Migrate user home directories on image update
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	dmbaturin
	Aug 29 2019, 10:29 AM

Description

Right now people lose all their command history and custom configs when VyOS is updated. That data is not actually lost, but you need to know some secrets of the internals to recover it—the path is anything but obvious.

Ideally we should use a separate /home, but for now, we can migrate that data to the new image at least.

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Difficulty level: Easy (less than an hour)
Version: 1.2.2
Why the issue appeared?: Will be filled on close
Is it a breaking change?: Perfectly compatible
Issue type: Feature (new functionality)

Event Timeline

dmbaturin created this task.Aug 29 2019, 10:29 AM

pasik subscribed.Aug 29 2019, 2:35 PM

From a post-exploitation perspective, this would permit attackers who've compromised an older vulnerable version to persist their payloads in the shell elements (~/.bashrc and friends) across upgrades.

erkin set Is it a breaking change? to Unspecified (possibly destroys the router).Aug 31 2021, 6:56 PM

erkin set Issue type to Feature (new functionality).

syncer edited projects, added VyOS 1.3 Equuleus (1.3.0); removed VyOS 1.3 Equuleus.Nov 6 2021, 11:25 AM

dmbaturin edited projects, added VyOS 1.4 Sagitta; removed VyOS 1.3 Equuleus (1.3.0).Nov 9 2021, 5:00 AM

@dmbaturin Do we really need this?

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dmbaturin triaged this task as Wishlist priority.Jan 9 2024, 3:44 PM

dmbaturin edited projects, added VyOS 1.5 Circinus; removed VyOS 1.4 Sagitta.

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