napalm-linux/CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog, and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.

Unreleased

Security

• run_command(privileged=True, stdin=...) raises ValueError while a sudo password is set. sudo -S reads the password from stdin, and a sudo that does not prompt (NOPASSWD, a cached timestamp) left it for the command, which read it as the first line of the data: netOrk wrote it into a file that way (NetOrk/netork#1029). Stage the data without privilege and have root install that file. Without a sudo password (sudo -n) or for a root login, stdin still goes to the command.
• The sudo password is no longer typed into the interactive shell (NetOrk/netork#1039). Every privileged command ran there as echo '<password>' | sudo -S -p "" <command>: bash kept it in its history, so each poll wrote the password into the login user's ~/.bash_history, and while the command ran it was in the process list for every local user. Privileged commands (_sudo, _sudo_status, and _run_privileged with a sudo password) now run on an exec channel like run_command(privileged=True): the password reaches sudo -S on stdin, there is no PTY to echo it, and the whole command runs as root in one sh -c (before, only the part up to the first ;, && or | did, so mv … && chown root:root … failed its chown). The interactive session also switches its history off before its first command ( unset HISTFILE; set +o history). History files written before this version may still hold the sudo password: remove those lines from the login user's ~/.bash_history on your hosts and consider changing the password. _sudo_status takes the exit status from the channel; it is None only when the channel closed without one.

[0.4.0] – 2026-10-08

Added

• get_virtual_ips() through napalm-device-types' VirtualIpsMixin (4.2.0): the addresses vip-manager and keepalived configuration lets float onto this host, whether or not it holds them right now (NetOrk/netork#829). The command goes on the exec channel (run_command): with its awk filter it is about 4 kB, past the line the PTY reliably takes. Root first, then without it.

[0.3.0] – 2026-10-08

Removed

• get_docker_info(), get_docker_outdated(), reconstruct_docker_run() and the _docker_bin() hook, with the image-ID helpers they used. netOrk reads and handles containers itself over the Engine API, through open_container_engine() (NetOrk/netork#765), and no longer calls them. run_device_action("fix_docker_permissions") stays: letting the login user use Docker is an OS action.

[0.2.0] – 2026-10-07

Added

• run_command() and open_stream(), the public command channel from napalm-device-types 2.6.0: an exec channel on the existing SSH transport, so no PTY, separate stderr and a real exit code. privileged=True runs as root directly, through sudo -S with the password on stdin (never on the command line), or through sudo -n, which fails instead of prompting.
• ContainerEngineMixin: container_engines() and open_container_engine(), whose open_api() streams the Docker Engine API over docker system dial-stdio (NetOrk/netork#765). The existing Docker methods are unchanged.

Changed

• Requires napalm-device-types >= 2.6.0.

0.1.0 – 2026-05-29

Added

• Initial release
• LinuxDriver inheriting from napalm_device_types.OSDriver
• SSH transport via Netmiko linux device type
• Auto-detection of package manager: apt, dnf, yum, apk, pacman
• Standard NAPALM methods: get_facts(), get_interfaces(), get_interfaces_ip(), get_arp_table(), get_config(), ping()
• OS-specific methods: get_packages(), get_pending_updates(), apply_updates(), get_services(), get_users(), get_processes(), get_cron_jobs()
• apply_updates() validates all package names against ^[a-zA-Z0-9_\-\+\.]+$ to prevent shell injection before passing them to the package manager
• SysV fallback for get_services() on non-systemd systems
• Unit tests with mocked SSH connections