Script overlays commonly need 7z and md5sum (e.g. the l4d2center map
sync recipe). Add p7zip-full to the apt install line, p7zip + p7zip-plugins
to dnf, and coreutils explicitly so md5sum is guaranteed even on slim base
images. Lock both in with a regression test.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
SQLite in WAL mode (the default for this app) maintains left4me.db-wal
and left4me.db-shm sidecar files alongside the main DB. All three must
be writable by the web service uid; if any one is root-owned, SQLite
reports "attempt to write a readonly database" on the next INSERT —
which surfaced as a 500 on POST /overlays/{id}/script after I'd done
ad-hoc root-side sqlite3.connect() inspection earlier and the resulting
root-owned WAL/SHM persisted.
Loop over all three paths in the deploy chmod step so root-owned
sidecars are corrected on every deploy. Idempotent.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The v2 hardening tightened the DB to mode 0640 owned by root:left4me,
intending to block reads from the sandbox uid (l4d2-sandbox, not in the
left4me group). It did — but it also took away write access from the web
service itself, which runs as user left4me. With root owning the file,
left4me only had group-read; INSERTs into the jobs table failed with
"attempt to write a readonly database" and surfaced as a 500 on POST
/overlays/{id}/script.
Owner left4me + group left4me + mode 0640 keeps the same external
posture (l4d2-sandbox gets nothing via "other") while restoring the
web service's read+write access via "owner".
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adds IPAddressDeny= to the sandbox unit covering loopback (127/8 + ::1),
link-local (169.254/16 + fe80::/10), multicast (224/4 + ff00::/8), all
RFC1918 v4 (10/8, 172.16/12, 192.168/16), CGNAT (100.64/10), and ULA v6
(fc00::/7). The kernel attaches systemd's sd_fw_egress BPF program to
the unit's cgroup; egress packets matching any of the deny prefixes are
silently dropped at the cgroup boundary.
Important: do NOT pair this with `IPAddressAllow=any`. Documentation
claims "more specific rule wins" but on this systemd 257 + kernel 6.12
combo, having both set causes the allow to win unconditionally — the
deny gets ignored. Empty IPAddressAllow + populated IPAddressDeny is the
correct shape: kernel default "allow all" applies to non-listed
addresses, and the listed prefixes are blocked.
Because the host's resolv.conf typically points at a private-IP DNS
server (10.0.0.1 in the test deploy), blocking RFC1918 also kills DNS.
Adds a static /etc/left4me/sandbox-resolv.conf with public resolvers
(Cloudflare 1.1.1.1, Google 8.8.8.8) and bind-mounts that into the
sandbox at /etc/resolv.conf, replacing the host's resolver inside the
sandbox only.
Smoke-tested on ckn@10.0.4.128:
- public 1.1.1.1:443: CONNECTED
- public HTTPS via DNS (steamcommunity.com): 200
- localhost web app 127.0.0.1:8000: blocked (TimeoutError)
- localhost sshd 127.0.0.1:22: blocked
- private LAN ssh 10.0.4.128:22: blocked
- private DNS 10.0.0.1:53: blocked
AF_UNIX stays in RestrictAddressFamilies — dropping it would risk
breaking NSS / syslog for marginal gain, and the IP-level filter
addresses the primary threat (reaching the host's HTTP/SSH services).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
bubblewrap is no longer used now that left4me-script-sandbox runs as a
systemd service unit. Remove it from the apt-get and dnf install lines.
Also tighten the application database file mode after the alembic
upgrade step: chown root:left4me, chmod 0640. The DB had been created
at default 0644 by SQLite's open() call inside the web service, which
made it world-readable on the host — i.e. readable by any uid that can
traverse /var/lib/left4me, including the sandbox's l4d2-sandbox uid.
Smoke-testing the v2 sandbox prototype on ckn@10.0.4.128 surfaced this:
the sandbox could read "SQLite format 3" from the DB until the parent
dir was masked with TemporaryFileSystem=. Tightening the file mode is
the host-level fix; the sandbox-level mask is defense in depth.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Migration 0005_script_overlays drops the legacy l4d2center_maps /
cedapug_maps overlay rows but leaves their /var/lib/left4me/overlays/{id}
directories on disk. When the web app subsequently creates a new overlay
and AUTOINCREMENT issues an id matching one of those orphans,
create_overlay_directory(exist_ok=False) crashes with FileExistsError —
which surfaced as a 500 on POST /overlays the first time a script
overlay was created on a deployed test box.
