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Originally created by @sajolida on #11152 (Redmine)

The days of unauthenticated, cleartext communication on Internet are over. Currently the communication between our primary rsync server and all our mirrors is cleartext and unauthenticated. We should use TLS.

The Puppet code that manages our primary rsync server is linked from https://tails.boum.org/contribute/working_together/roles/sysadmins/#rsync. How one can get a Let’s Encrypt certificate for rsyncd is left to be researched. Once we support TLS on our side, we need to have all mirror operators adjust their cronjob to have their rsync client use TLS.

We could do something like:

$ cat /etc/xinetd.d/rsync-syncproxy-ssl
service rsync-ssl
{
        bind            = W.X.Y.Z
        type            = UNLISTED
        port            = 1873
        id              = rsync-syncproxy-ssl

        socket_type     = stream
        protocol        = tcp
        wait            = no
        user            = root
        server          = /usr/bin/stunnel4
        server_args     = /etc/rsyncd-syncproxy-stunnel.conf
        nice            = 10
        instances       = 200
        per_source      = 3
        cps             = 0 0
}

$ cat /etc/rsyncd-syncproxy-stunnel.conf
cert = /etc/ssl/OUR_CERTIFICATE_CHAIN
key = /etc/ssl/OUR_KEY

debug = notice

client = no
socket = a:SO_LINGER=1:60
socket = a:SO_KEEPALIVE=1

exec = /usr/bin/rsync
execargs = rsync --daemon --config=/etc/rsyncd-syncproxy.conf

Related issues

• Related to tails#8437 (closed)
• Blocked by tails#15162 (closed)