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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
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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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diff --git a/nixos/modules/config/users-groups.nix b/nixos/modules/config/users-groups.nix
index 061f51ccda7..c27a94a22d5 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 =