Dropbear lags behind OpenSSH significantly in both support for modern
key formats like `ssh-ed25519`, let alone the recently-introduced
U2F/FIDO2-based `sk-ssh-ed25519@openssh.com` (as I found when I switched
my `authorizedKeys` over to it and promptly locked myself out of my
server's initrd SSH, breaking reboots), as well as security features
like multiprocess isolation. Using the same SSH daemon for stage-1 and
the main system ensures key formats will always remain compatible, as
well as more conveniently allowing the sharing of configuration and
host keys.
The main reason to use Dropbear over OpenSSH would be initrd space
concerns, but NixOS initrds are already large (17 MiB currently on my
server), and the size difference between the two isn't huge (the test's
initrd goes from 9.7 MiB to 12 MiB with this change). If the size is
still a problem, then it would be easy to shrink sshd down to a few
hundred kilobytes by using an initrd-specific build that uses musl and
disables things like Kerberos support.
This passes the test and works on my server, but more rigorous testing
and review from people who use initrd SSH would be appreciated!
Running the manual on a TTY is useless in the graphical ISOs and not
particularly useful in non-graphical ISOs (since you can also run
'nixos-help').
Fixes #83157.
While renaming `networking.defaultMailServer` directly to
`services.ssmtp` is shorter and probably clearer, it causes eval errors
due to the second rename (directDelivery -> enable) when using e.g. `lib.mkForce`.
For instance,
``` nix
{ lib, ... }: {
networking.defaultMailServer = {
hostName = "localhost";
directDelivery = lib.mkForce true;
domain = "example.org";
};
}
```
would break with the following (rather confusing) error:
```
error: The option value `services.ssmtp.enable' in `/home/ma27/Projects/nixpkgs/nixos/modules/programs/ssmtp.nix' is not of type `boolean'.
(use '--show-trace' to show detailed location information)
```
NixOS 20.03 is built on kernel 5.4 and 19.09 is on 4.19, so we should update
this option to the highest value possible, per linked upstream instructions from
Amazon.
* nixos/nixpkgs.nix: Allow just using config in system
This assertion requires system to work properly. We might not have
this in cases where the user just sets config and wants Nixpkgs to
infer system from that. This adds a default for when this happens,
using doubleFromSystem.
* parens
`$toplevel/system` of a system closure with `x86_64` kernel and `i686` userland should contain "x86_64-linux".
If `$toplevel/system` contains "i686-linux", the closure will be run using `qemu-system-i386`, which is able to run `x86_64` kernel on most Intel CPU, but fails on AMD.
So this fix is for a rare case of `x86_64` kernel + `i686` userland + AMD CPU
Previously, systemd.network.links was only respected with networkd
enabled, but it's really udev taking care of links, no matter if
networkd is enabled or not.
With our module fixed, there's no need to manually manage the text file
anymore.
This was originally applied in 3d1079a20d,
but was reverted due to 1115959a8d causing
evaluation errors on hydra.
This mirrors the behaviour of systemd - It's udev that parses `.link`
files, not `systemd-networkd`.
This was originally applied in 36ef112a47,
but was reverted due to 1115959a8d causing
evaluation errors on hydra.
If the host network stack is slow to start, the alertmanager fails to
start with this error message:
caller=main.go:256 msg="unable to initialize gossip mesh" err="create memberlist: Failed to get final advertise address: No private IP address found, and explicit IP not provided"
This bug can be reproduced by shutting down the network stack and
restarting the alertmanager.
Note I don't know why I didn't hit this issue with previous
alertmanager releases.
* Linkify all service options used in the code-examples.
* Demonstrated the use of `riot-web.override {}`.
* Moved the example how to configure a postgresql-database for
`matrix-synapse` to this document from the 20.03 release-notes.
Fixes some dependency ordering problems at boot time with services that
require DNS. Without Type=notify these services might be started before
stubby was ready to accept DNS requests.
The v7 series is very different.
This commit introduces the 3 packages: fahclient, fahcontrol and
fahviewer. It also rebuilds the NixOS module to map better with the new
client.
Previously the assertion passed if the kernel had support OR the
filter was *enabled*. In the case of a kernel without support, the
`checkReversePath` option defaulted to false, and then failed the
assertion.
...even when networkd is disabled
This reverts commit ce78f3ac70, reversing
changes made to dc34da0755.
I'm sorry; Hydra has been unable to evaluate, always returning
> error: unexpected EOF reading a line
and I've been unable to reproduce the problem locally. Bisecting
pointed to this merge, but I still can't see what exactly was wrong.
extraModprobeConfig could be applied too late i.e. if the driver has been
loaded in initrd, while the harddrive is still encrypted.
Using a kernelParams works in all cases however.
Running haproxy with "DynamicUser = true" doesn't really work, since
it prohibits specifying a TLS certificate bundle with limited
permissions. This revives the haproxy user and group, but makes them
dynamically allocated by NixOS, rather than statically allocated. It
also adds options to specify which user and group haproxy runs as.
