nixpkgs/nixos/modules/misc
Joachim Fasting cef2814a4f nixos: add optional process information hiding
This module adds an option `security.hideProcessInformation` that, when
enabled, restricts access to process information such as command-line
arguments to the process owner.  The module adds a static group "proc"
whose members are exempt from process information hiding.

Ideally, this feature would be implemented by simply adding the
appropriate mount options to `fileSystems."/proc".fsOptions`, but this
was found to not work in vmtests. To ensure that process information
hiding is enforced, we use a systemd service unit that remounts `/proc`
after `systemd-remount-fs.service` has completed.

To verify the correctness of the feature, simple tests were added to
nixos/tests/misc: the test ensures that unprivileged users cannot see
process information owned by another user, while members of "proc" CAN.

Thanks to @abbradar for feedback and suggestions.
2016-04-10 12:27:06 +02:00
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assertions.nix
crashdump.nix Add missing 'type', 'defaultText' and 'literalExample' in module definitions 2016-01-17 19:41:23 +01:00
extra-arguments.nix
ids.nix nixos: add optional process information hiding 2016-04-10 12:27:06 +02:00
lib.nix
locate.nix Improve services.locate.period deprecation message 2016-02-27 20:48:12 +01:00
meta.nix Revert "Add the tool "nixos-typecheck" that can check an option declaration to:" 2016-03-01 20:52:06 +01:00
nixpkgs.nix Revert "Add the tool "nixos-typecheck" that can check an option declaration to:" 2016-03-01 20:52:06 +01:00
passthru.nix
version.nix NixOS 16.09 is called Flounder 2016-03-14 19:09:54 +00:00