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Josh HawkinsandGitHub 890512b054 Container security hardening (phase 3, breaking) (#24081)
* Run the frigate service as the frigate user

* Run go2rtc as its own restricted user

* Run nginx as the frigate user with writable state in /tmp/nginx

* Disable bandwidth stats gracefully when not running as root

* Hand TensorRT model cache ownership to the runtime user

* Document non-root operation and per-hardware device access

* Create /media/frigate after the ownership sweep

* Assert non-root services, JWT migration, and escape hatch in CI

* only write the sweep sentinel when a media volume is mounted

* tolerate homekit config chown failures in the go2rtc run script

* chown the s6 log pipe so non-root nginx can reopen /dev/stdout

* set HOME to /config for non-root services

* run smoke nginx -t and the write probe as the runtime user

* re-own the nginx shm cache on service restart

* discard stdout for the unprivileged smoke nginx -t

* unwrap hard-wrapped prose in the installation docs

* report progress during the ownership sweep

* document EXTRA_GROUPS as the only device access path for dropped services

* expand the non-root device access docs with diagnosis steps and udev rules

* document network storage ownership and the remaining detector hardware

* skip lost+found during the ownership sweep

* hand /tmp/cache to the runtime user before services start

* make bundled models readable by the runtime user

* reload nginx by signaling the master instead of parsing its config as root

* harden root writes into unprivileged-owned paths

Restrict the sweep sentinel to a mount at or below /media/frigate so a
parent /media mount cannot bless a later-shadowed volume. Rebuild
/tmp/nginx root-owned each start so root's cp and tempio writes cannot
follow a symlink an unprivileged nginx planted in the previous run.

* collapse the duplicated sentinel comment

* add a service-runs-as-root helper for granular root services

* validate FRIGATE_ROOT_SERVICES and fail fast on unknown names

* let services listed in FRIGATE_ROOT_SERVICES skip the privilege drop

* record the root-services mode in the sentinel and sweep small trees each boot

* cache the runtime ids in the ownership helper

* chown recordings, previews, and exports to the runtime user at create

* chown the database files after init

* recommend FRIGATE_ROOT_SERVICES in the bandwidth stats warning

* assert granular root services in CI

* document FRIGATE_ROOT_SERVICES

* own every directory level created for a recording segment

* clear the cached runtime ids when ownership tests finish

* skip missing media paths in the per-boot ownership sweep

* clarify granular root services docs

* clean up

* install acl for device access grants

* grant runtime users access to mapped device nodes at boot

* assert device access grants in CI

* document automatic device access grants

* stop telling users device access needs host side setup

* clarify the non-root docs

* link the migration script to the repo

* group the manual device setup under one section

* harden against symlink attacks

/config is owned by the unprivileged runtime user after the ownership sweep, so root operations on files there could be redirected by a planted symlink.

- go2rtc HomeKit setup: replace the root yq/jq normalization and chown with an O_NOFOLLOW helper (prepare_homekit.py), so a symlink at go2rtc_homekit.yml can't redirect a root write or chown onto another file
- go2rtc binary override: ignore /config/go2rtc whenever the service runs as root, so a planted binary can't exec as root under FRIGATE_ROOT_SERVICES
- sweep sentinel: read and write it through safe-sentinel, which trusts only a root-owned regular file and never follows a symlink, so it can't be forged to skip the migration or symlinked to clobber a root file
- ownership sweep: chown with -execdir so a parent directory swapped for a symlink mid-walk can't redirect the chown out of the volume
- validate inputs: restrict DEVICE_ACL_PATHS to /dev, require nonzero numeric EXTRA_GROUPS, and reject PUID/PGID that collide with the go2rtc ids
- docs: correct the TLS key ownership note to match what actually happens

* tweak docs

* stop the ownership sweep chasing entries other mechanisms own

* keep custom binaries out of root services only under granular root
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"""Tests for runtime ownership helpers."""
import unittest
from unittest.mock import patch
from frigate.util import ownership
class FakePwEntry:
pw_uid = 1500
pw_gid = 1500
# The devcontainer image exports FRIGATE_RUN_AS_ROOT, so any test that has to
# reach past the escape-hatch check pins the variable instead of inheriting it.
class TestGetRuntimeIds(unittest.TestCase):
def setUp(self) -> None:
ownership.get_runtime_ids.cache_clear()
# a value cached under this test's patches must not leak into later modules
self.addCleanup(ownership.get_runtime_ids.cache_clear)
@patch("frigate.util.ownership.os.geteuid", return_value=1000)
def test_returns_none_when_not_root(self, _):
assert ownership.get_runtime_ids() is None
@patch.dict("os.environ", {"FRIGATE_RUN_AS_ROOT": "true"})
@patch("frigate.util.ownership.os.geteuid", return_value=0)
def test_returns_none_with_escape_hatch(self, _):
assert ownership.get_runtime_ids() is None
@patch.dict("os.environ", {"FRIGATE_RUN_AS_ROOT": "false"})
@patch("frigate.util.ownership.pwd.getpwnam", side_effect=KeyError)
@patch("frigate.util.ownership.os.geteuid", return_value=0)
def test_returns_none_outside_frigate_image(self, *_):
assert ownership.get_runtime_ids() is None
@patch.dict("os.environ", {"FRIGATE_RUN_AS_ROOT": "false"})
@patch("frigate.util.ownership.pwd.getpwnam", return_value=FakePwEntry())
@patch("frigate.util.ownership.os.geteuid", return_value=0)
def test_returns_frigate_ids_as_root(self, *_):
assert ownership.get_runtime_ids() == (1500, 1500)
@patch.dict("os.environ", {"FRIGATE_RUN_AS_ROOT": "false"})
@patch("frigate.util.ownership.pwd.getpwnam", return_value=FakePwEntry())
@patch("frigate.util.ownership.os.geteuid", return_value=0)
def test_caches_lookup(self, _geteuid, getpwnam):
assert ownership.get_runtime_ids() == (1500, 1500)
assert ownership.get_runtime_ids() == (1500, 1500)
getpwnam.assert_called_once()
class TestChownToRuntime(unittest.TestCase):
def setUp(self) -> None:
ownership.get_runtime_ids.cache_clear()
# a value cached under this test's patches must not leak into later modules
self.addCleanup(ownership.get_runtime_ids.cache_clear)
@patch("frigate.util.ownership.os.chown")
@patch("frigate.util.ownership.get_runtime_ids", return_value=None)
def test_noop_when_no_runtime_ids(self, _, chown):
ownership.chown_to_runtime("/config/test")
chown.assert_not_called()
@patch("frigate.util.ownership.os.chown")
@patch("frigate.util.ownership.get_runtime_ids", return_value=(1500, 1500))
def test_chowns_to_runtime_ids(self, _, chown):
ownership.chown_to_runtime("/config/test")
chown.assert_called_once_with("/config/test", 1500, 1500)
@patch("frigate.util.ownership.os.chown", side_effect=OSError("ro fs"))
@patch("frigate.util.ownership.get_runtime_ids", return_value=(1500, 1500))
def test_swallows_oserror(self, *_):
ownership.chown_to_runtime("/config/test") # must not raise
if __name__ == "__main__":
unittest.main()