Since #246772, cross compiled NixOS is broken because the DateTime perl
package that was used in the update-users-groups.pl script depends on
Testutf8 which does not cross compile (see #198548).
This PR drops the DateTime dependency in favour of TimePiece, which has
less dependencies and whose closure does cross compile.
This change enables _FILE variants for all secrets in Healthchecks
configuration so they can be read from a file and not stored in
/nix/store.
In particular, it adds support for these secrets:
DB_PASSWORD, DISCORD_CLIENT_SECRET, EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD,
LINENOTIFY_CLIENT_SECRET, MATRIX_ACCESS_TOKEN, PD_APP_ID,
PUSHBULLET_CLIENT_SECRET, PUSHOVER_API_TOKEN, S3_SECRET_KEY, SECRET_KEY,
SLACK_CLIENT_SECRET, TELEGRAM_TOKEN, TRELLO_APP_KEY, and TWILIO_AUTH.
Previously, if someone changed DB to postgres or mysql and forgot to
change DB_NAME, services.healthchecks would have used the hardcoded path
that was meant for the sqlite as DB_NAME.
This change introduces DB and DB_NAME options in
services.healthchecks.settings.
Underneath, systemd-networkd’s reload is just `networkctl reload`. Per
`man networkctl`, calling `reload` is expected to fully handle new,
modified, and removed .network files, but it only handles *new* .netdev
files. For simplicity, assume .network -> reload and .netdev -> restart.
It’s desirable to perform reload instead of restart, as restart has the
potential to bring down interfaces, resulting in a loss of network
connectivity.
Just like with system-wide tmpfiles, call `systemd-tmpfiles --create
--remove` for users during activation. This fixes an issue where new
entries in a user's tmpfiles are not reflected after activation, only at
boot when the user service systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service runs or only
after running systemd-tmpfiles manually.
This allows for other unmanaged tables to co-exist peacefully on the os,
by having the nixos-managed tables be re-created atomically and the other
tables will simply be left untouched.
Given that we are no longer inspecting the target of the /proc/self/exe
symlink, stop asserting that it has any properties. Remove the plumbing
for wrappersDir, which is no longer used.
Asserting that the binary is located in the specific place is no longer
necessary, because we don't rely on that location being writable only by
privileged entities (we used to rely on that when assuming that
readlink(/proc/self/exe) will continue to point at us and when assuming
that the `.real` file can be trusted).
Assertions about lack of write bits on the file were
IMO meaningless since inception: ignoring the Linux's refusal to honor
S[UG]ID bits on files-writeable-by-others, if someone could have
modified the wrapper in a way that preserved the capability or S?ID
bits, they could just remove this check.
Assertions about effective UID were IMO just harmful: if we were
executed without elevation, the caller would expect the result that
would cause in a wrapperless distro: the targets gets executed without
elevation. Due to lack of elevation, that cannot be used to abuse
privileges that the elevation would give.
This change partially fixes#98863 for S[UG]ID wrappers. The issue for
capability wrappers remains.
/proc/self/exe is a "fake" symlink. When it's opened, it always opens
the actual file that was execve()d in this process, even if the file was
deleted or renamed; if the file is no longer accessible from the current
chroot/mount namespace it will at the very worst fail and never open the
wrong file. Thus, we can make a much simpler argument that we're reading
capabilities off the correct file after this change (and that argument
doesn't rely on things such as protected_hardlinks being enabled, or no
users being able to write to /run/wrappers, or the verification that the
path readlink returns starts with /run/wrappers/).
Before this change it was crucial that nonprivileged users are unable to
create hardlinks to SUID wrappers, lest they be able to provide a
different `.real` file alongside. That was ensured by not providing a
location writable to them in the /run/wrappers tmpfs, (unless
disabled) by the fs.protected_hardlinks=1 sysctl, and by the explicit
own-path check in the wrapper. After this change, ensuring
that property is no longer important, and the check is most likely
redundant.
The simplification of expectations of the wrapper will make it
easier to remove some of the assertions in the wrapper (which currently
cause the wrapper to fail in no_new_privs environments, instead of
executing the target with non-elevated privileges).
Note that wrappers had to be copied (not symlinked) into /run/wrappers
due to the SUID/capability bits, and they couldn't be hard/softlinks of
each other due to those bits potentially differing. Thus, this change
doesn't increase the amount of memory used by /run/wrappers.
