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redis service: Listen on localhost by default #100195

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Motivation for this change

Fixes #100192.

All other database servers in NixOS also use this safe-by-default setting.

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I agree with this change in general, I'm not sure about the expectations of the release notes text. Should it mention a way to revert to the previous behaviour? Is this something we want to get into 20.09 if possible? Redis does by default listen on localhost on all other distros, so this honestly is unexpected behaviour. CC @jonringer

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Should it mention a way to revert to the previous behaviour?

I don't think that is necessary, because the release notes describe what the previous and new behaviour are, and the the option docs explain how to to get the previous behaviour.

Is this something we want to get into 20.09 if possible?

My feeling is "no" because we're very close to the 20.09 release so it wouldn't get the usual testing of people wo run unstable in case there is fallout (even though I find it ulikely), and I it's not security critical because Redis makes it a no-op listener (thus I also think that the 1.severity: security label is not necessary).

It would make 20.09 slightly prettier, but I wouldn't land prettification changes last minute.

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Protected mode

Unfortunately many users fail to protect Redis instances from being accessed from external networks. Many instances are simply left exposed on the internet with public IPs. For this reasons since version 3.2.0, when Redis is executed with the default configuration (binding all the interfaces) and without any password in order to access it, it enters a special mode called protected mode. In this mode Redis only replies to queries from the loopback interfaces, and reply to other clients connecting from other addresses with an error, explaining what is happening and how to configure Redis properly.

We expect protected mode to seriously decrease the security issues caused by unprotected Redis instances executed without proper administration, however the system administrator can still ignore the error given by Redis and just disable protected mode or manually bind all the interfaces.

Ah, this was probably added when that big fallout happened 3y back.

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redis service: Listen on localhost by default. Fixes NixOS#100192.
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All other database servers in NixOS also use this safe-by-default setting.
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nh2 commented Nov 8, 2020

No counter arguments and this looks like a very good idea. Merging.

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mweinelt commented Nov 8, 2020

Yes, sorry for not getting back to you. This is indeed a good idea.

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nh2 commented Nov 8, 2020

@mweinelt No problem, I didn't expect you to comment further -- my understanding was that you were already in support of the idea.

I just wanted to accompany my merge with a reason (that nobody came up and said it'd be bad).

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