[PATCH] services: cuirass: Run ‘remote-worker’ under its own user/group.

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Ludovic Courtès wrote 27 hours ago
[PATCH] services: cuirass: Run ‘remote-wo rker’ under its own user/group.
(address . guix-patches@gnu.org)(name . Ludovic Courtès)(address . ludo@gnu.org)
a02b40f13871e74f55794105fe704e0fbf241cc6.1728940495.git.ludo@gnu.org
The ‘--user’ option was added to ‘cuirass remote-worker’ in Cuirass
commit 3a6abc17f904f38098d3ab08e9d82de2e821d348 (Nov. 2023).

* gnu/services/cuirass.scm (%cuirass-remote-worker-accounts): New
variable.
(cuirass-remote-worker-shepherd-service): Pass ‘--user’.
(cuirass-remote-worker-service-type): Add ACCOUNT-SERVICE-TYPE
extension.

Change-Id: I075ea02b6972adcad0a75e330073e85c4dacbbc5
---
gnu/services/cuirass.scm | 16 ++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)

Hello!

This is fixing longstanding flakiness...

Ludo'.

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diff --git a/gnu/services/cuirass.scm b/gnu/services/cuirass.scm
index f68b4dc5a2..187766bc99 100644
--- a/gnu/services/cuirass.scm
+++ b/gnu/services/cuirass.scm
@@ -384,6 +384,19 @@ (define-record-type* <cuirass-remote-worker-configuration>
(private-key cuirass-remote-worker-configuration-private-key ;string
(default #f)))
+(define %cuirass-remote-worker-accounts
+ ;; User account and group for the 'cuirass remote-worker' process.
+ (list (user-group
+ (name "cuirass-worker")
+ (system? #t))
+ (user-account
+ (name "cuirass-worker")
+ (group name)
+ (system? #t)
+ (comment "Cuirass worker privilege separation user")
+ (home-directory "/var/empty")
+ (shell (file-append shadow "/sbin/nologin")))))
+
(define (cuirass-remote-worker-shepherd-service config)
"Return a <shepherd-service> for the Cuirass remote worker service with
CONFIG."
@@ -397,6 +410,7 @@ (define (cuirass-remote-worker-shepherd-service config)
(start #~(make-forkexec-constructor
(list (string-append #$cuirass "/bin/cuirass")
"remote-worker"
+ "--user=cuirass-worker" ;drop privileges early on
(string-append "--workers="
#$(number->string workers))
#$@(if server
@@ -444,6 +458,8 @@ (define cuirass-remote-worker-service-type
(extensions
(list (service-extension shepherd-root-service-type
cuirass-remote-worker-shepherd-service)
+ (service-extension account-service-type
+ (const %cuirass-remote-worker-accounts))
(service-extension rottlog-service-type
cuirass-remote-worker-log-rotations)))
(description

base-commit: 6757bfdfc0b22a1e23a3d33566155550182244fc
--
2.46.0
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