Move the supported systemd path to two services: an owner-user bangerd for
orchestration and a narrow root helper for bridge/tap, NAT/resolver, dm/loop,
and Firecracker ownership. This removes repeated sudo from daily vm and image
flows without leaving the general daemon running as root.
Add install metadata, system install/status/restart/uninstall commands, and a
system-owned runtime layout. Keep user SSH/config material in the owner home,
lock file_sync to the owner home, and move daemon known_hosts handling out of
the old root-owned control path.
Route privileged lifecycle steps through typed privilegedOps calls, harden the
two systemd units, and rewrite smoke plus docs around the supported service
model.
Verified with make build, make test, make lint, and make smoke on the
supported systemd host path.
Previously the daemon socket, per-VM firecracker API socket, and vsock
socket were transiently world-exposed on hosts without XDG_RUNTIME_DIR:
the runtime directory landed in /tmp at 0755, Firecracker ran with
umask 000 (mode 0666 sockets), and only a follow-up chown/chmod in
EnsureSocketAccess tightened them. A local attacker could race into
bangerd.sock or the firecracker API socket during that window.
Three changes:
- internal/paths/paths.go: RuntimeDir is now created (and re-chmod'd if
stale) at 0700 unconditionally. When XDG_RUNTIME_DIR is unset and we
fall back to /tmp/banger-runtime-<uid>, Ensure() now verifies the
parent dir is owned by the current uid and 0700 mode — refusing to
place sockets inside a directory someone else created. Symlink swaps
rejected via Lstat.
- internal/firecracker/client.go: launch firecracker with umask 077
instead of umask 000 so the API socket is mode 0600 from birth. The
chown in fcproc.EnsureSocketAccess still transfers ownership from
root to the invoking user afterwards.
- internal/daemon/fcproc/fcproc.go: EnsureSocketDir now creates (and
re-chmod's) the runtime socket directory at 0700.
Tests cover the tightening path — an existing 0755 RuntimeDir is
re-chmod'd on Ensure.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
