In commit d43dc68db3, @Mic92 split the
rootpw option to allow specifying it in a file kept outside the Nix
store, as an alternative to specifying the password directly in the
config.
Prior to that, rootpw's type was `str`, but in order to allow both
alternatives, it had to become `nullOr str` with a default of `null`. So
I can see why this assertion, that either rootpw or rootpwFile are
specified, makes sense to add here.
However, these options aren't used if the configDir option is set, so as
written this assertion breaks valid configurations, including the
configuration used by nixos/tests/ldap.nix.
So this patch fixes the assertion so that it doesn't fire if configDir
is set.
This is a refactor of how resolvconf is managed on NixOS. We split it
into a separate service which is enabled internally depending on whether
we want /etc/resolv.conf to be managed by it. Various services now take
advantage of those configuration options.
We also now use systemd instead of activation scripts to update
resolv.conf.
NetworkManager now uses the right option for rc-manager DNS
automatically, so the configuration option shouldn't be exposed.
The new option services.postfix.localRecipients allows
configuring the postfix option 'local_recipient_maps'. When
set to a list of user names (or patterns), that map
effectively replaces the lookup in the system's user
database that's used by default to determine which local
users are valid.
This option is useful to explicitly set local users that are
allowed to receive e-mail from the outside world. For local
injection i.e. via the 'sendmail' command this option has no
effect.
This commit brings a module that installs the
IBM Spectrum Protect (Tivoli Storage Manager)
command-line client together with its
system-wide client system-options file `dsm.sys`.
We were already creating a group for the user under which to run syncthing but
we were defaulting to running as `nogroup`.
Additionally, use `install` instead of multiple calls to mkdir/cp/chown.
NixOS usually needs nscd just to have a single place where
LD_LIBRARY_PATH can be set to include all NSS modules, but nscd is also
useful if some of the NSS modules need to read files which are only
accessible by root.
For example, nixos/modules/config/ldap.nix needs this when
users.ldap.enable = true;
users.ldap.daemon.enable = false;
and users.ldap.bind.passwordFile exists. In that case, the module
creates an /etc/ldap.conf which is only readable by root, but which the
NSS module needs to read in order to find out what LDAP server to
connect to and with what credentials.
If nscd is started as root and configured with the server-user option in
nscd.conf, then it gives each NSS module the opportunity to initialize
itself before dropping privileges. The initialization happens in the
glibc-internal __nss_disable_nscd function, which pre-loads all the
configured NSS modules for passwd, group, hosts, and services (but not
netgroup for some reason?) and, for each loaded module, calls an init
function if one is defined. After that finishes, nscd's main() calls
nscd_init() which ends by calling finish_drop_privileges().
There are provisions in systemd for using DynamicUser with a service
which needs to drop privileges itself, so this patch does that.
Until now the startup failed with an error like this:
```
com.github.joschi.jadconfig.ValidationException: Parent path /var/lib/graylog/server for Node ID file at /var/lib/graylog/server/node-id is not a directory
```
This happens since `graylog.service` ensures that `/var/lib/graylog`
exists, however it doesn't take care of the directory for
`cfg.nodeIdFile`.
Thanks to @arianvp for pointing out that when DynamicUser is true,
systemd defaults the value of User to be the name of the unit, which in
this case is already "nscd".
This is more robust than setting via environment variable, though it does come
later in the load sequence. An added benefit is affecting the current
session.
These options were being set to the same value as the defaults that are
hardcoded in nscd. Delete them so it's clear which settings are actually
important for NixOS.
One exception is `threads 1`, which is different from the built-in
default of 4. However, both values are equivalent because nscd forces
the number of threads to be at least as many as the number of kinds of
databases it supports, which is 5.
nscd doesn't create any files outside of /run/nscd unless the nscd.conf
"persistent" option is used, which we don't do by default. Therefore it
doesn't matter what UID/GID we run this service as, so long as it isn't
shared with any other running processes.
/run/nscd does need to be owned by the same UID that the service is
running as, but systemd takes care of that for us thanks to the
RuntimeDirectory directive.
If someone wants to turn on the "persistent" option, they need to
manually configure users.users.nscd and systemd.tmpfiles.rules so that
/var/db/nscd is owned by the same user that nscd runs as.
In an all-defaults boot.isContainer configuration of NixOS, this removes
the only user which did not have a pre-assigned UID.
