Master key entered. BEWARE! This saves the encrypted master password in /etc/kerberosIV/master_key. Making it all run Two principals need to be added to the database for each system that will be secured with Kerberos. Their names are kpasswd and rcmd These two principals are made for each system, with the instance being the name of the individual system. These daemons, kpasswd and rcmd allow other systems to change Kerberos passwords and run commands like rcp, rlogin and rsh. Now let's add these entries: &prompt.root; kdb_edit Opening database... Enter Kerberos master key: Current Kerberos master key version is 1. Master key entered. BEWARE! Previous or default values are in [brackets] , enter return to leave the same, or new value. Principal name: passwd Instance: grunt <Not found>, Create [y] ? y Principal: passwd, Instance: grunt, kdc_key_ver: 1 New Password: <---- enter RANDOM here Verifying password New Password: <---- enter RANDOM here Random password [y] ? y Principal's new key version = 1 Expiration date (enter yyyy-mm-dd) [ 2000-01-01 ] ? Max ticket lifetime (*5 minutes) [ 255 ] ? Attributes [ 0 ] ? Edit O.K. Principal name: rcmd Instance: grunt <Not found>, Create [y] ? Principal: rcmd, Instance: grunt, kdc_key_ver: 1 New Password: <---- enter RANDOM here Verifying password New Password: <---- enter RANDOM here Random password [y] ? Principal's new key version = 1 Expiration date (enter yyyy-mm-dd) [ 2000-01-01 ] ? Max ticket lifetime (*5 minutes) [ 255 ] ? Attributes [ 0 ] ? Edit O.K. Principal name: <---- null entry here will cause an exit Creating the server file We now have to extract all the instances which define the services on each machine. For this we use the ext_srvtab command. This will create a file which must be copied or moved by secure means to each Kerberos client's /etc/kerberosIV directory. This file must be present on each server and client, and is crucial to the operation of Kerberos. &prompt.root; ext_srvtab grunt Enter Kerberos master key: Current Kerberos master key version is 1. Master key entered. BEWARE! Generating 'grunt-new-srvtab'.... Now, this command only generates a temporary file which must be renamed to srvtab so that all the server can pick it up. Use the mv command to move it into place on the original system: &prompt.root; mv grunt-new-srvtab srvtab If the file is for a client system, and the network is not deemed safe, then copy the client-new-srvtab to removable media and transport it by secure physical means. Be sure to rename it to srvtab in the client's /etc/kerberosIV directory, and make sure it is mode 600: &prompt.root; mv grumble-new-srvtab srvtab &prompt.root; chmod 600 srvtab Populating the database We now have to add some user entries into the database. First let's create an entry for the user jane. Use the kdb_edit command to do this: &prompt.root; kdb_edit Opening database... Enter Kerberos master key: Current Kerberos master key version is 1. Master key entered. BEWARE! Previous or default values are in [brackets] , enter return to leave the same, or new value. Principal name: jane Instance: <Not found>, Create [y] ? y Principal: jane, Instance: , kdc_key_ver: 1 New Password: <---- enter a secure password here Verifying password New Password: <---- re-enter the password here Principal's new key version = 1 Expiration date (enter yyyy-mm-dd) [ 2000-01-01 ] ? Max ticket lifetime (*5 minutes) [ 255 ] ? Attributes [ 0 ] ? Edit O.K. Principal name: <---- null entry here will cause an exit Testing it all out First we have to start the Kerberos daemons. NOTE that if you have correctly edited your /etc/rc.conf then this will happen automatically when you reboot. This is only necessary on the Kerberos server. Kerberos clients will automagically get what they need from the /etc/kerberosIV directory. &prompt.root; kerberos & Kerberos server starting Sleep forever on error Log file is /var/log/kerberos.log Current Kerberos master key version is 1. Master key entered. BEWARE! Current Kerberos master key version is 1 Local realm: GRONDAR.ZA &prompt.root; kadmind -n & KADM Server KADM0.0A initializing Please do not use 'kill -9' to kill this job, use a regular kill instead Current Kerberos master key version is 1. Master key entered. BEWARE! Now we can try using the kinit command to get a ticket for the id jane that we created above: &prompt.user; kinit jane MIT Project Athena (grunt.grondar.za) Kerberos Initialization for "jane" Password: Try listing the tokens using klist to see if we really have them: &prompt.user; klist Ticket file: /tmp/tkt245 Principal: jane@GRONDAR.ZA Issued Expires Principal Apr 30 11:23:22 Apr 30 19:23:22 krbtgt.GRONDAR.ZA@GRONDAR.ZA Now try changing the password using passwd to check if