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Category: Proxmox

LXC, Proxmox

[Proxmox] Unprivileged Container: Using local directory bind mount points

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https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Unprivileged_LXC_containers
https://www.reddit.com/r/Proxmox/comments/jz5ugx/lxc_user_mapping_help/

I had to map my lxc user nocin (uid=1000(nocin) gid=1000(nocin)) to user nocin (uid=1000(nocin) gid=1000(nocin)) on the host. So they have the same uid and gid on the host and inside the container and I had to map 1000 to 1000.

$ nano /etc/pve/lxc/114.conf

# had to append these lines
lxc.idmap: u 0 100000 1000
lxc.idmap: g 0 100000 1000
lxc.idmap: u 1000 1000 1
lxc.idmap: g 1000 1000 1
lxc.idmap: u 1001 101001 64535
lxc.idmap: g 1001 101001 64535

Also append the following line to /etc/subuid and /etc/subgid.

root:1000:1

Now all mount points are fully accessible and not owned by “Nobody/NoGroup” anymore.

If you are not able to access your home directory inside your container after the user mapping, you can change the permissions for it directly from the host. Find your lxc directory on your host and update the permissions to your current uid and gid.

$ cd /rpool/data/subvol-114-disk-0/home/
$ chown 1000:1000 -R nocin/
$ ls -l
drwxr-x---+ 5 nocin nocin 9 Mai 16 11:22 nocin
Proxmox, Software, ZFS

[Proxmox] Installing Cockpit with ZFS Manager extension

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The Cockpit ZFS Manager requires Cockpit version 201 or above. In the Debian Buster repository there’s only cockpit version 188, so you have to use the buster backports repository, which contains cockpit version 223.

# install cockpit
echo "deb http://deb.debian.org/debian buster-backports main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/buster-backport.list
apt update
apt-get -t buster-backports install cockpit
# add ZFS manager
git clone https://github.com/optimans/cockpit-zfs-manager.git
cp -r cockpit-zfs-manager/zfs /usr/share/cockpit
# start cockpit
systemctl start cockpit.service
systemctl enable cockpit.service
systemctl status cockpit.service

Now browse to https://ip-address-of-machine:9090 and login.

Proxmox, ZFS

[Proxmox] NFSv4 client saves files as “nobody” and “nogroup” on ZFS Share

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I’m running a Proxmox Cluster with PVE1 and PVE2. On PVE2 a VM is running Debian Buster, which is mounting an zfs nfs share from PVE1. Inside the VM a script is running as root saving a backup on this nfs share. If I create a file locally (Test1) on PVE1, the owner is of course root. But since a few weeks the script running inside the VM is creating all files as nobody (Test2).

# ls -all /mnt/nfs/data
drwxr-xr-x  2 root  root       4096 Jul  5 07:19 Test1
drwxr-xr-x  2 nobody nogroup   4096 Jul  5 07:21 Test2

This is because root users are mapped to different user id’s and group’s when changing files on an nfs share. But until now, this was no problom when enabling nfs on a dataset via

zfs set sharenfs=on zpool/data

because the no_root_squash was set by default. But it looks like this was a changed in ZFS on Linux 0.8.3 and the no_root_squash option isn’t set by default anymore. To enable it again use:

zfs set sharenfs='rw,no_root_squash' zpool/data

Another way is exporting the folder via /etc/exports and adding the no_root_squash option.

# sudo nano /etc/exports
/zpool/data/ *(rw,no_subtree_check,sync,insecure,no_root_squash)

Run sudo exportfs -a after editing the exports file to enable these changes immediately.

Proxmox

[Proxmox] Adding the pve-no-subscription repo

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For receiving updates on Proxmox, you have add the pve-no-subscription repo.
First, find the current pve-enterprise repo:

nano /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pve-enterprise.list

Comment out the pve-enterprise repo.

root@pve:~# cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pve-enterprise.list
#deb https://enterprise.proxmox.com/debian/pve buster pve-enterprise

To add the pve-no-subscription repo, create a new file called pve-no-subscription.list

nano /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pve-no-subscription.list

and insert the repo:

root@pve:~# cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pve-no-subscription.list 
# PVE pve-no-subscription repository provided by proxmox.com,
# NOT recommended for production use
deb https://download.proxmox.com/debian/pve buster pve-no-subscription

# security updates
deb https://security.debian.org/debian-security buster/updates main contrib
Proxmox

[Proxmox] Scrub cronjob

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Default scrub cronjob when installing Proxmox on ZFS: 

nocin@pve:~$ cat /etc/cron.d/zfsutils-linux 
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin

# Scrub the second Sunday of every month.
24 0 8-14 * * root [ $(date +\%w) -eq 0 ] && [ -x /usr/lib/zfs-linux/scrub ] && /usr/lib/zfs-linux/scrub

LXC, Proxmox, Wireguard

[Wireguard] Preparing Proxmox Host for Wireguard in LXC

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I followed this guide for using Wireguard inside LXC on Proxmox. (Also helpfull)

echo "deb https://deb.debian.org/debian/ unstable main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/unstable.list
printf 'Package: *\nPin: release a=unstable\nPin-Priority: 90\n' > /etc/apt/preferences.d/limit-unstable
apt update
apt install wireguard

But as i ran “modprobe wireguard” I just got:

modprobe: FATAL: Module wireguard not found in directory /lib/modules/5.0.15-1-pve

So I ran “dkms autoinstall”… but no success.

Error! Your kernel headers for kernel 5.0.15-1-pve cannot be found.
Please install the linux-headers-5.0.15-1-pve package,
or use the --kernelsourcedir option to tell DKMS where it's located

As I run “apt install pve-headers” it installed new pve-headers but for a different kernel:

pve-headers pve-headers-5.0 pve-headers-5.0.21-1-pve

As expected, “modprobe wireguard” still returned 

modprobe: FATAL: Module wireguard not found in directory /lib/modules/5.0.15-1-pve

So i checked my current kernel with “uname –kernel-release” and since my last reboot was about two weeks ago, it was running on 5.0.15-1-pve. So I did a reboot, checked the kernel again and now it was on 5.0.21-1-pve. So I did “dkms autoinstall” again, now with success:

Kernel preparation unnecessary for this kernel.  Skipping...

Building module:
cleaning build area...
make -j4 KERNELRELEASE=5.0.21-1-pve -C /lib/modules/5.0.21-1-pve/build M=/var/lib/dkms/wireguard/0.0.20190702/build..........
cleaning build area...

DKMS: build completed.

wireguard.ko:
Running module version sanity check.
 - Original module
   - No original module exists within this kernel
 - Installation
   - Installing to /lib/modules/5.0.21-1-pve/updates/dkms/

depmod....

DKMS: install completed.

“modprobe wireguard” now returned no error. I continued the guide with:

echo "wireguard" >> /etc/modules-load.d/modules.conf

Entered my already created Debian 10 container and followed the guide:

echo "deb https://deb.debian.org/debian/ unstable main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/unstable-wireguard.list
printf 'Package: *\nPin: release a=unstable\nPin-Priority: 90\n' > /etc/apt/preferences.d/limit-unstable
apt update
apt-get install --no-install-recommends wireguard-tools
ip link add wg0 type wireguard

Edit: To get Wireguard working, I also had to add the TUN device to the containers config, like I did for OpenVPN as well.
You’ll find the config here: /etc/pve/lxc/container_name.conf

lxc.cgroup.devices.allow: c 10:200 rwm
lxc.hook.autodev: sh -c "modprobe tun; cd ${LXC_ROOTFS_MOUNT}/dev; mkdir net; mknod net/tun c 10 200; chmod 0666 net/tun"