How to build your own Bitwarden_rs jail

Ghost231

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I have used https://www.ixsystems.com/community...in-a-jail-for-local-useage.73583/#post-510078 as a reference.
But wanted to avoid ruby and rubywarden and also wanted to use https://github.com/dani-garcia/bitwarden_rs
The setup is for local lan + vpn access, do not open it to the internet.

I have tested it with
Using the server with native bitwarden apps eg. iOS/firefox. With this setup nothing goes to their servers.

The post follows the building process described on https://github.com/dani-garcia/bitwarden_rs/wiki/Building-binary

Make sure to:
* Fill in Certificate details, or not (just enter through)
* Letsencrypt if dns is working on your local host

ssh into your freenas host

Code:
# create your jai as root and login
sudo iocage create -n bitwarden -r 11.2-RELEASE vnet="on" boot="on" dhcp="on" bpf="yes"
sudo iocage console bitwarden


Code:
# install runtime and build dependencies, this will ask some questions, jus say Y
pkg install  sqlite3 nginx git sudo vim-tiny bash node npm python27-2.7.17_1


Code:
# some npm dependency will need to have python2.7 and will fail with python3
cd /usr/local/bin/
# set the symlink 
ln -s /usr/local/bin/python2.7 python
cd - 


Code:
# Add new bitwardenrs user to the jail
echo "Set the user below to: bitwardenrs"
echo "Enter every line, no need for other configs, only your password
echo
adduser -s bash


Code:
# allow sudo, we will use it later
visudo
# ADD
bitwardenrs ALL=(ALL) ALL

# change to the new user to build and execute our service
su bitwardenrs
cd 
id
# should look like: uid=1001(bitwardenrs) gid=1001(bitwardenrs) groups=1001(bitwardenrs)



Code:
# install latest rust version, pkg version is outdated and can't build bitwarden_rs
curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh
# include the rust env variables
source $HOME/.cargo/env


In this sample I used my own ca but there is an other solution with LetsEncrypt https://wiki.freebsd.org/BernardSpil/LetsEncrypt
Code:
mkdir CA
cd CA

# generate the CA key
openssl genrsa -out server_rootCA.key 4096

# create certificate request
openssl req -x509 -new -nodes -key server_rootCA.key -sha256 -days 3650 -out server_rootCA.pem

# discover the default interface and its ip address (will only work with internet access)
export DEFAULT_INTERFACE=$(route get 1.1.1.1 | grep interface | cut -d \  -f 4)
export DEFAULT_IP=$(ifconfig $DEFAULT_INTERFACE | grep 'inet' | awk -F ' ' '{ print $2 }')

# construct the CA config file
cat << EOF > server_rootCA.csr.cnf
[req]
default_bits = 4096
prompt = no
default_md = sha256
distinguished_name = dn

[dn]
C=Some
ST=Some
L=Some
O=Some
OU=local_RootCA
emailAddress=.
CN = ${DEFAULT_IP}
EOF

# create the v3 extension config
cat << EOF > v3.ext
authorityKeyIdentifier=keyid,issuer
basicConstraints=CA:FALSE
keyUsage = digitalSignature, nonRepudiation, keyEncipherment, dataEncipherment
subjectAltName = @alt_names

[alt_names]
IP = ${DEFAULT_IP}
EOF

# create the nginx server key
openssl req -new -sha256 -nodes -out server.csr -newkey rsa:4096 -keyout server.key -config <( cat server_rootCA.csr.cnf )
# create the nginx server certificate
openssl x509 -req -in server.csr -CA server_rootCA.pem -CAkey server_rootCA.key -CAcreateserial -out server.crt -days 3650 -sha256 -extfile v3.ext


Code:
# copy private key
sudo cp  server.key /usr/local/etc/nginx/cert.key
# copy server.crt
sudo cp server.crt /usr/local/etc/nginx/cert.crt


Code:
# got back to the users home
cd ..
echo

# and finnaly checkout the latest bitwarden_rs release 
git clone https://github.com/dani-garcia/bitwarden_rs/
cd bitwarden_rs/
git checkout "$(git tag --sort=v:refname | tail -n1)"

# and build it with sqlite support
cargo build --features sqlite --release
cargo install diesel_cli --no-default-features --features sqlite-bundled
cd ..