the kpasswd daemon can get authorization to the Kerberos database: &prompt.user; passwd realm GRONDAR.ZA Old password for jane: New Password for jane: Verifying password New Password for jane: Password changed. Adding <command>su</command> privileges Kerberos allows us to give each user who needs root privileges their own separate supassword. We could now add an id which is authorized to su to root. This is controlled by having an instance of root associated with a principal. Using kdb_edit we can create the entry jane.root in the Kerberos database: &prompt.root; kdb_edit Opening database... Enter Kerberos master key: Current Kerberos master key version is 1. Master key entered. BEWARE! Previous or default values are in [brackets] , enter return to leave the same, or new value. Principal name: jane Instance: root <Not found>, Create [y] ? y Principal: jane, Instance: root, kdc_key_ver: 1 New Password: <---- enter a SECURE password here Verifying password New Password: <---- re-enter the password here Principal's new key version = 1 Expiration date (enter yyyy-mm-dd) [ 2000-01-01 ] ? Max ticket lifetime (*5 minutes) [ 255 ] ? 12 <--- Keep this short! Attributes [ 0 ] ? Edit O.K. Principal name: <---- null entry here will cause an exit Now try getting tokens for it to make sure it works: &prompt.root; kinit jane.root MIT Project Athena (grunt.grondar.za) Kerberos Initialization for "jane.root" Password: Now we need to add the user to root's .klogin file: &prompt.root; cat /root/.klogin jane.root@GRONDAR.ZA Now try doing the su: &prompt.user; su Password: and take a look at what tokens we have: &prompt.root; klist Ticket file: /tmp/tkt_root_245 Principal: jane.root@GRONDAR.ZA Issued Expires Principal May 2 20:43:12 May 3 04:43:12 krbtgt.GRONDAR.ZA@GRONDAR.ZA Using other commands In an earlier example, we created a principal called jane with an instance root. This was based on a user with the same name as the principal, and this is a Kerberos default; that a <principal>.<instance> of the form <username>.root will allow that <username> to su to root if the necessary entries are in the .klogin file in root's home directory: &prompt.root; cat /root/.klogin jane.root@GRONDAR.ZA Likewise, if a user has in their own home directory lines of the form: &prompt.user; cat ~/.klogin jane@GRONDAR.ZA jack@GRONDAR.ZA This allows anyone in the GRONDAR.ZA realm who has authenticated themselves to jane or jack (via kinit, see above) access to rlogin to jane's account or files on this system (grunt) via rlogin, rsh or rcp. For example, Jane now logs into another system, using Kerberos: &prompt.user; kinit MIT Project Athena (grunt.grondar.za) Password: %prompt.user; rlogin grunt Last login: Mon May 1 21:14:47 from grumble Copyright (c) 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD BUILT-19950429 (GR386) #0: Sat Apr 29 17:50:09 SAT 1995 Or Jack logs into Jane's account on the same machine (Jane having set up the .klogin file as above, and the person in charge of Kerberos having set up principal jack with a null instance: &prompt.user; kinit &prompt.user; rlogin grunt -l jane MIT Project Athena (grunt.grondar.za) Password: Last login: Mon May 1 21:16:55 from grumble Copyright (c) 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD BUILT-19950429 (GR386) #0: Sat Apr 29 17:50:09 SAT 1995 Firewalls Contributed by &a.gpalmer; and &a.alex;. Firewalls are an area of increasing interest for people who are connected to the Internet, and are even finding applications on private networks to provide enhanced security. This section will hopefully explain what firewalls are, how to use them, and how to use the facilities provided in the FreeBSD kernel to implement them. People often think that having a firewall between your internal network and the “Big Bad Internet” will solve all your security problems. It may help, but a poorly setup firewall system is more of a security risk than not having one at all. A firewall can add another layer of security to your systems, but it cannot stop a really determined cracker from penetrating your internal network. If you let internal security lapse because you believe your firewall to be impenetrable, you have just made the crackers job that much easier. What is a firewall? There are currently two distinct types of firewalls in common use on the Internet today. The first type is more properly called a packet filtering router, where the kernel on a multi-homed machine chooses whether to forward or block packets based on a set of rules. The second type, known as a proxy server, relies on daemons to provide authentication and to forward packets, possibly on a multi-homed machine which has kernel packet forwarding disabled. Sometimes sites combine