This change removes part of the test that is obsoleted by the removal of
`.real` files.
This change includes some stuff (e.g. reading of the `.real` file,
execution of the wrapper's target) that belongs to the apparmor policy
of the wrapper. This necessitates making them distinct for each wrapper.
The main reason for this change is as a preparation for making each
wrapper be a distinct binary.
with a config like this :
```
services.tts = {
servers = {
english = {
enable = true;
port = 5300;
model = "tts_models/en/ljspeech/vits"
};
};
};
```
You the WAVs tts creates contain an error message which will be read to
you before the text you typed in will be read to you.
This patch fixes that.
dwm is not in Java's internal list of non-reparrenting
window managers. Running Java GUI programs without this
variable on window managers (eg. jd-gui) causes the window
to be blank.
Before this commit there was no way to access (boot into) specialisation of previous generations from grub,even tho they are there.
This commit will add grub submenu for each generation if the generation has any specialisation.
Which will allow you to boot into them.
Co-authored-by: Samuel Dionne-Riel <samuel@dionne-riel.com>
We should sometimes restart the units rather than reloading them so the
changes are actually applied. / and /nix are explicitly excluded because
there was some very old issue where these were unmounted. I don't think
this will affect many people since most people use fstab mounts instead
but I plan to adapt this behavior for fstab mounts as well in the future
(once I wrote a test for the fstab thingies).
The next commit is going to add an option which takes a list of
packages. So the example must be converted to make it documentable.
This will also allow adding comments, to explain why some options are
used.
Given that we are no longer inspecting the target of the /proc/self/exe
symlink, stop asserting that it has any properties. Remove the plumbing
for wrappersDir, which is no longer used.
Asserting that the binary is located in the specific place is no longer
necessary, because we don't rely on that location being writable only by
privileged entities (we used to rely on that when assuming that
readlink(/proc/self/exe) will continue to point at us and when assuming
that the `.real` file can be trusted).
Assertions about lack of write bits on the file were
IMO meaningless since inception: ignoring the Linux's refusal to honor
S[UG]ID bits on files-writeable-by-others, if someone could have
modified the wrapper in a way that preserved the capability or S?ID
bits, they could just remove this check.
Assertions about effective UID were IMO just harmful: if we were
executed without elevation, the caller would expect the result that
would cause in a wrapperless distro: the targets gets executed without
elevation. Due to lack of elevation, that cannot be used to abuse
privileges that the elevation would give.
This change partially fixes#98863 for S[UG]ID wrappers. The issue for
capability wrappers remains.
/proc/self/exe is a "fake" symlink. When it's opened, it always opens
the actual file that was execve()d in this process, even if the file was
deleted or renamed; if the file is no longer accessible from the current
chroot/mount namespace it will at the very worst fail and never open the
wrong file. Thus, we can make a much simpler argument that we're reading
capabilities off the correct file after this change (and that argument
doesn't rely on things such as protected_hardlinks being enabled, or no
users being able to write to /run/wrappers, or the verification that the
path readlink returns starts with /run/wrappers/).
Before this change it was crucial that nonprivileged users are unable to
create hardlinks to SUID wrappers, lest they be able to provide a
different `.real` file alongside. That was ensured by not providing a
location writable to them in the /run/wrappers tmpfs, (unless
disabled) by the fs.protected_hardlinks=1 sysctl, and by the explicit
own-path check in the wrapper. After this change, ensuring
that property is no longer important, and the check is most likely
redundant.
The simplification of expectations of the wrapper will make it
easier to remove some of the assertions in the wrapper (which currently
cause the wrapper to fail in no_new_privs environments, instead of
executing the target with non-elevated privileges).
Note that wrappers had to be copied (not symlinked) into /run/wrappers
due to the SUID/capability bits, and they couldn't be hard/softlinks of
each other due to those bits potentially differing. Thus, this change
doesn't increase the amount of memory used by /run/wrappers.
We set[1] ASPELL_CONF to the last nix profile containing lib/aspell in
2013. In 2017, aspell is patched[2] to search NIX_PROFILES, which
makes [1] not needed any more.
Deleting it is also agreed in this discussion[3].
[1]: 0192c02720
[2]: ba4cefe4ae
[3]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/30234
exiftool is written in Perl which appears to call `chown` as part of startup. This is blocked by the `@privileged` system call group. This causes a failure when changing image orientation.
