SUBTERFUGUE Screenshots


SimplePathSandbox, as a regular user

Here's a screenshot of SUBTERFUGUE using the SimplePathSandbox trick. This trick restricts read and write access to the specified directory trees. In this example, we're specifying that all files may be read, but that only /tmp/abc (and the files it contains, recursively, since it's a directory here) and /dev/tty may be written. (The 'net=1' means that network access is enabled.)

The copy of bash and other commands used here are the unmodified Debian versions. All filesystems are ext2, mounted read/write from ordinary disks, with no special file attributes set. Nothing up our sleeves, as it were.

bash-2.03$ sf --trick=SimplePathSandbox:"read=['/'];write=['/tmp/abc', '/dev/tty'];net=1" bash
bash-2.03$ cd /tmp
bash-2.03$ ls -l foo
-rw-rw-r--    1 mkc      mkc         11664 Feb  3 01:26 foo
bash-2.03$ touch foo
write deny (open): 'foo'
bash-2.03$ ls -l foo
-rw-rw-r--    1 mkc      mkc         11664 Feb  3 01:26 foo
bash-2.03$ rm -f foo
write deny (unlink): 'foo'
rm: cannot unlink `foo': Permission denied
bash-2.03$ ls -l foo
-rw-rw-r--    1 mkc      mkc         11664 Feb  3 01:26 foo
bash-2.03$ cd /tmp/abc
bash-2.03$ ls -al
total 44
drwxr-xr-x    2 mkc      mkc          1024 Feb  3 01:12 .
drwxrwxrwt   13 root     root        39936 Feb  3 01:26 ..
-rw-r--r--    1 mkc      mkc             4 Feb  3 01:12 a
-rw-r--r--    1 mkc      mkc             4 Feb  3 01:12 b
-rw-r--r--    1 mkc      mkc             4 Feb  3 01:12 c
bash-2.03$ echo foobar > d
bash-2.03$ ls -al
total 45
drwxr-xr-x    2 mkc      mkc          1024 Feb  3 01:27 .
drwxrwxrwt   13 root     root        39936 Feb  3 01:26 ..
-rw-r--r--    1 mkc      mkc             4 Feb  3 01:12 a
-rw-r--r--    1 mkc      mkc             4 Feb  3 01:12 b
-rw-r--r--    1 mkc      mkc             4 Feb  3 01:12 c
-rw-r--r--    1 mkc      mkc             7 Feb  3 01:27 d
bash-2.03$ cp a ..
write deny (open): '../a'
cp: cannot create regular file `../a': Permission denied
bash-2.03$ exit
exit
write deny (open): '/usr/local/home/mkc/.bash_history'

SimplePathSandbox, as root

You are strongly advised not to try anything like this yourself (yet), unless you're using a scratch system that you don't mind losing.

bash-2.03$ su
Password:
microdog# sf --trick=SimplePathSandbox:"read=['/'];write=['/tmp/abc', '/dev/tty'];net=1" bash
microdog# cd /tmp
microdog# ls -l foo
-rw-rw-r--    1 mkc      mkc         11664 Feb  3 01:26 foo
microdog# rm -f foo
write deny (unlink): 'foo'
rm: cannot unlink `foo': Permission denied
microdog# ls -l foo
-rw-rw-r--    1 mkc      mkc         11664 Feb  3 01:26 foo
microdog# touch /arf
write deny (open): '/arf'
touch: /arf: Permission denied
The file 'redinstall' is an imaginary install script for Redmond Pandemic, Inc. It has a couple of bugs.
microdog# cat /tmp/redinstall 
#!/bin/sh

set -x

rm -f /etc/passwd
cat <<'EOF' > /etc/passwd
billg::0:0:That's *Mr* Third to you!:/:/command.com
EOF

cp /dev/null /usr/bin/passwd

microdog# /tmp/redinstall 
+ rm -f /etc/passwd
write deny (unlink): '/etc/passwd'
rm: cannot unlink `/etc/passwd': Permission denied
+ cat
write deny (open): '/tmp/t.HHMckb'
/tmp/redinstall: cannot create temp file for here document: Permission denied
+ cp /dev/null /usr/bin/passwd
write deny (open): '/usr/bin/passwd'
cp: cannot create regular file `/usr/bin/passwd': Permission denied
microdog# exit
exit
write deny (open): '/root/.bash_history'
We see now that /usr/bin/passwd is unscathed, and that it can be altered by root again once we have exited sf.
microdog# cd /usr/bin
microdog# ls -l passwd
-rwsr-xr-x    1 root     root        28896 Jul 17  1998 passwd
microdog# mv passwd passwd.tmp
microdog# ls -l passwd
ls: passwd: No such file or directory
microdog# mv passwd.tmp passwd 
microdog# ls -l passwd
-rwsr-xr-x    1 root     root        28896 Jul 17  1998 passwd
microdog# exit