the two types of firewalls, so that only a certain machine (known as a bastion host) is allowed to send packets through a packet filtering router onto an internal network. Proxy services are run on the bastion host, which are generally more secure than normal authentication mechanisms. FreeBSD comes with a kernel packet filter (known as IPFW), which is what the rest of this section will concentrate on. Proxy servers can be built on FreeBSD from third party software, but there is such a variety of proxy servers available that it would be impossible to cover them in this document. Packet filtering routers A router is a machine which forwards packets between two or more networks. A packet filtering router has an extra piece of code in its kernel which compares each packet to a list of rules before deciding if it should be forwarded or not. Most modern IP routing software has packet filtering code within it that defaults to forwarding all packets. To enable the filters, you need to define a set of rules for the filtering code so it can decide if the packet should be allowed to pass or not. To decide whether a packet should be passed on, the code looks through its set of rules for a rule which matches the contents of this packets headers. Once a match is found, the rule action is obeyed. The rule action could be to drop the packet, to forward the packet, or even to send an ICMP message back to the originator. Only the first match counts, as the rules are searched in order. Hence, the list of rules can be referred to as a “rule chain”. The packet matching criteria varies depending on the software used, but typically you can specify rules which depend on the source IP address of the packet, the destination IP address, the source port number, the destination port number (for protocols which support ports), or even the packet type (UDP, TCP, ICMP, etc). Proxy servers Proxy servers are machines which have had the normal system daemons (telnetd, ftpd, etc) replaced with special servers. These servers are called proxy servers as they normally only allow onward connections to be made. This enables you to run (for example) a proxy telnet server on your firewall host, and people can telnet in to your firewall from the outside, go through some authentication mechanism, and then gain access to the internal network (alternatively, proxy servers can be used for signals coming from the internal network and heading out). Proxy servers are normally more secure than normal servers, and often have a wider variety of authentication mechanisms available, including “one-shot” password systems so that even if someone manages to discover what password you used, they will not be able to use it to gain access to your systems as the password instantly expires. As they do not actually give users access to the host machine, it becomes a lot more difficult for someone to install backdoors around your security system. Proxy servers often have ways of restricting access further, so that only certain hosts can gain access to the servers, and often they can be set up so that you can limit which users can talk to which destination machine. Again, what facilities are available depends largely on what proxy software you choose. What does IPFW allow me to do? IPFW, the software supplied with FreeBSD, is a packet filtering and accounting system which resides in the kernel, and has a user-land control utility, &man.ipfw.8;. Together, they allow you to define and query the rules currently used by the kernel in its routing decisions. There are two related parts to IPFW. The firewall section allows you to perform packet filtering. There is also an IP accounting section which allows you to track usage of your router, based on similar rules to the firewall section. This allows you to see (for example) how much traffic your router is getting from a certain machine, or how much WWW (World Wide Web) traffic it is forwarding. As a result of the way that IPFW is designed, you can use IPFW on non-router machines to perform packet filtering on incoming and outgoing connections. This is a special case of the more general use of IPFW, and the same commands and techniques should be used in this situation. Enabling IPFW on FreeBSD As the main part of the IPFW system lives in the kernel, you will need to add one or more options to your kernel configuration file, depending on what facilities you want, and recompile your kernel. See reconfiguring the kernel for more details on how to recompile your kernel. There are currently three kernel configuration options relevant to IPFW: options IPFIREWALL Compiles into the kernel the code for packet filtering. options IPFIREWALL_VERBOSE Enables code to allow logging of packets through &man.syslogd.8;. Without this option, even if you specify that packets should be logged in the filter rules, nothing will happen. options IPFIREWALL_VERBOSE_LIMIT=10 Limits the number of packets logged through &man.syslogd.8; on a per entry basis. You may wish to use this option in hostile environments in which you want to log firewall activity, but do not want to be open to a denial of service attack via syslog flooding. When a chain entry reaches the packet limit specified, logging is turned off for that particular entry. To resume logging, you will need to reset the associated counter using the &man.ipfw.8; utility: &prompt.root; ipfw zero 4500 Where 4500 is the chain entry you wish to continue logging. Previous versions of FreeBSD contained an IPFIREWALL_ACCT option. This is now obsolete as the firewall code automatically includes accounting facilities. Configuring IPFW The configuration of the IPFW software is done through the &man.ipfw.8; utility. The syntax for this command looks quite complicated, but it is relatively simple once you understand its structure. There are currently four different command categories used by the utility: addition/deletion, listing, flushing, and clearing. Addition/deletion is used to build the rules that control how packets are accepted, rejected, and logged. Listing is used to examine the contents of your rule set (otherwise known as the chain) and packet counters (accounting). Flushing is used to remove all entries from the chain. Clearing is used to zero out one or more accounting entries. Altering the IPFW rules The syntax for this form of the command is: ipfw -N command index action log protocol addresses options There is one valid flag when using this form of the command: -N Resolve addresses and service names in output. The command given can be shortened to the shortest unique form. The valid commands are: add Add an entry to the firewall/accounting rule list delete Delete an entry from the firewall/accounting rule list Previous versions of IPFW used separate firewall and accounting entries. The present version provides packet accounting with each firewall entry. If an index value is supplied, it used to place the entry at a specific point in the chain. Otherwise, the entry is placed at the end of the chain at an index 100 greater than the last chain entry (this does not include the default policy, rule 65535, deny). The log option causes matching rules to be output to the system console if the kernel was compiled with IPFIREWALL_VERBOSE. Valid actions are: reject Drop the packet, and send an ICMP host or port unreachable (as appropriate) packet to the source. allow Pass the packet on as normal. (aliases: pass and accept) deny Drop the packet. The source is not notified via an ICMP message (thus it appears that the packet never arrived at the destination). count Update packet counters but do not allow/deny the packet based on this rule. The search continues with the next chain entry. Each action will be recognized by the shortest unambiguous prefix. The protocols which can be specified are: all Matches any IP packet icmp Matches ICMP packets tcp Matches TCP packets udp Matches UDP packets The address specification is: from address/maskport to address/maskport via interface You can only specify port in conjunction with protocols which support ports (UDP and TCP). The is optional and may specify the IP address or domain name of a local IP interface, or an interface name (e.g. ed0) to match only packets coming through this interface. Interface unit numbers can be specified with an optional wildcard. For example, ppp* would match all kernel PPP interfaces. The syntax used to specify an address/mask is: address or address/mask-bits or address:mask-pattern A valid hostname may be specified in place of the IP address. is a decimal number representing how many bits in the address mask should be set. e.g. specifying 192.216.222.1/24 will create a mask which will allow any address in a class C subnet (in this case, 192.216.222) to be matched. is an IP address which will be logically AND'ed with the address given. The keyword any may be used to specify “any IP address”. The port numbers to be blocked are specified as: port,port,port… to specify either a single port or a list of ports, or port-port to specify a range of ports. You may also combine a single range with a list, but the range must always be specified first. The options available are: frag Matches if the packet is not the first fragment of the datagram. in Matches if the packet is on the way in. out Matches if the packet is on the way out. ipoptions spec Matches if the IP header contains the comma separated list of options specified in spec. The supported list of