This is useful for development where overwriting files out side
the configured prefix will affect the host as well as stateless
systems such as NixOS that don't let packages install to /etc but handle
configuration on their own.
Alternative to https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/17501
tested with:
$ mkdir inst build && cd build
$ meson \
-Dcreate-log-dirs=false \
-Dsysvrcnd-path=$(realpath ../inst)/etc/rc.d \
-Dsysvinit-path=$(realpath ../inst)/etc/init.d \
-Drootprefix=$(realpath ../inst) \
-Dinstall-sysconfdir=false \
--prefix=$(realpath ../inst) ..
$ ninja install
... when called with a valid environment variable name. This means that
any time we call it with a fixed string, it is guaranteed to return 0.
(Also when the variable is not present in the environment block.)
We had two of each: both homectl and journalctl had the whole dlopen()
wrapper, and journalctl had two implementations (slightly different) of the
code to print the fss:// pattern.
print_qrcode() now returns -EOPNOTSUPP when compiled with qrcode support. Both
callers ignore the return value, so this changes nothing.
No functional change.
Why this change
---------------
Assumption - PAM's auth stack is properly configured.
Currently account pam_systemd_home.so returns PAM_SUCCESS for non
systemd-homed users, and a variety of return values (including
PAM_SUCCESS) for homed users.
account pam_unix returns PAM_AUTHINFO_UNAVAIL for systemd-homed
users, and a variety of return values (including PAM_AUTHINFO_UNAVAIL)
for normal users.
No possible combination in the pam stack can let us preserve the
various return values of the modules. For example, the configuration
mentioned in the manpage causes account pam_unix to never be reached
since pam_systemd_home just returns a success for ordinary users. Users
with expired passwords are allowed to log in because a check cannot be
made.
More configuration examples and why they don't work are mentioned
in #16906 and the downstream discussion linked there.
After this change
-----------------
account pam_unix will continue to return wrong value for homed users.
But we can skip the module conditionally using the return value from
account pam_systemd_home. We can already do this with the auth and
password modules.
We would return ENOENT, which is extremely confusing. Strace is not helpful because
no *file* is actually missing. So let's add some logs at debug level and also use
a custom return code. Let all user-facing utilities print a custom error message
in that case.
Let's explicitly deactivate all home dirs on shutdown, in order to
properly synchronizing unmounting and avoiding blocking devices.
Previously, we'd rely on automatic deactivation when home directories
become unused. However, that scheme is asynchronous, and ongoing
deactviations might conflicts with attempts to unmount /home. Let's fix
that by providing an explicit service systemd-homed-activate.service
whose only job is to have a ExecStop= line that explicitly deactivates
all home directories on shutdown. This service can the be ordered after
home.mount and similar, ensuring that we'll first deactivate all homes
before deactivating /home itself during shutdown.
This is kept separate from systemd-homed.service so that it is possible
to restart systemd-homed.service without deactivating all home
directories.
Fixes: #16842
Let's make umount_verbose() more like mount_verbose_xyz(), i.e. take log
level and flags param. In particular the latter matters, since we
typically don't actually want to follow symlinks when unmounting.
The directory backend needs a file system path, and not a raw block
device. That's only supported for the LUKS2 backend.
Let's make this clearer in the man page and also generate a better error
message if attempted anyway.
Fixes: #17068
When exiting, let's explicitly wait for our worker processes to finish
first. That's useful if unmounting of /home/ is scheduled to happen
right after homed is down, as we then can be sure that the home
directories are properly unmounted and detached by the time homed is
fully terminated (otherwise it might happen that our worker gets killed
by the service manager, thus leaving the home directory and its backing
devices up/left for auto-clean which might be async).
Likely fixes#16842
When debugging homed while being logged into a user account manged by
homed it is a good idea to be able to run a second copy of homed. In
order to not collide with its AF_UNIX socket and bus name use, let's add
a new env var $SYSTEMD_HOME_DEBUG_SUFFIX, when set the busnames/socket
names are suffixed by it. When setting this while debugging one can
invoke an additional copy without interfering with the host one.
They are only used under src/home/, but I want to add tests in test-libcrypt-util.c.
And the functions are almost trivial, so I think it is OK to move them to shared.
Remember the secret if the for_state is FIXATING_FOR_ACTIVATION or
FIXATING_FOR_ACQUIRE. This fixes login failures when logging in
to an unfixated user.
"crypt-util.c" is such a generic name, let's avoid that, in particular
as libc's/libcrypt's crypt() function is so generically named too that
one might thing this is about that. Let's hence be more precise, and
make clear that this is about cryptsetup, and nothing else.
We already had cryptsetup-util.[ch] in src/cryptsetup/ doing keyfile
management. To avoid the needless confusion, let's rename that file to
cryptsetup-keyfile.[ch].
This seems to be overridable by setting the SYSTEMD_HOMEWORK_PATH env
variable, but the error message always printed the SYSTEMD_HOMEWORK_PATH
constant.
Let's track the "dirty" state of a home directory backed by a LUKS
volume by setting a new xattr "home.home-dirty" on the backing file
whenever it is in use.
This allows us to later user this information to show a home directory
as "dirty". This is useful because we trim/allocate on log-out, and
if we don't do that a home directory will be larger than necessary. This
fact is something we should communicate to the admin.
The idea is that when an admin sees a user with a "dirty" home directory
they can ask them to log in, to clean up the dirty state, and thus trim
everything again.
Lennart Poettering