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Joachim Fasting 984d9ebb56
hidepid: polkit and systemd-logind compatibility
`systemd.hideProcessInformation = true`, would break interactions
requiring polkit arbitration such as initating poweroff/reboot as a
normal user; the polkit daemon cannot be expected to make decisions
about processes that don't exist as far as it is concerned.

systemd-logind lacks the `sys_ptrace` capability and so needs to be part
of the designated proc gid, even though it runs as root.

Fixes https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/20948
2016-12-07 01:12:05 +01:00
Joachim Fasting 527b3dc1df
hidepid module: detailed description to external doc 2016-09-15 15:36:03 +02:00
Nikolay Amiantov 4499a505ed hidepid service: use new boot.specialFileSystems 2016-08-31 17:16:41 +03:00
Nikolay Amiantov 6efcfe03ae nixos filesystems: unify early filesystems handling
A new internal config option `fileSystems.<name>.early` is added to indicate
that the filesystem needs to be loaded very early (i.e. in initrd). They are
transformed to a shell script in `system.build.earlyMountScript` with calls to
an undefined `specialMount` function, which is expected to be caller-specific.
This option is used by stage-1, stage-2 and activation script to set up and
remount those filesystems.  Options for them are updated according to systemd
defaults.
2016-08-27 13:38:20 +03:00
Joachim Fasting cef2814a4f nixos: add optional process information hiding
This module adds an option `security.hideProcessInformation` that, when
enabled, restricts access to process information such as command-line
arguments to the process owner.  The module adds a static group "proc"
whose members are exempt from process information hiding.

Ideally, this feature would be implemented by simply adding the
appropriate mount options to `fileSystems."/proc".fsOptions`, but this
was found to not work in vmtests. To ensure that process information
hiding is enforced, we use a systemd service unit that remounts `/proc`
after `systemd-remount-fs.service` has completed.

To verify the correctness of the feature, simple tests were added to
nixos/tests/misc: the test ensures that unprivileged users cannot see
process information owned by another user, while members of "proc" CAN.

Thanks to @abbradar for feedback and suggestions.
2016-04-10 12:27:06 +02:00