ssh_filter_btrbk - Man Page

ssh_filter_btrbk.sh [-s|--source] [-t|--target] [-d|--delete]
    [-i|--info] [--snapshot] [--send] [--receive]
    [-p|--restrict-path <path>] [-l|--log] [--sudo]

ssh_filter_btrbk.sh restricts SSH commands to commands used by btrbk. It examines the SSH_ORIGINAL_COMMAND environment variable (set by sshd) and executes it only if it contains commands used by btrbk.

The accepted commands are specified by the "--source", "--target", "--delete" and "--info" options.

The following commands are always allowed:

• "btrfs subvolume show" (not affected by "--restrict-path")
• "btrfs subvolume list" (not affected by "--restrict-path")
• "readlink"
• "test -d" (only if "compat busybox" configuration option is set)
• "cat /proc/self/mountinfo"
• pipes through "gzip", "pigz", "bzip2", "pbzip2", "bzip3", "xz", "lzop", "lz4", "zstd" (stream_compress)
• pipes through "mbuffer" (stream_buffer, rate_limit)

Example line in /root/.ssh/authorized_keys on a backup target host:

command="ssh_filter_btrbk.sh --target --delete --restrict-path /mnt/btr_backup",restrict ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1...hwumXFRQBL btrbk@example.org

-s,  --source

Allow commands for backup source: "btrfs subvolume snapshot", "btrfs send". Equivalent to "--snapshot --send".

-t,  --target

Allow commands for backup and archive target: "btrfs receive", "mkdir".

-d,  --delete

Allow commands for subvolume deletion: "btrfs subvolume delete". This is used for backup source if snapshot_preserve_daily is not set to “all”, and for backup targets if target_preserve_daily is not set to “all”.

-i,  --info

Allow informative commands: "btrfs subvolume find-new", "btrfs filesystem usage". This is used by btrbk info and diff commands.

--snapshot

Allow btrfs snapshot command: "btrfs subvolume snapshot".

--send

Allow btrfs send command: "btrfs send".

--receive

Allow btrfs receive command: "btrfs receive".

-p,  --restrict-path <path>

Restrict commands to <path>. Note that "btrfs subvolume show", "btrfs subvolume list" are NOT affected by this option.

It is not possible to restrict commands to exact subvolume names, as btrfs-receive(8) takes a <path> as argument (directory, not including the subvolume file name to be created, this is encoded in the send-stream).

-l,  --log

Log ACCEPT and REJECT messages to the system log.

--sudo

Allow btrfs commands to be called via sudo. Enable this if you have "backend btrfs-progs-sudo" in your btrbk configuration file.

Please refer to the btrbk project page https://digint.ch/btrbk/ for further details.

btrbk(1), btrbk.conf(5), btrfs(8)

Axel Burri axel@tty0.ch

configuration.nix(5).