Re: [pve-devel] [RFC manager 3/3] fix #6094: api: acme: allow to get plugin info with Sys.Audit on /

[Daniel Kral <d.kral@proxmox.com>]

On 5/7/25 11:15, Fabian Grünbichler wrote:
> On May 6, 2025 3:52 pm, Fiona Ebner wrote:
>> Am 17.02.25 um 13:19 schrieb Daniel Kral:
>>> Relax the required permissions to query the list of ACME plugins and
>>> their configurations. Both API endpoints do only read the ACME plugins
>>> configuration file but does not modify any system state.
>>
>> Can't there be secrets in there that should not leak? I.e. the plugin
>> config file is in /etc/pve/priv, so I'm not sure this should be relaxed.
>> Even if it doesn't modify the state, it might be too sensitive for
>> Sys.Audit.
> 
> we could maybe do what we do in other index API calls, and restrict the
> returned information in case Sys.Modify is missing? this would basically
> entail stripping the 'data' option for DNS plugins (which might contain
> credentials), everything else should not be sensitive AFAICT..
> 
> OTOH, I am not sure there's much benefit to it either ;)
> 
> the ACME API parts which are still root only are probably more
> interesting cleanup targets!

I agree, there's not much benefit to lower that here and would just 
complicate what is exposed to the API without a user requesting this. 
Let's drop this patch then :)


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