Using nixos-taskserver is more verbose but less cryptic and I think it
fits the purpose better because it can't be confused to be a wrapper
around the taskdctl command from the upstream project as
nixos-taskserver shares no commonalities with it.
Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org>
With a cluttered up module source it's really a pain to navigate through
it, so it's a good idea to put it into another file.
No changes in functionality here, just splitting up the files and fixing
references.
Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org>
Finally, this is where we declaratively set up our organisations and
users/groups, which looks like this in the system configuration:
services.taskserver.organisations.NixOS.users = [ "alice" "bob" ];
This automatically sets up "alice" and "bob" for the "NixOS"
organisation, generates the required client keys and signs it via the
CA.
However, we still need to use nixos-taskdctl export-user in order to
import these certificates on the client.
Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org>
It's a helper for NixOS systems to make it easier to handle CA
certificate signing, similar to what taskd provides but comes preseeded
with the values from the system configuration.
The tool is very limited at the moment and only allows to *add*
organisations, users and groups. Deletion and suspension however is much
simpler to implement, because we don't need to handle certificate
signing.
Another limitation is that we don't take into account whether
certificates and keys are already set in the system configuration and if
they're set it will fail spectacularly.
For passing the commands to the taskd command, we're using a small C
program which does setuid() and setgid() to the Taskserver user and
group, because runuser(1) needs PAM (quite pointless if you're already
root) and su(1) doesn't allow for setting the group and setgid()s to the
default group of the user, so it even doesn't work in conjunction with
sg(1).
In summary, we now have a shiny nixos-taskdctl command, which lets us do
things like:
nixos-taskdctl add-org NixOS
nixos-taskdctl add-user NixOS alice
nixos-taskdctl export-user NixOS alice
The last command writes a series of shell commands to stdout, which then
can be imported on the client by piping it into a shell as well as doing
it for example via SSH:
ssh root@server nixos-taskdctl export-user NixOS alice | sh
Of course, in terms of security we need to improve this even further so
that we generate the private key on the client and just send a CSR to
the server so that we don't need to push any secrets over the wire.
Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org>
We want to declaratively specify users and organisations, so let's add
another module option "organisations", which allows us to specify users,
groups and of course organisations.
The implementation of this is not yet done and this is just to feed the
boilerplate.
Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org>
Using just the host for the common name *and* for listening on the port
is quite a bad idea if you want to listen on something like :: or an
internal IP address which is proxied/tunneled to the outside.
Hence this separates host and fqdn.
Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org>
The server starts up without that option anyway, but it complains about
its value not being set. As we probably want to have access to that
configuration value anyway, let's expose this via the NixOS module as
well.
Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org>
Now the service starts up if only the services.taskserver.enable option
is set to true.
We now also have three systemd services (started in this order):
* taskserver-init: For creating the necessary data directory and also
includes a refecence to the configuration file in
the Nix store.
* taskserver-ca: Only enabled if none of the server.key, server.cert,
server.crl and caCert options are set, so we can
allow for certificates that are issued by another
CA.
This service creates a new CA key+certificate and a
server key+certificate and signs the latter using
the CA key.
The permissions of these keys/certs are set quite
strictly to allow only the root user to sign
certificates.
* taskserver: The main Taskserver service which just starts taskd.
We now also log to stdout and thus to the journal.
Of course, there are still a few problems left to solve, for instance:
* The CA currently only signs the server certificates, so it's
only usable for clients if the server doesn't validate client certs
(which is kinda pointless).
* Using "taskd <command>" is currently still a bit awkward to use, so
we need to properly wrap it in environment.systemPackages to set the
dataDir by default.
* There are still a few configuration options left to include, for
example the "trust" option.
* We might want to introduce an extraConfig option.
* It might be useful to allow for declarative configuration of
organisations and users, especially when it comes to creating client
certificates.
* The right signal has to be sent for the taskserver service to reload
properly.
* Currently the CA and server certificates are created using
server.host as the common name and doesn't set additional certificate
information. This could be improved by adding options that explicitly
set that information.
As for the config file, we might need to patch taskd to allow for
setting not only --data but also a --cfgfile, which then omits the
${dataDir}/config file. We can still use the "include" directive from
the file specified using --cfgfile in order to chainload
${dataDir}/config.
Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org>
The descriptions for the options previously seem to be from the
taskdrc(5) manual page. So in cases where they didn't make sense for us
I changed the wording a bit (for example for client.deny we don't have a
"comma-separated list".
Also, I've reordered things a bit for consistency (type, default,
example and then description) and add missing types, examples and
docbook tags.
Options that are not used by default now have a null value, so that we
can generate a configuration file out of all the options defined for the
module.
The dataDir default value is now /var/lib/taskserver, because it doesn't
make sense to put just yet another empty subdirectory in it and "data"
doesn't quite make sense anyway, because it also contains the
configuration file as well.
Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org>
We're aiming for a proper integration into systemd/journald, so we
really don't want zillions of separate log files flying around in our
system.
Same as with the pidFile. The latter is only needed for taskdctl, which
is a SysV-style initscript and all of its functionality plus a lot more
is handled by systemd already.
Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org>
The service doesn't start with the "taskd" user being present, so we
really should add it. And while at it, it really makes sense to add a
default group as well.
I'm using a check for the user/group name as well, to allow the
taskserver to be run as an existing user.
Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org>
This patch makes dbus launch with any user session instead of
leaving it up to the desktop environment launch script to run it.
It has been tested with KDE, which simply uses the running daemon
instead of launching its own.
This is upstream's recommended way to run dbus.
Previously, the cisco resolver was used on the theory that it would
provide the best user experience regardless of location. The downsides
of cisco are 1) logging; 2) missing supoprt for DNS security extensions.
The new upstream resolver is located in Holland, supports DNS security,
and *claims* to not log activity. For users outside of Europe, this will
mean reduced performance, but I believe it's a worthy tradeoff.
When iodined tries to start before any interface other than loopback has an ip, iodined fails.
Wait for ip-up.target
The above is because of the following:
in iodined's code: src/common.c line 157
the flag AI_ADDRCONFIG is passed as a flag to getaddrinfo.
Iodine uses the function
get_addr(char *host,
int port,
int addr_family,
int flags,
struct sockaddr_storage *out);
to get address information via getaddrinfo().
Within get_addr, the flag AI_ADDRCONFIG is forced.
What this flag does, is cause getaddrinfo to return
"Name or service not known" as an error explicitly if no ip
has been assigned to the computer.
see getaddrinfo(3)
Wait for an ip before starting iodined.
* the major change is to set TARGETDIR=${vardir}, and symlink from
${vardir} back to ${out} instead of the other way around. this
gives CP more liberty to write to more directories -- in particular
it seems to want to write some configuration files outside of conf?
* run.conf does not need 'export'
* minor tweaks to CrashPlanDesktop.patch
GnuPG 2.1.x changed the way the gpg-agent works, and that new approach no
longer requires (or even supports) the "start everything as a child of the
agent" scheme we've implemented in NixOS for older versions.
To configure the gpg-agent for your X session, add the following code to
~/.xsession or some other appropriate place that's sourced at start-up:
gpg-connect-agent /bye
GPG_TTY=$(tty)
export GPG_TTY
If you want to use gpg-agent for SSH, too, also add the settings
unset SSH_AGENT_PID
export SSH_AUTH_SOCK="${HOME}/.gnupg/S.gpg-agent.ssh"
and make sure that
enable-ssh-support
is included in your ~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf.
The gpg-agent(1) man page has more details about this subject, i.e. in the
"EXAMPLES" section.
This patch fixes https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/12927.
It would be great to configure good rate-limiting defaults for this via
/proc/sys/net/ipv4/icmp_ratelimit and /proc/sys/net/ipv6/icmp/ratelimit,
too, but I didn't since I don't know what a "good default" would be.
Some users may wish to improve their privacy by using per-query
key pairs, which makes it more difficult for upstream resolvers to
track users across IP addresses.
- fix `enable` option description
using `mkEnableOption longDescription` is incorrect; override
`description` instead
- additional details for proper usage of the service, including
an example of the recommended configuration
- clarify `localAddress` option description
- clarify `localPort` option description
- clarify `customResolver` option description