If you need web-vault, we will build it here
Code:
# WEB-VAULT
# clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/bitwarden/web.git web-vault
cd web-vault
# switch to the latest tag, is not working here, dani-garcia/bw_web_builds lacks v2.12.0 patch
# export WEB_VERSION="$(git tag --sort=v:refname | tail -n1)"
# lets use the last working version
export WEB_VERSION=v2.11.0
git checkout ${WEB_VERSION}

# download and apply the bitwarden_rs patch
curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dani-garcia/bw_web_builds/master/patches/${WEB_VERSION}.patch >${WEB_VERSION}.patch
git apply ${WEB_VERSION}.patch -v


Install dependencies and fix some issues.
Code:
# there is no native freebsd version from node-sass 4.11, lets bump it to 4.12.0
cat package.json |sed -e 's/"node-sass": "^4.11.0",/"node-sass": "^4.12.0",/' | tee package.json

# download submodules
npm run sub:init
# manually install angular/compiler-cli
npm i @angular/compiler-cli

# install all the other dependencies 
npm install

# sweetalert will fail with the latest angular2 so fix it
# https://github.com/t4t5/sweetalert/issues/738
# PATCH sweetalert.d.ts ....
cat <<EOF >node_modules/sweetalert/typings/sweetalert.d.ts
import swal, { SweetAlert } from "./core";

export default swal;
export as namespace swal;
EOF


Finally build the web-vault
Code:
npm run dist


At this point we have every componets and will have to put them together
Code:
cd
# copy bitwarden_rs dist
cp -r ~/bitwarden_rs/target/release bitwarden_rs_dist
cd bitwarden_rs_dist
# and copy the web-vault files
cp -r ../web-vault/build web-vault


Let's setup our nginx fronted server.
Code:
su # be root
bash

# create nginx.conf 
cat << EOF >/usr/local/etc/nginx/nginx.conf
worker_processes  1;

events {
    worker_connections  1024;
}

http {
    include       mime.types;
    default_type  application/octet-stream;
    sendfile        on;
    keepalive_timeout  65;

server {
    listen 80;
    return 301 https://\$host$request_uri;
}

server {

    listen 443;
    server_name localhost;

    ssl_certificate           /usr/local/etc/nginx/cert.crt;
    ssl_certificate_key       /usr/local/etc/nginx/cert.key;

    ssl on;
    ssl_session_cache  builtin:1000  shared:SSL:10m;
    ssl_protocols  TLSv1 TLSv1.1 TLSv1.2;
    ssl_ciphers HIGH:!aNULL:!eNULL:!EXPORT:!CAMELLIA:!DES:!MD5:!PSK:!RC4;
    ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on;

    access_log            /var/log/nginx/bitwarden_rs_web_vault.log;

    location / {
      proxy_set_header        Host \$host;
      proxy_set_header        X-Real-IP \$remote_addr;
      proxy_set_header        X-Forwarded-For \$proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
      proxy_set_header        X-Forwarded-Proto \$scheme;

      proxy_pass          http://localhost:8000;
      proxy_read_timeout  90;

      proxy_redirect      http://localhost:8000 https://localhost;
    }
  }
}
EOF

# enable and start nginx 
sysrc nginx_enable="YES"
service nginx start


Create the bitwardenrs init script
Code:
mkdir -p /usr/local/etc/rc.conf.d/
# limit the rocket server only to localhost 
echo "ROCKET_ADDRESS=127.0.0.1" >/usr/local/etc/rc.conf.d/bitwardenrs

# 
cat <<EOF > /usr/local/etc/rc.d/bitwardenrs
#!/bin/sh

# PROVIDE: bitwardenrs
# REQUIRE: LOGIN DAEMON NETWORKING
# KEYWORD: jail rust

# Enable this script by adding:
# bitwardenrs_enable="YES"
# ... to /etc/rc.conf

. /etc/rc.subr

name="bitwardenrs"
rcvar="bitwardenrs_enable"
bitwardenrs_chdir=/home/bitwardenrs/bitwarden_rs_dist
# This is the tool init launches
command="/usr/sbin/daemon"

pidfile="/var/run/\${name}.pid"

# This is the tool daemon launches
task="./bitwarden_rs"
procname="/bin/bash"

command_args="-u bitwardenrs -p \${pidfile} \${task}"

load_rc_config $name
run_rc_command "\$1"
EOF

sudo sysrc bitwardenrs_enable="YES"
sudo chmod +x /usr/local/etc/rc.d/bitwardenrs
sudo service bitwardenrs start


If you made it here, you will have a working self singed cerificate "protected" web-vault with a working bitwarden_rs backend.
But because its a self signed cert you will have to import your CA cert into every client.
 

millst

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Thanks for the write-up. Wish you had done it sooner...might have saved me some time :)
 

adrianwi

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Thanks for the guide. I might give it a try at some point, but I've recently installed Bitwarden via a Docker container(s) in a bhyve VM. If you already have Docker up and running, getting Bitwarden working is surprisingly simple!
 

