Check list security for feminist servers

Checklist for security on a feminist server:

General recomendations

• Active unattended upgrades
• ufw / allow new port ssh
• SSH server: Allow ssh only with key, no password PasswordAuthentication no
• Change the port / remember add ufw allow new port ssh
• Disallow login with root ( PermitRootLogin no)
• Activate fail2ban. /configura new port ssh
• Activate things like chkrootkit rkhunter etckeeper
• Allow only TLSv 1.2 (no 1.0 y 1.1)
• For software or service installed check file permissions and allow minimal needed
• External services: If installing mysql, mongodb, ldap etc check that only uses localhost.
• Apache: Include Security header and CSP in vhost configuration + Install and configure some softwares on the host : apache2 LXC
• Notifications: Configure an everyday mail report sent to sysadmins
• Logging: Logwatch + Configure what to log and what not
• Security for containers depending on the service

Fail2ban

• failregex = fail reg ex ->> define la regla con expresiones regulares en el filtro/define the rule with regular expression in the filter
• regex = expresión regular/frequent expression
• los filtros están en/the filters are in: /etc/fail2ban/filter.d/
• es necesario crear filtros para que fail2ban las utilice para luego ejecutar acciones/It is necessary to create filters so that fail2ban can use them for executing actions
• Actualmente fail2ban establece filtros para Apache, sshd, qmail, vsftpd, lighttpd, Postfix y Courier Mail Server/Actually fail2ban can create filters for Apache, sshd, qmail, vsftpd, lighttpd, Postfix y Courier Mail Server
• Los filtros son escritos con expresiones regulares de Python que establecen la regla que hará disparar una determinada acción sobre la IP que origina el hecho. La tupla (regla, acción) o (filtro, acción) es llamado “Jail” o “prisión”, y es lo que determina la penalización a un host maligno/The filters are written with regular expressions from Python that establishes rules that will start a specific action from the IP that is creating the act. The "tupla" (rule, action) or (filter, action) is called “Jail”and it is what determines the penalisation of a malign host.
• Los logs de fail2ban se pueden ver en/you can see the logs of fail2ban here: /var/log/fail2ban.log
• Para ver que ips has sido baneadas/you can see the banned ips here: sudo cat /var/log/fail2ban.log | grep 'Ban'
• Revisarlas por jails/or you can review the jails here: fail2ban-client status ssh
• Otra manera guay de verlo es/Another nice way of seeing it: sudo iptables -L -n | awk '$1=="REJECT" && $4!="0.0.0.0/0"'
• Para ver el estado de fail2ban y las jaulas activadas/to see the fail2ban status and the activated jails: fail2ban-client status
• Para reiniciar la configuracion de una jaula/fo restarting the config of a jail: fail2ban-client reload sshd

More info here

ssh-server config

• Hacer una copia de seguridad de la conf/Make a security back up copy of the conf: cp /etc/ssh/sshd_config /etc/ssh/sshd_config.bk
• Para ver que conexiones por ssh se han establecido/To see what connections have been achievd by SSH: ss -n -o state established '( dport = :22 or sport = :22 )'
• Revisar/Review: /etc/ssh/sshd_config

Port 22XX

MaxAuthTries 3

PubkeyAuthentication yes

IgnoreRhosts yes

PasswordAuthentication no

PermitEmptyPasswords no

UsePAM no

X11Forwarding no

ChallengeResponseAuthentication no

PermitRootLogin no

PermitRootLogin without-password

Protocolo 2

StrictModes yes

Logging

SyslogFacility AUTH

LogLevel INFO

• Por buscar/To look for:

PrintMotd no --> esto te muestra el mensaje de inicio/this shows you the message at the beginning AcceptEnv LANG LC_* lo dejo por defecto/Let it by default ChallengeResponseAuthentication no -> tiene que estar a no/should be as no

• Cambiar Port 22XX - acordarse de abrir el firewall y poner el nuevo puerto en fail2ban/Change Port 22XX - remember to open the firewall and put new port in fail2ban
• Para checkear si la configuracion esta bien, antes de reiniciar/ For checking th configuration is fine before restarting: sshd -t
• Para aplicar cambios/For applying changes: service sshd restart

Configuracion security Debian server

• limit the access to ssh-key connections

copiar tu llave al servidor: > ssh-copy-id -i user@server

Cambiar la configuracion para solo permitir conexiones con ssh-keys

> nano /etc/ssh/sshd_config

Modify or add the following line > PasswordAuthentication no

• change the port for ssh

• use fail2ban (Which jails are important to enable? sshd, I've seen you have much more! )

• change the info of the server Apache is giving with ServerTokens and ServerSignature

Open up /etc/apache2/conf.d/security Set ServerTokens OS to Prod. Turn ServerSignature to Off. Restart Apache web server.

• Stop/avoid portmapper

• iptables enabled (together with fail2ban)

• what more? network wrappers?