postfwd2 - chroot setup ======================= If you care about security and want to run postfwd2 within a chroot environment you have to setup it up before. This document will give you an idea about what has to be prepared. How to create a minimal chroot environment for postfwd2 ======================================================= Tested with SLES 11 x86_64, customize this to suit your specific system. For example, on SLES 10 x86_64, use perl version 5.8.8 instead of 5.10.0 and glibc version 2.4 instead of 2.11.1. cd $CHROOTDIR for dir in tmp dev var var/tmp etc lib64 usr usr/lib usr/lib/perl5 \ usr/lib/perl5/site_perl \ usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.0 \ usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.0/Net \ usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.0/Net/Server \ usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.0/Net/Server/Proto ; do mkdir $dir chmod --reference /$dir $dir chown --reference /$dir $dir done for file in dev/null etc/protocols etc/localtime etc/resolv.conf \ lib64/libnss_files-2.11.1.so lib64/libnss_files.so.2 \ usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.0/Net/Server/Proto/TCP.pm \ usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.0/Net/Server/Proto/UNIX.pm ; do cp -p /$file $file done grep nobody /etc/passwd > etc/passwd grep nobody /etc/group > etc/group echo -e 'passwd: files\ngroup: files\nprotocols: files' > etc/nsswitch.conf => Configure your syslog daemon to listen to $CHROOTDIR/dev/log: echo 'SYSLOGD_ADDITIONAL_SOCKET_POSTFWD="$CHROOTDIR/dev/log"' \ >> /etc/sysconfig/syslog /etc/init.d/syslog restart => Place your postfwd configuration in $CHROOTDIR: cp $POSTFWDCONF $CHROOTDIR/etc/postfwd.conf => Start postfwd2: /usr/local/sbin/postfwd2 --file=/etc/postfwd.conf --chroot=$CHROOTDIR List of directories =================== tmp lib64 dev var var/tmp etc usr usr/lib usr/lib/perl5 usr/lib/perl5/site_perl usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.0 usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.0/Net usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.0/Net/Server usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.0/Net/Server/Proto List of files ============= lib64/libnss_files.so.2 lib64/libnss_files-2.11.1.so dev/null dev/log etc/localtime etc/protocols etc/postfwd.conf etc/nsswitch.conf etc/passwd etc/resolv.conf etc/group usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.0/Net/Server/Proto/UNIX.pm usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.0/Net/Server/Proto/TCP.pm Thanks to Lukas Wunner for providing this howto and the patch for postfwd2!