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Jörg Thalheim 46dfb2d090
nixos/sysctl: reduce prio of "kernel.kptr_restrict" to mkDefault
Users should be able to override this value without having to use mkForce.
2019-09-26 10:09:31 +01:00
Florian Klink 9be0327a49 nixos/systemd: install sysctl snippets
systemd provides two sysctl snippets, 50-coredump.conf and
50-default.conf.

These enable:
 - Loose reverse path filtering
 - Source route filtering
 - `fq_codel` as a packet scheduler (this helps to fight bufferbloat)

This also configures the kernel to pass coredumps to `systemd-coredump`.
These sysctl snippets can be found in `/etc/sysctl.d/50-*.conf`,
and overridden via `boot.kernel.sysctl`
(which will place the parameters in `/etc/sysctl.d/60-nixos.conf`.

Let's start using these, like other distros already do for quite some
time, and remove those duplicate `boot.kernel.sysctl` options we
previously did set.

In the case of rp_filter (which systemd would set to 2 (loose)), make
our overrides to "1" more explicit.
2019-08-18 17:54:26 +02:00
Florian Klink e5965bd489 nixos/sysctl: rename /etc/sysctl.d/nixos.conf -> 60-nixos.conf
sysctl.d(5) recommends prefixing all filenames in /etc/sysctl.d with a
two-digit number and a dash, to simplify the ordering of the files.

Some packages provide custom files, often with "50-" prefix.
To ensure user-supplied configuration takes precedence over the one
specified via `boot.kernel.sysctl`, prefix the file generated there with
"60-".
2019-08-18 17:54:26 +02:00
Daniel Schaefer 786f02f7a4 treewide: Remove usage of isNull
isNull "is deprecated; just write e == null instead" says the Nix manual
2019-04-29 14:05:50 +02:00
volth 2e979e8ceb [bot] nixos/*: remove unused arguments in lambdas 2018-07-20 20:56:59 +00:00
Joachim Fasting e6c65ecb12
tree-wide: remove uses of features.grsecurity 2017-05-14 15:08:51 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 86721a5f78
Allow attaching to non-child processes by default
The inability to run strace or gdb is the kind of
developer-unfriendliness that we're used to from OS X, let's not do it
on NixOS.

This restriction can be re-enabled by setting

  boot.kernel.sysctl."kernel.yama.ptrace_scope" = 1;

It might be nice to have a NixOS module for enabling hardened defaults.

Xref #14392.

Thanks @abbradar.
2017-03-21 18:48:35 +01:00
Anders Papitto 58cc890d2b sysctl: use literalExample in docs 2015-12-30 10:22:04 -08:00
Joachim Fasting 5cb2cee954 nixos: condition sysctl.kptr_restrict on features.grsecurity
Conditioning `sysctl.kptr_restrict` on `features.grsecurity` supports
any grsecurity enabled kernel without having to enable the grsecurity
module.
2015-03-29 00:42:58 +01:00
Michael Raskin f2e9ebbd46 Merge pull request #2283 from wizeman/u/sysctl-merge
nixos: Fix sysctl option merging
2014-06-30 09:03:33 +04:00
Eelco Dolstra 179acfb664 Allow upstream systemd units to be extended
If you define a unit, and either systemd or a package in
systemd.packages already provides that unit, then we now generate a
file /etc/systemd/system/<unit>.d/overrides.conf. This makes it
possible to use upstream units, while allowing them to be customised
from the NixOS configuration. For instance, the module nix-daemon.nix
now uses the units provided by the Nix package. And all unit
definitions that duplicated upstream systemd units are finally gone.

This makes the baseUnit option unnecessary, so I've removed it.
2014-04-17 18:52:31 +02:00
Ricardo M. Correia d8b21c2224 nixos: Fix sysctl option merging
Using pkgs.lib.mkOverride in a sysctl option would throw a bogus error.

Also, if you defined a sysctl multiple times in the same configuration,
only one of the values would be picked up, while the others were silently
discarded.