Ghost231

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Thanks for the guide. I might give it a try at some point, but I've recently installed Bitwarden via a Docker container(s) in a bhyve VM. If you already have Docker up and running, getting Bitwarden working is surprisingly simple!

Yes, if docker works then its easier, but you added +1 vm layer as well.
I had mixed experience with rancher on freenas but mostly bad, that's why I did it via jail.
 

Leny

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Thank you, it works great.
How would you configure bitwarden_rs out of the default behavior properly ?
It doesn't create the config.json anywhere and I am having a hard time adding the env variables to be taken into account.
 

ornias

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Thank you, it works great.
How would you configure bitwarden_rs out of the default behavior properly ?
It doesn't create the config.json anywhere and I am having a hard time adding the env variables to be taken into account.
You can create a file `/usr/local/etc/rc/conf.d/bitwardenrs`
inside you can enter some exports:

Code:
export WEB_VAULT_ENABLED="true"
export SIGNUPS_ALLOWED="true"

 

Leny

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Thanks ornias, sadly I still can't get it to work, trying to disable signups. You got /usr/local/etc/rc/conf.d/bitwardenrs to be taken into account after following Ghost231 process?
 

ornias

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Thanks ornias, sadly I still can't get it to work, trying to disable signups. You got /usr/local/etc/rc/conf.d/bitwardenrs to be taken into account after following Ghost231 process?
Yes and No....
I did use a mix of my own work (before @Ghost231, not posted publicly) and the work by @Ghost231.
But in general my solution worked just fine.

However: If you enter the admin page, these settings DO get overruled, as you can see in my example, I only tried to add the absolute minimum as an env. variable and the rest is added later using the admin gui.

 

NC_Sketchy

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Hey, @Ghost231
I decided to give your guide a go after the latest homeassistant update broke my bitwarden plugin on my raspberry pi.

I followed your guide to the letter with three exceptions
1. When installing python it could not find that specific package, so i installed python27 instead of python27-2.7.17_1
2. I switched to a static IP instead of DHCP (also tried in NAT mode with 443 mapped to 8443 and 8000 to 8000)
3. I'm using the 11.3-RELEASE

I'm getting broken pipe upstream errors. More specifically:

If I access the web vault after starting the jail, i get the login screen and am able to login. Some icons for entries are loaded, but most are blank. After refreshing the page, I get 502 Bad Gateway.
The firefox plugin loads the passwords, but if I go to add/edit an entry, it fails.

I notice the issues match up with the bitwardenrs process terminating in the jail. If i do a service bitwardenrs start, it comes up normally and works without issue until the next restart of the jail (including adding/editing items, uploading my previous vault).

Practically speaking its a minor inconvenience since its a persona setup and I'm going to see if I can just create a script or service that will automatically start up bitwardenrs if it is stopped.

The nginx logs only show me the broken pipe upstream, which I believe is caused by the bitwardenrs process exiting. I'm not able to figure out what type of logging I can set up for bitwardenrs itself. Any thoughts?
 

ornias

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I run it already and Jailman had/has supported it for months.
There was really no magic too it. So haven't tried this port.
 

rdvanbuuren

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First of all, thank you for this great tutorial!

