algo/docs/ROLES.md
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# Ansible Roles
## Required Roles
* **Common**
* Installs several required packages and software updates, then reboots if necessary
* Configures network interfaces, and enables packet forwarding on them
* **VPN**
* Installs [strongSwan](https://www.strongswan.org/), enables AppArmor, limits CPU and memory access, and drops user privileges
* Builds a Certificate Authority (CA) with [easy-rsa-ipsec](https://github.com/ValdikSS/easy-rsa-ipsec) and creates one client certificate per user
* Bundles the appropriate certificates into Apple mobileconfig profiles for each user
* Configures IPtables to block traffic that might pose a risk to VPN users, such as [SMB/CIFS](https://medium.com/@ValdikSS/deanonymizing-windows-users-and-capturing-microsoft-and-vpn-accounts-f7e53fe73834)
## Optional Roles
* **Security Enhancements**
* Enables [unattended-upgrades](https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AutomaticSecurityUpdates) to ensure available patches are always applied
* Modify features like core dumps, kernel parameters, and SUID binaries to limit possible attacks
* Enhances SSH with modern ciphers and seccomp, and restricts access to old or unwanted features like X11 forwarding and SFTP
* **Proxy-based Adblocking and Compression**
* Installs [Privoxy](https://www.privoxy.org/) with an ad blocking ruleset
* Installs Apache with [mod_pagespeed](http://modpagespeed.com/) as an HTTP proxy
* Constrains Privoxy and Apache with AppArmor and cgroups CPU and memory limitations
* **DNS-based Adblocking**
* Install the [dnsmasq](http://www.thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq/doc.html) local resolver with a blacklist for advertising domains
* Constrains dnsmasq with AppArmor and cgroups CPU and memory limitations
* **SSH Tunneling**
* Adds a restricted `algo` group with no shell access and limited SSH forwarding options
* Creates one limited, local account per user and an SSH public key for each