This patch should fix both issues. If you define a sysctl multiple
times at your highest defined priority level, you will get a proper
error with detailed location information.
2014-04-15 21:52:04 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 29027fd1e1 Rewrite ‘with pkgs.lib’ -> ‘with lib’
Using pkgs.lib on the spine of module evaluation is problematic
because the pkgs argument depends on the result of module
evaluation. To prevent an infinite recursion, pkgs and some of the
modules are evaluated twice, which is inefficient. Using ‘with lib’
prevents this problem.
2014-04-14 16:26:48 +02:00
Austin Seipp 172dc1336f nixos: add grsecurity module (#1875)
This module implements a significant refactoring in grsecurity
configuration for NixOS, making it far more usable by default and much
easier to configure.

 - New security.grsecurity NixOS attributes.
   - All grsec kernels supported
   - Allows default 'auto' grsec configuration, or custom config
   - Supports custom kernel options through kernelExtraConfig
   - Defaults to high-security - user must choose kernel, server/desktop
     mode, and any virtualisation software. That's all.
   - kptr_restrict is fixed under grsecurity (it's unwriteable)
 - grsecurity patch creation is now significantly abstracted
   - only need revision, version, and SHA1
   - kernel version requirements are asserted for sanity
   - built kernels can have the uname specify the exact grsec version
     for development or bug reports. Off by default (requires
     `security.grsecurity.config.verboseVersion = true;`)
 - grsecurity sysctl support
   - By default, disabled.
   - For people who enable it, NixOS deploys a 'grsec-lock' systemd
     service which runs at startup. You are expected to configure sysctl
     through NixOS like you regularly would, which will occur before the
     service is started. As a result, changing sysctl settings requires
     a reboot.
 - New default group: 'grsecurity'
   - Root is a member by default
   - GRKERNSEC_PROC_GID is implicitly set to the 'grsecurity' GID,
     making it possible to easily add users to this group for /proc
     access
 - AppArmor is now automatically enabled where it wasn't before, despite
   implying features.apparmor = true

The most trivial example of enabling grsecurity in your kernel is by
specifying:

    security.grsecurity.enable          = true;
    security.grsecurity.testing         = true;      # testing 3.13 kernel
    security.grsecurity.config.system   = "desktop"; # or "server"

This specifies absolutely no virtualisation support. In general, you
probably at least want KVM host support, which is a little more work.
So:

    security.grsecurity.enable = true;
    security.grsecurity.stable = true; # enable stable 3.2 kernel
    security.grsecurity.config = {
      system   = "server";
      priority = "security";
      virtualisationConfig   = "host";
      virtualisationSoftware = "kvm";
      hardwareVirtualisation = true;
    }

This module has primarily been tested on Hetzner EX40 & VQ7 servers
using NixOps.

Signed-off-by: Austin Seipp <aseipp@pobox.com>
2014-04-11 22:43:51 -05:00
Eelco Dolstra 2b1f212494 Disable various services when running inside a container 2013-11-26 18:19:45 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 785eaf2cea Add some primops to lib 2013-11-12 13:48:30 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 800f9c2037 Show correct position info for errors in submodules
E.g.

  The unique option `fileSystems./.device' is defined multiple times, in `/etc/nixos/configuration.nix' and `/etc/nixos/foo.nix'.

This requires passing file/value tuples to the merge functions.
2013-10-30 14:57:43 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 73f32d0375 Show precise error messages in option merge failures
For instance, if time.timeZone is defined multiple times, you now get
the error message:

  error: user-thrown exception: The unique option `time.timeZone' is defined multiple times, in `/etc/nixos/configurations/misc/eelco/x11vnc.nix' and `/etc/nixos/configuration.nix'.

while previously you got:

  error: user-thrown exception: Multiple definitions of string. Only one is allowed for this option.

and only an inspection of the stack trace gave a clue as to what
option caused the problem.
2013-10-28 22:45:57 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 5c1f8cbc70 Move all of NixOS to nixos/ in preparation of the repository merge 2013-10-10 13:28:20 +02:00
Renamed from modules/config/sysctl.nix (Browse further)