Adds a sentinel-gated sweep in deploy-test-server.sh that lists overlay
ids in the DB, removes any directory under overlays/ whose id has no
matching row, and drops the now-unused global_overlay_cache. Mirrors the
.kernel-overlay-migrated sentinel pattern so reruns are no-ops.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Smoke testing on the test host revealed three issues with the helper as
shipped:
1. bwrap 0.11+ rejects --uid without --unshare-user. Switching the UID
drop from inside bwrap to systemd-run (--uid=l4d2-sandbox
--gid=l4d2-sandbox) sidesteps the userns UID-mapping headaches and
keeps file ownership on the bind-mounted /overlay matching
l4d2-sandbox on the host (which the wipe path relies on).
2. bwrap running as an unprivileged uid still needs a user namespace to
set up its mount-namespace bind-mounts. Adding --unshare-user-try
gives it the userns context when needed and is a no-op otherwise.
3. /etc/alternatives wasn't bind-mounted, so symlinked tools like
/usr/bin/awk -> /etc/alternatives/awk fell over inside the sandbox.
Adds the ro-bind.
Also: the helper now chowns the overlay dir to l4d2-sandbox before bwrap
(idempotent — needed because the web app creates the dir as left4me),
and the deploy script chmods /var/lib/left4me to 0711 so l4d2-sandbox
can traverse to the bind-mount source.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
deploy-test-server.sh: provisions the l4d2-sandbox system user (no home,
nologin shell) and installs the bubblewrap apt/dnf package; copies the
left4me-script-sandbox helper into /usr/local/libexec/left4me with mode
0755. Drops the global_overlay_cache directory provisioning, the
refresh-global-overlays unit installation, and the timer enable.
Deletes the orphaned left4me-refresh-global-overlays.{service,timer}
files. Trims the matching paragraph from deploy/README.md.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Drop fuse-overlayfs / fuse3 from the apt/dnf install line — the new
mount path is kernel overlayfs via the left4me-overlay helper, no
fuse userspace needed.
Add a one-shot migration block gated by /var/lib/left4me/.kernel-overlay-migrated
that runs before daemon-reload: stop gameservers + web service, force-
unmount any leftover fuse or overlay mounts under runtime/, then wipe
and recreate empty upper/ and work/ for every instance. fuse-overlayfs
running as a non-root user used user.fuseoverlayfs.* xattrs that kernel
overlayfs ignores, so a pre-existing upper/ from the fuse era would
resurrect "deleted" files.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
New privileged helper at /usr/local/libexec/left4me/left4me-overlay
(Python, system /usr/bin/python3, stdlib only) takes only the instance
name, parses instance.env for L4D2_LOWERDIRS, validates each lowerdir
against an allowlist (installation/, overlays/, global_overlay_cache/,
workshop_cache/), refuses upperdirs tainted with user.fuseoverlayfs.*
xattrs from the prior fuse era, and execs `nsenter --mount=/proc/1/ns/mnt
-- mount -t overlay ...` so the resulting mount lives in the host
namespace. Mirrors the existing left4me-systemctl / left4me-journalctl
pattern; sudoers entry is verb-constrained.
KernelOverlayFSMounter implements the existing OverlayMounter ABC,
deriving the instance name from the merged path. No call sites use it
yet — that's the next commit.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adds two managed system overlays (l4d2center-maps, cedapug-maps) that
fetch curated map archives from upstream sources and reconcile addons
symlinks for non-Steam maps. A daily systemd timer enqueues a coalesced
refresh_global_overlays worker job; downloads, extraction, and rebuilds
run in the existing job worker and surface in the job log UI.
Schema: GlobalOverlaySource / GlobalOverlayItem / GlobalOverlayItemFile
plus nullable Job.user_id so system jobs render as "system" in the UI.
The new builder reconciles symlinks against the per-source vpk cache
and leaves foreign symlinks untouched. Initialize-time guard refuses
to mount a partial overlay if any expected vpk is missing from cache.
Refresh service uses shutil.move to handle EXDEV when /tmp and the
cache live on different filesystems.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Exclude local agent state from deploy archives, avoid recursive ownership over active runtime mounts, and let Alembic own schema upgrades before app startup.
Adds /var/lib/left4me/workshop_cache to the deploy mkdir list (owned by
the left4me runtime user). Updates deploy/README.md to document the new
directory and the workshop overlay layout: web app downloads VPKs into
the cache and symlinks them into overlays/{overlay_id}/left4dead2/addons/.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
When tar runs on macOS it embeds ._* resource-fork sidecars next to each
file. These ended up under l4d2web/alembic/versions/ on the target and
alembic tried to import them as migration modules, failing with
"source code string cannot contain null bytes". Set COPYFILE_DISABLE=1
and add an --exclude '._*' so the archive is portable.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The HTTP-only test deployment binds gunicorn to 0.0.0.0:8000 with no TLS
terminator, so a hardcoded SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE=True breaks browser
login. Make it opt-out via env (default True outside TESTING) and set
SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE=false in the generated web.env so the test box
keeps working over HTTP.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