IP options are: ssrr (strict source route), lsrr (loose source route), rr (record packet route), and ts (timestamp). The absence of a particular option may be denoted with a leading !. established Matches if the packet is part of an already established TCP connection (i.e. it has the RST or ACK bits set). You can optimize the performance of the firewall by placing established rules early in the chain. setup Matches if the packet is an attempt to establish a TCP connection (the SYN bit set is set but the ACK bit is not). tcpflags flags Matches if the TCP header contains the comma separated list of flags. The supported flags are fin, syn, rst, psh, ack, and urg. The absence of a particular flag may be indicated by a leading !. icmptypes types Matches if the ICMP type is present in the list types. The list may be specified as any combination of ranges and/or individual types separated by commas. Commonly used ICMP types are: 0 echo reply (ping reply), 3 destination unreachable, 5 redirect, 8 echo request (ping request), and 11 time exceeded (used to indicate TTL expiration as with &man.traceroute.8;). Listing the IPFW rules The syntax for this form of the command is: ipfw -a -t -N l There are three valid flags when using this form of the command: -a While listing, show counter values. This option is the only way to see accounting counters. -t Display the last match times for each chain entry. The time listing is incompatible with the input syntax used by the &man.ipfw.8; utility. -N Attempt to resolve given addresses and service names. Flushing the IPFW rules The syntax for flushing the chain is: ipfw flush This causes all entries in the firewall chain to be removed except the fixed default policy enforced by the kernel (index 65535). Use caution when flushing rules, the default deny policy will leave your system cut off from the network until allow entries are added to the chain. Clearing the IPFW packet counters The syntax for clearing one or more packet counters is: ipfw zero index When used without an index argument, all packet counters are cleared. If an index is supplied, the clearing operation only affects a specific chain entry. Example commands for ipfw This command will deny all packets from the host evil.crackers.org to the telnet port of the host nice.people.org by being forwarded by the router: &prompt.root ipfw add deny tcp from evil.crackers.org to nice.people.org 23 The next example denies and logs any TCP traffic from the entire crackers.org network (a class C) to the nice.people.org machine (any port). &prompt.root; ipfw add deny log tcp from evil.crackers.org/24 to nice.people.org If you do not want people sending X sessions to your internal network (a subnet of a class C), the following command will do the necessary filtering: &prompt.root; ipfw add deny tcp from any to my.org/28 6000 setup To see the accounting records: &prompt.root; ipfw -a list or in the short form &prompt.root; ipfw -a l You can also see the last time a chain entry was matched with: &prompt.root; ipfw -at l Building a packet filtering firewall The following suggestions are just that: suggestions. The requirements of each firewall are different and I cannot tell you how to build a firewall to meet your particular requirements. When initially setting up your firewall, unless you have a test bench setup where you can configure your firewall host in a controlled environment, I strongly recommend you use the logging version of the commands and enable logging in the kernel. This will allow you to quickly identify problem areas and cure them without too much disruption. Even after the initial setup phase is complete, I recommend using the logging for of `deny' as it allows tracing of possible attacks and also modification of the firewall rules if your requirements alter. If you use the logging versions of the accept command, it can generate large amounts of log data as one log line will be generated for every packet that passes through the firewall, so large ftp/http transfers, etc, will really slow the system down. It also increases the latencies on those packets as it requires more work to be done by the kernel before the packet can be passed on. syslogd with also start using up a lot more processor time as it logs all the extra data to disk, and it could quite easily fill the partition /var/log is located on. You should enable your firewall from /etc/rc.conf.local or /etc/rc.conf. The associated manpage explains which knobs to fiddle and lists some preset firewall configurations. If you do not use a preset configuration, ipfw list will output the current ruleset into a file that you can pass to rc.conf. If you do not use /etc/rc.conf.local or /etc/rc.conf to enable your