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Updated Security Overview (markdown)

Nick Sweeting
2019-04-16 20:49:58 -04:00
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@@ -23,13 +23,8 @@ If you want ArchiveBox to be less noisy and avoid leaking any URLs to 3rd-party
- `https://web.archive.org/save/{url}` when [`SUBMIT_ARCHIVE_DOT_ORG`](https://github.com/pirate/ArchiveBox/wiki/Configuration#submit_archive_dot_org) is `True`, full URLs are submitted to the Wayback Machine for archiving, but no cookies or content from the local authenticated archive are shared
- `https://www.google.com/s2/favicons?domain={domain}` when [`FETCH_FAVICON`](https://github.com/pirate/ArchiveBox/wiki/Configuration#fetch_favicon) is `True`, the domains for each link are shared in order to get the favicon, but not the full URL
## Output Folder
### Do not run as root
### Permissions
What are the permissions on the archive folder? Limit access to the fewest possible users by checking folder ownership and setting [`OUTPUT_PERMISSIONS`](https://github.com/pirate/ArchiveBox/wiki/Configuration#OUTPUT_PERMISSIONS) accordingly.
#### Do not run as root
Do not run ArchiveBox as root for a number of reasons:
- Chrome will execute as root and fail to run because Chrome sandboxing is not supported as root for good reason (do not set `CHROME_SANDBOX=False` just to bypass that error!)
- All dependencies will be run as root, if any of them have a vulnerability that's exploited by sites you're archiving you're opening yourself up to full system compromise
@@ -45,6 +40,12 @@ chown -R archivebox:archivebox /home/archivebox
sudo -u archivebox ./archive ...
```
## Output Folder
### Permissions
What are the permissions on the archive folder? Limit access to the fewest possible users by checking folder ownership and setting [`OUTPUT_PERMISSIONS`](https://github.com/pirate/ArchiveBox/wiki/Configuration#OUTPUT_PERMISSIONS) accordingly.
### Filesystem
How much are you planning to archive? Only a few bookmarked articles, or thousands of pages of browsing history a day? If it's only 1-50 pages a day, you can probably just stick it in a normal folder on your hard drive, but if you want to go over 100 pages a day, you will likely want to put your archive on a compressed/deduplicated/encrypted disk image or filesystem like ZFS.