Fixes: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/249120
remove `with lib;`
profiles option now accepts packages in addition to paths.
profiles option is no longer internal.
cfgDir definition has been inlined.
pulled GIO_EXTRA_MODULES inside mkif.
removed pointless comments with section headings.
defined profiles are now turned into package, allowing to simplify the db update logic.
This change also generates the invidious config by putting JSON
snippets into a bash array and then using jq to merge them all into
a single configuration where later elements override previous
elements.
- Move contents of README.md from
nixos/modules/installer/tools/manpages/ to
nixos/doc/manual/contributing-to-this-manual.chapter.md.
- Don't mention DocBook as its obsolete and too specific.
- Rename derivation attribute name of configuration.nix(5) manual page,
both on the `contributing-to-this-manual.chapter.md`, and in other
places.
Since each such `nixos-*` tool has it's own derivation, exposed in pkgs,
There is no point in separating the manuals from the packages. If
someone wishes to have the tools without the manuals, they can use
meta.outputsToInstall to disable the installation of the manpages of
these packages. This Fixes#244450.
adwaita-qt tries valiantly to ensure a visual consistency
but unfortunately, it often falls into an uncanny valley instead.
Let’s make it opt-in again for more vanilla default experience.
Related: https://pagure.io/fedora-workstation/issue/351
Since Linux 5.7 it's possible to set `SO_BINDTODEVICE` via `setsockopt(2)`
as unprivileged user if this operation doesn't imply escaping a VRF
interface[1].
Dropping the wrapper is actually desirable because `captive-browser`
itself doesn't drop capabilities and as a result, the capabilities are
passed on to `chromium` itself[2].
For older kernels, this is still necessary, hence the wrapper will only
be added nowadays if the kernel is older than 5.7.
[1] c427bfec18
[2] 08450562e5/bind_device_linux.go (L11-L14)
and because our setcap wrapper makes all capabilities
inheritable.
In user namespaces where an unprivileged user is mapped as root and root
is unmapped, setuid bits have no effect. However setuid root
executables like mount are still usable *in the namespace* as the user
already has the required privileges. This commit detects the situation
where the wrapper gained no privileges that the parent process did not
already have and in this case does less sanity checking. In short there
is no need to be picky since the parent already can execute the foo.real
executable themselves.
Details:
man 7 user_namespaces:
Set-user-ID and set-group-ID programs
When a process inside a user namespace executes a set-user-ID
(set-group-ID) program, the process's effective user (group) ID
inside the namespace is changed to whatever value is mapped for
the user (group) ID of the file. However, if either the user or
the group ID of the file has no mapping inside the namespace, the
set-user-ID (set-group-ID) bit is silently ignored: the new
program is executed, but the process's effective user (group) ID
is left unchanged. (This mirrors the semantics of executing a
set-user-ID or set-group-ID program that resides on a filesystem
that was mounted with the MS_NOSUID flag, as described in
mount(2).)
The effect of the setuid bit is that the real user id is preserved and
the effective and set user ids are changed to the owner of the wrapper.
We detect that no privilege was gained by checking that euid == suid
== ruid. In this case we stop checking that euid == owner of the
wrapper file.
As a reminder here are the values of euid, ruid, suid, stat.st_uid and
stat.st_mode & S_ISUID in various cases when running a setuid 42 executable as user 1000:
Normal case:
ruid=1000 euid=42 suid=42
setuid=2048, st_uid=42
nosuid mount:
ruid=1000 euid=1000 suid=1000
setuid=2048, st_uid=42
inside unshare -rm:
ruid=0 euid=0 suid=0
setuid=2048, st_uid=65534
inside unshare -rm, on a suid mount:
ruid=0 euid=0 suid=0
setuid=2048, st_uid=65534
Removing a network from the joinNetworks list does not make the machine leave the network which is confusing.
This behavior is now clarified via the options description
For non-interactive installation it's quite handy to be able to nix copy additional dependencies to the system.
While this is possible for the root user, we cannot easily ssh into it, as we don't allow root login with a password.
By making nixos a trusted user, we can do "passwd && sudo systemctl start sshd" and than run nixos-anywhere
This option only has an effect on the initial setup of Nextcloud and
changes later won't have any effect.
Same issue as with `adminpassFile` - it's only passed to the installer
command - but even worse because the username is frequently used as
unique ID in the database, so there's no trivial way to change it, even
imperatively.