firewall, it is important to make sure your firewall is enabled before any IP interfaces are configured. The next problem is what your firewall should actually do! This is largely dependent on what access to your network you want to allow from the outside, and how much access to the outside world you want to allow from the inside. Some general rules are: Block all incoming access to ports below 1024 for TCP. This is where most of the security sensitive services are, like finger, SMTP (mail) and telnet. Block all incoming UDP traffic. There are very few useful services that travel over UDP, and what useful traffic there is is normally a security threat (e.g. Suns RPC and NFS protocols). This has its disadvantages also, since UDP is a connectionless protocol, denying incoming UDP traffic also blocks the replies to outgoing UDP traffic. This can cause a problem for people (on the inside) using external archie (prospero) servers. If you want to allow access to archie, you'll have to allow packets coming from ports 191 and 1525 to any internal UDP port through the firewall. ntp is another service you may consider allowing through, which comes from port 123. Block traffic to port 6000 from the outside. Port 6000 is the port used for access to X11 servers, and can be a security threat (especially if people are in the habit of doing xhost + on their workstations). X11 can actually use a range of ports starting at 6000, the upper limit being how many X displays you can run on the machine. The upper limit as defined by RFC 1700 (Assigned Numbers) is 6063. Check what ports any internal servers use (e.g. SQL servers, etc). It is probably a good idea to block those as well, as they normally fall outside the 1-1024 range specified above. Another checklist for firewall configuration is available from CERT at ftp://ftp.cert.org/pub/tech_tips/packet_filtering As I said above, these are only guidelines. You will have to decide what filter rules you want to use on your firewall yourself. I cannot accept ANY responsibility if someone breaks into your network, even if you follow the advice given above. OpenSSL As of FreeBSD 4.0, the OpenSSL toolkit is a part of the base system. OpenSSL provides a general-purpose cryptography library, as well as the Secure Sockets Layer v2/v3 (SSLv2/SSLv3) and Transport Layer Security v1 (TLSv1) network security protocols. However, some of the algorithms (specifically, RSA and IDEA) included in OpenSSL are protected by patents in the USA and elsewhere, and are not available for unrestricted use (in particular, IDEA is not available at all in FreeBSD's version of OpenSSL). As a result, FreeBSD has available two different versions of the OpenSSL RSA libraries depending on geographical location (USA/non-USA). Source Code Installations OpenSSL is part of the src-crypto and src-securecvsup collections. See the Obtaining FreeBSD section for more information about obtaining and updating FreeBSD source code. International (Non-USA) Users People who are located outside the USA, and who obtain their crypto sources from internat.FreeBSD.org (the International Crypto Repository) or an international mirror site, will build a version of OpenSSL which includes the “native” OpenSSL implementation of RSA, but does not include IDEA, because the latter is restricted in certain locations elsewhere in the world. In the future a more flexible geographical identification system may allow building of IDEA in countries for which it is not restricted. Please be aware of any local restrictions on the import, use and redistribution of cryptography which may exist in your country. USA Users As noted above, RSA is patented in the USA, with terms preventing general use without an appropriate license. Therefore the standard OpenSSL RSA code may not be used in the USA, and has been removed from the version of OpenSSL carried on USA mirror sites. The RSA patent is due to expire on September 20, 2000, at which time it is intended to add the “full” RSA code back to the USA version of OpenSSL. However (and fortunately), the RSA patent holder (RSA Security, has provided a “RSA reference implementation” toolkit (RSAREF) which is available for certain classes of use, including non-commercial use (see the RSAREF license for their definition of non-commercial). If you meet the conditions of the RSAREF license and wish to use it in conjunction with OpenSSL to provide RSA support, you can install the rsaref port, which is located in /usr/ports/security/rsaref, or the rsaref-2.0 package. The OpenSSL library will then automatically detect and use the RSAREF libraries. Please obtain legal advice if you are unsure of your compliance with the license terms. The RSAREF implementation is inferior to