I'm not any good at perl, and I only came up with this after many
slow attempts. Any review welcome.
But until this, memtest was broken, and extraPrepareConfig as well, in grub.
Having all services with DefaultDependencies=yes depend on
local-fs.target is annoying, because some of those services might be
necessary to mount local filesystems. For instance, Charon's
send-keys feature requires sshd to be running in order to receive LUKS
encryption keys, which in turn requires dhcpcd, and so on. So we drop
this dependency (and swap.target as well for consistency). If
services require a specific mount, they should use RequiresMountsFor
in any case.
Charon needs this to include the dynamically generated
/root/.vbox-charon-client-key. (We used
users.extraUsers.root.openssh.authorizedKeys.keyFiles for this, but
that no longer works.)
Instead of the somewhat hacky script that inserted public keys
into the users' .ssh/authorized_keys files, use the AuthorizedKeysFile
configuration directive in sshd_config and generate extra key
files for each user (placed in /etc/authorized_keys.d/).
This has rendered my system unbootable, because I forgot to enable AUTOFS4 in my
custom kernel. In addition to AUTOFS4, this includes (hopefully) all other
kernel features needed by systemd, as listed in the README:
REQUIREMENTS:
Linux kernel >= 2.6.39
with devtmpfs
with cgroups (but it's OK to disable all controllers)
optional but strongly recommended: autofs4, ipv6
Autofs4 is not a requirement here, but in our case it turns out that the system
is not able to boot properly with a LUKS-enabled system (or at least not on _my_
system).
Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org>
The xsession script runs services that depend on a sane environment. Gpg-agent, for
example, runs the program "pinentry-gtk-2" to obtain the password to unlock GnuPG
and SSH keys. That program will display only gibberish unless $FONTCONFIG_FILE is
configured properly. Instead of configuring these variables explicitly one by one,
we just source /etc/profile, which contains the appropriate @shellInit@ code.
This is needed in order to properly lock your screen using the C-a C-x
(lockscreen) command _and_ being back to re-login, because the "other" PAM
service/fallback is to deny authentication.
Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org>
Thus
networking.interfaces = [ { name = "eth0"; ipAddress = "192.168.15.1"; } ];
can now be written as
networking.interfaces.eth0.ipAddress = "192.168.15.1";
The old notation still works though.
Running agetty on ttyS0 interferes with the backdoor, which uses ttyS0
as its standard error. After agetty starts, writes to the stderr file
descriptor will return EIO (though doing "exec 2>/proc/self/fd/2" will
miracuously fix this).
http://hydra.nixos.org/build/3252782
Cgroups are handled by systemd now. Systemd's cgroup support does not
do all the things that cgrulesengd does, but they're likely to
interact poorly with each other.
‘systemd-vconsole-setup’ by default operates on /dev/tty0, the
currently active tty. Since it puts /dev/tty0 in Unicode or ASCII
mode, if the X server is currently active when it runs, keys such as
Alt-F4 won't reach the X server anymore. So use /dev/tty1 instead.
We now just have a simple attribute called "version24" which replaces all those
pesky versionOlder that were spreading throughout the file and makes things way
more readable.
Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org>
By default the path is determined related to ServerRoot. Unfortunately
ServerRoot is pointing to the Nix store and the web server can't write to it.
We now create a directory called "runtime" withen the stateDir and point
DefaultRuntimeDir to it.
For more information on the DefaultRuntimeDir directive, please see:
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/core.html#defaultruntimedir
Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org>
NameVirtualHost no longer has any effect on version 2.4 and just emits ugly
warnings, so let's not use it if we use 2.4.
More information: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/upgrading.html#misc
Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org>
The Order/Deny directives are deprecated in version 2.4, so we're going to
define two wrappers for allDenied and allGranted in order to properly generate
configurations for both version 2.2 and 2.4.
For more information an access control changes, see:
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/upgrading.html#access
Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org>
Now, MPMs can be loaded at runtime and it's no longer required to compile in one
of the MPM modules statically. So, if version is >= 2.4, load the MPM module
corresponding to the multiProcessingModule value of the service module.
For details, please see: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mpm.html
Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org>
Beginning with version 2.3, the authn were refactored. As a result, authn_alias
is now part of the new module authn_core, so let's use authn_core instead of
authn_alias.
For details please see: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/upgrading.html#misc
Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org>
The new configuration.nix option 'environment.enableBashCompletion'
determines whether bash completion is automatically enabled system-wide
for all interactive shells or not. The default setting is 'off'.
The new configuration.nix option 'environment.enableBashCompletion'
determines whether bash completion is automatically enabled system-wide
for all interactive shells or not. The default setting is 'off'.
My main reason for adding this is the ability to turn off helpers
altogether. If you are not using any of the special protocols, keeping
them turned off is safest, and in case you do want to use them, it's
best to configure them through the new CT target for your network
topology. Perhaps some sane defaults for nixos can be examined in the
future.
This change has no impact if you don't touch the added options, so no
need to adapt.
This is meant to replace /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/*/rp_filter, which
only works for ipv4. Furthermore, it's nicer to handle this kind of
filtering in the firewall.
There are some more subtle differences, please see:
https://home.regit.org/netfilter-en/secure-use-of-helpers/
I chose to enable this by default (when the firewall is enabled) as
it's a good idea in general. Only people with advanced routing needs
might not want this, but I guess they don't use the nixos firewall
anyway and use a custom solution. Furthermore, the option only becomes
available in kernel 3.3+, so conservative nixos users that just stick
to the default kernel will not need to act now just yet.
