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authorAustin Seipp <aseipp@pobox.com>2014-04-06 14:18:12 -0500
committerAustin Seipp <aseipp@pobox.com>2014-04-11 22:43:51 -0500
commit172dc1336f108ee81b0f5f8b9be3d27706b1c032 (patch)
treeb9d98f3710365ea9fdc6e57ae00f9ef1cdac2a95 /nixos/modules/config/users-groups.nix
parentcf24cf1184ad6fc62292b9668c836e5a1435902c (diff)
nixos: add grsecurity module (#1875)
This module implements a significant refactoring in grsecurity configuration for NixOS, making it far more usable by default and much easier to configure. - New security.grsecurity NixOS attributes. - All grsec kernels supported - Allows default 'auto' grsec configuration, or custom config - Supports custom kernel options through kernelExtraConfig - Defaults to high-security - user must choose kernel, server/desktop mode, and any virtualisation software. That's all. - kptr_restrict is fixed under grsecurity (it's unwriteable) - grsecurity patch creation is now significantly abstracted - only need revision, version, and SHA1 - kernel version requirements are asserted for sanity - built kernels can have the uname specify the exact grsec version for development or bug reports. Off by default (requires `security.grsecurity.config.verboseVersion = true;`) - grsecurity sysctl support - By default, disabled. - For people who enable it, NixOS deploys a 'grsec-lock' systemd service which runs at startup. You are expected to configure sysctl through NixOS like you regularly would, which will occur before the service is started. As a result, changing sysctl settings requires a reboot. - New default group: 'grsecurity' - Root is a member by default - GRKERNSEC_PROC_GID is implicitly set to the 'grsecurity' GID, making it possible to easily add users to this group for /proc access - AppArmor is now automatically enabled where it wasn't before, despite implying features.apparmor = true The most trivial example of enabling grsecurity in your kernel is by specifying: security.grsecurity.enable = true; security.grsecurity.testing = true; # testing 3.13 kernel security.grsecurity.config.system = "desktop"; # or "server" This specifies absolutely no virtualisation support. In general, you probably at least want KVM host support, which is a little more work. So: security.grsecurity.enable = true; security.grsecurity.stable = true; # enable stable 3.2 kernel security.grsecurity.config = { system = "server"; priority = "security"; virtualisationConfig = "host"; virtualisationSoftware = "kvm"; hardwareVirtualisation = true; } This module has primarily been tested on Hetzner EX40 & VQ7 servers using NixOps. Signed-off-by: Austin Seipp <aseipp@pobox.com>
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1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/nixos/modules/config/users-groups.nix b/nixos/modules/config/users-groups.nix
index 061f51ccda7b..c27a94a22d58 100644
--- a/nixos/modules/config/users-groups.nix
+++ b/nixos/modules/config/users-groups.nix
@@ -392,6 +392,7 @@ in {
home = "/root";
shell = cfg.defaultUserShell;
group = "root";
+ extraGroups = [ "grsecurity" ];
hashedPassword = mkDefault config.security.initialRootPassword;
};
nobody = {
@@ -420,6 +421,7 @@ in {
nixbld.gid = ids.gids.nixbld;
utmp.gid = ids.gids.utmp;
adm.gid = ids.gids.adm;
+ grsecurity.gid = ids.gids.grsecurity;
};
system.activationScripts.users =