the “native&rdquo OpenSSL implementation (it is much slower, and cannot be used with keys larger than 1024 bits). If you are not located in the USA then you are doing yourself a disadvantage by using RSAREF. Users who have purchased an appropriate RSA source code license from RSA Security may use the International version of OpenSSL described above to obtain native RSA support. IDEA code is also removed from the USA version of OpenSSL for patent reasons. Binary Installations If your FreeBSD installation was a binary installation (e.g., installed from the Walnut Creek CDROM, or from a snapshot downloaded from ftp.FreeBSD.org) and you selected to install the crypto collection, then the sysinstall utility will automatically select the correct version to install during the installation process. If the international version was selected but could not be installed during sysinstall (e.g. you have not configured network access, and the version must be downloaded from a FTP site) then you can add the international RSA library after installation as a package. The librsaintl package contains the RSA code for International (non-USA) users. This is not legal for use in the USA, but international users should use this version because the RSA implementation is faster and more flexible. It is available from ftp.internat.FreeBSD.org and does not require RSAREF. IPsec Contributed by &a.shin;, 5 March 2000. IPsec mechanism provides secure communication either for IP layer and socket layer communication. This section should explain how to use them. About IPsec implementation, please refer section 23.5.4. The current IPsec implementation supports both transport mode and tunnel mode. However, tunnel mode comes with some restrictions. http://www.kame.net/newsletter/ has more comprehensive examples. Transport mode example with IPv4 Let's setup security association to deploy a secure channel between HOST A (10.2.3.4) and HOST B (10.6.7.8). Here we show a little complicated example. From HOST A to HOST B, only old AH is used. From HOST B to HOST A, new AH and new ESP are combined. Now we should choose algorithm to be used corresponding to "AH"/"new AH"/"ESP"/"new ESP". Please refer to the &man.setkey.8; man page to know algorithm names. Our choice is MD5 for AH, new-HMAC-SHA1 for new AH, and new-DES-expIV with 8 byte IV for new ESP. Key length highly depends on each algorithm. For example, key length must be equal to 16 bytes for MD5, 20 for new-HMAC-SHA1, and 8 for new-DES-expIV. Now we choose "MYSECRETMYSECRET", "KAMEKAMEKAMEKAMEKAME", "PASSWORD", respectively. OK, let's assign SPI (Security Parameter Index) for each protocol. Please note that we need 3 SPIs for this secure channel since three security headers are produced (one for from HOST A to HOST B, two for from HOST B to HOST A). Please also note that SPI MUST be greater than or equal to 256. We choose, 1000, 2000, and 3000, respectively. (1) HOST A ------> HOST B (1)PROTO=AH ALG=MD5(RFC1826) KEY=MYSECRETMYSECRET SPI=1000 (2.1) HOST A <------ HOST B <------ (2.2) (2.1) PROTO=AH ALG=new-HMAC-SHA1(new AH) KEY=KAMEKAMEKAMEKAMEKAME SPI=2000 (2.2) PROTO=ESP ALG=new-DES-expIV(new ESP) IV length = 8 KEY=PASSWORD SPI=3000 Now, let's setup security association. Execute &man.setkey.8; on both HOST A and B: &prompt.root; setkey -c add 10.2.3.4 10.6.7.8 ah-old 1000 -m transport -A keyed-md5 "MYSECRETMYSECRET" ; add 10.6.7.8 10.2.3.4 ah 2000 -m transport -A hmac-sha1 "KAMEKAMEKAMEKAMEKAME" ; add 10.6.7.8 10.2.3.4 esp 3000 -m transport -E des-cbc "PASSWORD" ; ^D Actually, IPsec communication doesn't process until security policy entries will be defined. In this case, you must setup each host. At A: &prompt.root; setkey -c spdadd 10.2.3.4 10.6.7.8 any -P out ipsec ah/transport/10.2.3.4-10.6.7.8/require ; ^D At B: &prompt.root; setkey -c spdadd 10.6.7.8 10.2.3.4 any -P out ipsec esp/transport/10.6.7.8-10.2.3.4/require ; spdadd 10.6.7.8 10.2.3.4 any -P out ipsec ah/transport/10.6.7.8-10.2.3.4/require ; ^D HOST A --------------------------------------> HOST E 10.2.3.4 10.6.7.8 | | ========== old AH keyed-md5 ==========> <========= new AH hmac-sha1 =========== <========= new ESP des-cbc ============ Transport mode example with IPv6 Another example using IPv6. ESP transport mode is recommended for TCP port number 110 between Host-A and Host-B. ============ ESP ============ | | Host-A Host-B fec0::10 -------------------- fec0::11 Encryption algorithm is blowfish-cbc whose key is "kamekame", and authentication algorithm is hmac-sha1 whose key is "this is the test key". Configuration at Host-A: &prompt.root; setkey -c <<EOF spdadd fec0::10[any] fec0::11[110] tcp -P out ipsec esp/transport/fec0::10-fec0::11/use ; spdadd fec0::11[110] fec0::10[any] tcp -P in ipsec esp/transport/fec0::11-fec0::10/use ; add fec0::10 fec0::11 esp 0x10001 -m transport -E blowfish-cbc "kamekame" -A hmac-sha1 "this is the test key" ; add fec0::11 fec0::10 esp 0x10002 -m transport -E blowfish-cbc "kamekame" -A hmac-sha1 "this is the test key" ; EOF and at Host-B: &prompt.root; setkey -c <<EOF spdadd fec0::11[110] fec0::10[any] tcp -P out ipsec esp/transport/fec0::11-fec0::10/use ; spdadd fec0::10[any] fec0::11[110] tcp -P in ipsec esp/transport/fec0::10-fec0::11/use ; add fec0::10 fec0::11 esp 0x10001 -m transport -E blowfish-cbc "kamekame" -A hmac-sha1 "this is the test key" ; add fec0::11 fec0::10 esp 0x10002 -m transport -E blowfish-cbc "kamekame" -A hmac-sha1 "this is the test key" ; EOF Note the direction of SP. Tunnel mode example with IPv4 Tunnel mode between two security gateways Security protocol is old AH tunnel mode, i.e. specified by RFC1826, with keyed-md5 whose key is "this is the test" as authentication algorithm. ======= AH ======= | | Network-A Gateway-A Gateway-B Network-B 10.0.1.0/24 ---- 172.16.0.1 ----- 172.16.0.2 ---- 10.0.2.0/24 Configuration at Gateway-A: &prompt.root; setkey -c <<EOF spdadd 10.0.1.0/24 10.0.2.0/24 any -P out ipsec ah/tunnel/172.16.0.1-172.16.0.2/require ; spdadd 10.0.2.0/24 10.0.1.0/24 any -P in ipsec ah/tunnel/172.16.0.2-172.16.0.1/require ; add 172.16.0.1 172.16.0.2 ah-old 0x10003 -m any -A keyed-md5 "this is the test" ; add 172.16.0.2 172.16.0.1 ah-old 0x10004 -m any -A keyed-md5 "this is the test" ; EOF If port number field is omitted such above then "[any]" is employed. `-m' specifies the mode of SA to be used. "-m any" means wild-card of mode of security protocol. You can use this SA for both tunnel and transport mode. and at Gateway-B: &prompt.root; setkey -c <<EOF spdadd 10.0.2.0/24 10.0.1.0/24 any -P out ipsec ah/tunnel/172.16.0.2-172.16.0.1/require ; spdadd 10.0.1.0/24 10.0.2.0/24 any -P in ipsec ah/tunnel/172.16.0.1-172.16.0.2/require ; add 172.16.0.1 172.16.0.2 ah-old 0x10003 -m any -A keyed-md5 "this is the test" ; add 172.16.0.2 172.16.0.1 ah-old 0x10004 -m any -A keyed-md5 "this is the test" ; EOF Making SA bundle between two security gateways AH transport mode and ESP tunnel mode is required between Gateway-A and Gateway-B. In this case, ESP tunnel mode is applied first, and AH transport mode is next. ========== AH ========= | ======= ESP ===== | | | | | Network-A Gateway-A Gateway-B Network-B fec0:0:0:1::/64 --- fec0:0:0:1::1 ---- fec0:0:0:2::1 --- fec0:0:0:2::/64 Tunnel mode example with IPv6 Encryption algorithm is 3des-cbc, and authentication algorithm for ESP is hmac-sha1. Authentication algorithm for AH is hmac-md5. Configuration at Gateway-A: &prompt.root; setkey -c <<EOF spdadd fec0:0:0:1::/64 fec0:0:0:2::/64 any -P out ipsec esp/tunnel/fec0:0:0:1::1-fec0:0:0:2::1/require ah/transport/fec0:0:0:1::1-fec0:0:0:2::1/require ; spdadd fec0:0:0:2::/64 fec0:0:0:1::/64 any -P in ipsec esp/tunnel/fec0:0:0:2::1-fec0:0:0:1::1/require ah/transport/fec0:0:0:2::1-fec0:0:0:1::1/require ; add fec0:0:0:1::1 fec0:0:0:2::1 esp 0x10001 -m tunnel -E 3des-cbc "kamekame12341234kame1234" -A hmac-sha1 "this is the test key" ; add fec0:0:0:1::1 fec0:0:0:2::1 ah 0x10001 -m transport -A hmac-md5 "this is the test" ; add fec0:0:0:2::1 fec0:0:0:1::1 esp 0x10001 -m tunnel -E 3des-cbc "kamekame12341234kame1234" -A hmac-sha1 "this is the test key" ; add fec0:0:0:2::1 fec0:0:0:1::1 ah 0x10001 -m transport -A hmac-md5 "this is the test" ; EOF Making SAs with the different end ESP tunnel mode is required between Host-A and Gateway-A. Encryption algorithm is cast128-cbc, and authentication algorithm for ESP is hmac-sha1. ESP transport mode is recommended between Host-A and Host-B. Encryption algorithm is rc5-cbc, and authentication algorithm for ESP is hmac-md5. ================== ESP ================= | ======= ESP ======= | | | | | Host-A Gateway-A Host-B fec0:0:0:1::1 ---- fec0:0:0:2::1 ---- fec0:0:0:2::2 Configuration at Host-A: &prompt.root; setkey -c <<EOF spdadd fec0:0:0:1::1[any] fec0:0:0:2::2[80] tcp -P out ipsec esp/transport/fec0:0:0:1::1-fec0:0:0:2::2/use esp/tunnel/fec0:0:0:1::1-fec0:0:0:2::1/require ; spdadd fec0:0:0:2::1[80] fec0:0:0:1::1[any] tcp -P in ipsec esp/transport/fec0:0:0:2::2-fec0:0:0:l::1/use esp/tunnel/fec0:0:0:2::1-fec0:0:0:1::1/require ; add fec0:0:0:1::1 fec0:0:0:2::2 esp 0x10001 -m transport -E cast128-cbc "12341234" -A hmac-sha1 "this is the test key" ; add fec0:0:0:1::1 fec0:0:0:2::1 esp 0x10002 -E rc5-cbc "kamekame" -A hmac-md5 "this is the test" ; add fec0:0:0:2::2 fec0:0:0:1::1 esp 0x10003 -m transport -E cast128-cbc "12341234" -A hmac-sha1 "this is the test key" ; add fec0:0:0:2::1 fec0:0:0:1::1 esp 0x10004 -E rc5-cbc "kamekame" -A hmac-md5 "this is the test" ; EOF