Trace

This shows the Trace trick, which basically does what 'strace' does. (The output is very unpolished compared to strace, and very little argument decoding has yet been implemented.)

bash-2.03$ sf --trick=Trace date
[16433] brk(0) =
[16433] 		brk() = 134538648
[16433] open('/etc/ld.so.preload', 0, 1073818004) =
[16433] 		open() = -2 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
[16433] open('/etc/ld.so.cache', 0, 0) =
[16433] 		open() = 4
[16433] fstat(4, -1073744172) =
[16433] 		fstat() = 0
[16433] mmap(-1073744116, -1073744172, 1073815716, 1073817392, 4, -1073743964) =
[16433] 		mmap() = 1073819648
[16433] close(4) =
[16433] 		close() = 0
[16433] open('/lib/libc.so.6', 0, 1) =
[16433] 		open() = 4
[16433] fstat(4, -1073744220) =
[16433] 		fstat() = 0
[16433] read(4, -1073748228, 4096) =
[16433] 		read() = 4096 '\177ELF\001\001\001\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\003\000\003\000\001\000\000\000\344\210\001\0004\000\000\000'
[16433] mmap(-1073748388, 3, 1073815716, -1073748016, -1073748356, -1073743916) =
[16433] 		mmap() = 1073840128
[16433] mprotect(1074716672, 27900, 0) =
[16433] 		mprotect() = 0
[16433] mmap(-1073748388, 16384, 1073815716, -1073748016, -1073748332, -1073743916) =
[16433] 		mmap() = 1074716672
[16433] mmap(-1073748388, 0, 1073815716, 1074733056, -1073748332, -1073743916) =
[16433] 		mmap() = 1074733056
[16433] close(4) =
[16433] 		close() = 0
[16433] munmap(1073819648, 19819) =
[16433] 		munmap() = 0
[16433] personality(0) =
[16433] 		personality() = 0
[16433] getpid() =
[16433] 		getpid() = 16433
[16433] brk(0) =
[16433] 		brk() = 134538648
[16433] brk(134539064) =
[16433] 		brk() = 134539064
[16433] brk(134541312) =
[16433] 		brk() = 134541312
[16433] time(-1073742676) =
[16433] 		time() = 949639556
[16433] open('/etc/localtime', 0, 438) =
[16433] 		open() = 4
[16433] read(4, -1073742988, 44) =
[16433] 		read() = 44 'TZif\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\004\000\000\000\004\000\000\000\000'
[16433] read(4, 134539312, 1170) =
[16433] 		read() = 1170 '\236\246,\200\237\272\371p\240\206\016\200\241\232\333p\242\313t\000\243\203\367\360\244E\322\200\245c\331\360'
[16433] fstat(4, -1073743536) =
[16433] 		fstat() = 0
[16433] mmap(-1073743432, -1073743536, 1074727000, 4096, 134539128, -1073743280) =
[16433] 		mmap() = 1073819648
[16433] read(4, 1073819648, 4096) =
[16433] 		read() = 48 '\377\377\271\260\001\000\377\377\253\240\000\004\377\377\271\260\001\010\377\377\271\260\000\014CWT\000CST\000'
[16433] close(4) =
[16433] 		close() = 0
[16433] munmap(1073819648, 4096) =
[16433] 		munmap() = 0
[16433] fstat(1, -1073744788) =
[16433] 		fstat() = 0
[16433] mmap(-1073744684, -1073744788, 1074727000, 4096, 134538080, -1073744532) =
[16433] 		mmap() = 1073819648
[16433] ioctl(1, 21505, -1073744808) =
[16433] 		ioctl() = 0
[16433] write(1, 'Thu Feb  3 22:45:56 CST 2000\012', 29) =
Thu Feb  3 22:45:56 CST 2000
[16433] 		write() = 29
[16433] close(1) =
[16433] 		close() = 0
[16433] munmap(1073819648, 4096) =
[16433] 		munmap() = 0
[16433] _exit(0) =
[16433] exited (status = 0)

NetThrottle

Here's a shot of the NetThrottle trick, which limits network bandwith. It has a GTK interface to allow the bandwidth limit to be interactively modified.

image of NetThrottle limiting an
	ncftpget session

In this example, NetThrottle is being used to keep a kernel download from swamping the network connection.


TimeWarp

The TimeWarp trick can be used to control the application's experience of passing time. In this screenshot, we see several independent SUBTERFUGUE sessions being used to run xclock with differing warp factors.

image of several xclock's showing
	different times