Note that this uses `ssh-keyscan` to write in the currently-observed
host fingerprint; if DNS or network is untrusted during initial puppet
apply, this can allow attackers to write their own host key, obviating
the utility of known_hosts.
We do not view this as a likely attack mechanism, since in our
deployment the network and DNS is almost certainly trusted, and if
not, the timing attack to catch only initial configuration is likely
impossible.
572443edc6 removed the callsite that triggered the exec in
`zulip::systemd_daemon_reload`, making its inclusion and ordering via
`require` moot.
Remove the call.
This should give some more room for systems that are still below 4GB
of RAM to use the lower-memory multithreaded mode, which is less
likely to have OOM kills (a very bad experience).
There should be little cost, as few systems are likely allocated with
memory in this range.
The only relevant changes are `PasswordAuthentication no` (which
is now the default) and `MaxStartups 40:50:60` (which is now
unneccesary due to autossh tunnels.
This was changed midway through the implementation, from reading it
from `zulip-secrets.conf`, and a couple locations still reference the
secrets path.
Under heavy request load, it is possible for the conntrack kernel
table to fill up (by default, 256k connections). This leads to DNS
requests failing because they cannot make a new conntrack entry.
Allow all port-53 UDP traffic in and out without connection tracking.
This means that unbound port-53 traffic is no longer filtered out by
the on-host firewall -- but it is already filtered out at the border
firewall, so this does not change the external network posture.
`systemd-resolve` also only binds to 127.0.0.53 on the loopback
interface, so there is no server to attack on inbound port 53.
fcf096c52e removed the callsite which would have notified this
contact. Note that the source config file was presumably installed via the
python-zulip-api package.
149bea8309 added a separate config file
for smokescreen (which is necessary because it can be installed
separately) but failed ot notice that `zulip.template.erb` already had
a config line for it. This leads to failures starting the logrotate
service:
```
logrotate[4158688]: error: zulip:1 duplicate log entry for /var/log/zulip/smokescreen.log
logrotate[4158688]: error: found error in file zulip, skipping
```
Remove the duplicate line.
