[389-users] Re: Fwd: dscontainer as non root

On Mon, Feb 12, 2024 at 5:37 PM Antony Jose <anto346@gmail.com> wrote:

Thanks Viktor for the response. Appreciate it. 

 I have provided an attachment with the details. Dockerfile, kubectl error log and security context construct has been provided.

I am using sles15 bci as base os.  Do we need add 389 user in Dockerfile? 

Please let me know if you want any further information. 

The error:

KeyError: 'getpwuid(): uid not found: 389'

indicates that there is no 389 uid found inside the container.

When the 389-ds package is installed, dirsrv user is created by using systemd-sysusers configuration.

In Fedora/RHEL it has a preference for 389 uid/gid: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/389-ds-base/blob/rawhide/f/389-ds-base.sysusers

But in SUSE it has no preference and takes the first available uid/gid: https://build.opensuse.org/package/view_file/network:ldap/389-ds/dirsrv-user.conf?expand=1

a28855ee79c7:/ # cat /etc/passwd
root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash
dirsrv:x:499:486:User for 389 directory server:/var/lib/dirsrv:/sbin/nologin

So in your case dirsrv user has 499 as the uid and 486 as gid.

I don't know how stable these mappings are.

And securityContext accepts these values as int64 only, so it's not possible to specify 'dirsrv' user:

https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/kubernetes-api/workload-resources/pod-v1/#security-context

You can add dirsrv user and group with 389 uid/gid before installing 389-ds. And then use 389 as runAsUser and fsGroup values.

HTH

On Mon, Feb 12, 2024 at 9:38 PM Viktor Ashirov <vashirov@redhat.com> wrote:

Hi Antony,

On Mon, Feb 12, 2024 at 3:37 PM Mark Reynolds <mareynol@redhat.com> wrote:

Forwarding to the correct list....

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Subject:	dscontainer as non root
Date:	Mon, 12 Feb 2024 20:01:09 +0530
From:	Antony Jose <anto346@gmail.com>
To:	389-users-owner@lists.fedoraproject.org

Hi,

Can we run dscontainer as non root process. I have deployed dscontainer on k8s cluster as root user. However running as root user is not the best security practice. Is there a tested way we can reliably run ds389 as non root user. I tried tweaking security policies to use a non root user. However, I get errors during dscontainer start up. 

dscontainer certainly can run as non-root user, in the doc that you linked there is a securityContext section with runAsUser and fsGroup values that are set to 389, which is dirsrv user.

Can you share errors that you get?

Thanks.

 

Took inspiration from this doc https://www.port389.org/docs/389ds/howto/howto-deploy-389ds-on-openshift.html

Regards

Antony

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