I ran into one minor problem (which caused me some frustration to get fixed).
gyp verb check python checking for Python executable "/usr/local/bin/python3.7" in the PATH
gyp verb `which` succeeded /usr/local/bin/python3.7 /usr/local/bin/python3.7
gyp ERR! configure error
gyp ERR! stack Error: Command failed: /usr/local/bin/python3.7 -c import sys; print "%s.%s.%s" % sys.version_info[:3];
gyp ERR! stack File "<string>", line 1
gyp ERR! stack import sys; print "%s.%s.%s" % sys.version_info[:3];
gyp ERR! stack ^
gyp ERR! stack SyntaxError: invalid syntax
gyp ERR! stack
gyp ERR! stack at ChildProcess.exithandler (node:child_process:333:12)
gyp ERR! stack at ChildProcess.emit (node:events:376:20)
gyp ERR! stack at maybeClose (node:internal/child_process:1063:16)
gyp ERR! stack at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (node:internal/child_process:295:5)
gyp ERR! System FreeBSD 12.2-RELEASE-p2
gyp ERR! command "/usr/local/bin/node" "/usr/home/bitwardenrs/web-vault/node_modules/node-sass/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js" "rebuild" "--verbose" "--libsass_ext=" "--libsass_cflags=" "--libsass_ldflags=" "--libsass_library="
gyp ERR! cwd /usr/home/bitwardenrs/web-vault/node_modules/node-sass
gyp ERR! node -v v15.5.1
gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v3.8.0
gyp ERR! not ok

So, node-sass has a dependency to node-gyp@3.8.0, which can't compile on Python 3. Doing the above steps to set Python with a symbolic link didn't fix the problem for me. What I had to do was run the following command to have the correct version: npm config set python /usr/local/bin/python2.7 or npm config set python /usr/local/bin/python if you set the symbolic link.

Another problem I got was that the data folder was missing. I just created that folder under /home/bitwardenrs/bitwarden_rs_dist and I was able to start the service.
 
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agmotol

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Simple install Bitwarden in Jail

1. Create jail and login
iocage create -n bitwarden -r 11.2-RELEASE vnet="on" boot="on" dhcp="on" bpf="yes"
iocage console bitwarden

2. Install bitwarden_rs
pkg update -y
pkg install nano -y
pkg install -y bitwarden_rs
service bitwarden_rs enable
service bitwarden_rs start

4. Chek ip and port:
sockstat | grep bitwarden
Let’s try accessing the site: IP:PORT

---
Setup bitwarden_rs environment:
Copy /usr/local/etc/rc.conf.d/bitwarden_rs.sample to /usr/local/etc/rc.conf.d/bitwarden_rs
cd /usr/local/etc/rc.conf.d/
cp bitwarden_rs.sample bitwarden_rs
Adapt /usr/local/etc/rc.conf.d/bitwarden_rs to your needs.
Change ip and port and more
nano bitwarden_rs
Control+X
service bitwarden_rs restart
 

adrianwi

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I'd stuck with my Docker install, which works and updates perfectly, but thought I'd try firing up a jail based on this 'simple install'

It might well be running, but I guess there's a bit more to it if I want the web-vault working?
 

agmotol

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Web GUI works fine for instructions after 4 points. And you don't need any additional settings. But I recommend making them, they are simple through the web admin interface (192.168. *. * / Admin) after activation of the admin panel.
 

adrianwi

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Yes, gave it another go and manage to get it working fine! Thanks
 

gt2416

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Anyone have a working caddy file for this ? Im unable to login on the Web ui cause it says I need https enabled, with caddy as my reverse proxy I get error 502. Installed using pkg. Relevant caddy file is :

reverse_proxy /* http://localip:4567 {
header_up Host {http.request.host}
header_up X-Real-IP {http.request.remote}
header_up X-Forwarded-For {http.request.remote}
header_up X-Forwarded-Port {http.request.port}
header_up X-Forwarded-Proto {http.request.scheme}
}
 

danb35

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Anyone have a working caddy file for this ?
Quite simple:
Code:
bwrs.mydomain {

    encode gzip
    reverse_proxy * http://localhost:4567

}
 

gt2416

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Thanks, silly me I had another service running on the same ip.
 

agmotol

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bitwarden_rs rename to vaultwarden

Note to former bitwarden_rs user to update from bitwarden_rs to vaulwarden :
Stop and disable bitwarden_rs service
Copy /usr/local/etc/rc.conf.d/bitwarden_rs to /usr/local/etc/rc.conf.d/vaultwarden
Copy /usr/local/www/bitwarden_rs/data to /usr/local/www/vaultwarden/data
Enable and start vaultwarden service

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Setup vaultwarden environment:
Copy /usr/local/etc/rc.conf.d/vaultwarden.sample to /usr/local/etc/rc.conf.d/vaultwarden
Adapt /usr/local/etc/rc.conf.d/vaultwarden to your needs.
Enable and start vaultwarden service
 
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