nixpkgs/nixos/modules/virtualisation/amazon-image.nix
Rickard Nilsson eb2f44c18c Generate /etc/passwd and /etc/group at build time
This is a rather large commit that switches user/group creation from using
useradd/groupadd on activation to just generating the contents of /etc/passwd
and /etc/group, and then on activation merging the generated files with the
files that exist in the system. This makes the user activation process much
cleaner, in my opinion.

The users.extraUsers.<user>.uid and users.extraGroups.<group>.gid must all be
properly defined (if <user>.createUser is true, which it is by default). My
pull request adds a lot of uids/gids to config.ids to solve this problem for
existing nixos services, but there might be configurations that break because
this change. However, this will be discovered during the build.

Option changes introduced by this commit:

* Remove the options <user>.isSystemUser and <user>.isAlias since
they don't make sense when generating /etc/passwd statically.

* Add <group>.members as a complement to <user>.extraGroups.

* Add <user>.passwordFile for setting a user's password from an encrypted
(shadow-style) file.

* Add users.mutableUsers which is true by default. This means you can keep
managing your users as previously, by using useradd/groupadd manually. This is
accomplished by merging the generated passwd/group file with the existing files
in /etc on system activation. The merging of the files is simplistic. It just
looks at the user/group names. If a user/group exists both on the system and
in the generated files, the system entry will be kept un-changed and the
generated entries will be ignored. The merging itself is performed with the
help of vipw/vigr to properly lock the account files during edit.
If mutableUsers is set to false, the generated passwd and group files will not
be merged with the system files on activation. Instead they will simply replace
the system files, and overwrite any changes done on the running system. The
same logic holds for user password, if the <user>.password or
<user>.passwordFile options are used. If mutableUsers is false, password will
simply be replaced on activation. If true, the initial user passwords will be
set according to the configuration, but existing passwords will not be touched.

I have tested this on a couple of different systems and it seems to work fine
so far. If you think this is a good idea, please test it. This way of adding
local users has been discussed in issue #103 (and this commit solves that
issue).
2014-02-05 15:56:51 +01:00

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{ config, pkgs, ... }:
with pkgs.lib;
{
imports = [ ../profiles/headless.nix ./ec2-data.nix ];
system.build.amazonImage =
pkgs.vmTools.runInLinuxVM (
pkgs.runCommand "amazon-image"
{ preVM =
''
mkdir $out
diskImage=$out/nixos.img
${pkgs.vmTools.qemu}/bin/qemu-img create -f raw $diskImage "4G"
mv closure xchg/
'';
buildInputs = [ pkgs.utillinux pkgs.perl ];
exportReferencesGraph =
[ "closure" config.system.build.toplevel ];
}
''
# Create an empty filesystem and mount it.
${pkgs.e2fsprogs}/sbin/mkfs.ext4 -L nixos /dev/vda
${pkgs.e2fsprogs}/sbin/tune2fs -c 0 -i 0 /dev/vda
mkdir /mnt
mount /dev/vda /mnt
# The initrd expects these directories to exist.
mkdir /mnt/dev /mnt/proc /mnt/sys
mount -o bind /proc /mnt/proc
# Copy all paths in the closure to the filesystem.
storePaths=$(perl ${pkgs.pathsFromGraph} /tmp/xchg/closure)
mkdir -p /mnt/nix/store
echo "copying everything (will take a while)..."
cp -prd $storePaths /mnt/nix/store/
# Register the paths in the Nix database.
printRegistration=1 perl ${pkgs.pathsFromGraph} /tmp/xchg/closure | \
chroot /mnt ${config.nix.package}/bin/nix-store --load-db
# Create the system profile to allow nixos-rebuild to work.
chroot /mnt ${config.nix.package}/bin/nix-env \
-p /nix/var/nix/profiles/system --set ${config.system.build.toplevel}
# `nixos-rebuild' requires an /etc/NIXOS.
mkdir -p /mnt/etc
touch /mnt/etc/NIXOS
# `switch-to-configuration' requires a /bin/sh
mkdir -p /mnt/bin
ln -s ${config.system.build.binsh}/bin/sh /mnt/bin/sh
# Install a configuration.nix.
mkdir -p /mnt/etc/nixos
cp ${./amazon-config.nix} /mnt/etc/nixos/configuration.nix
# Generate the GRUB menu.
chroot /mnt ${config.system.build.toplevel}/bin/switch-to-configuration boot
umount /mnt/proc
umount /mnt
''
);
fileSystems."/".device = "/dev/disk/by-label/nixos";
boot.initrd.kernelModules = [ "xen-blkfront" ];
boot.kernelModules = [ "xen-netfront" ];
# Generate a GRUB menu. Amazon's pv-grub uses this to boot our kernel/initrd.
boot.loader.grub.version = 1;
boot.loader.grub.device = "nodev";
boot.loader.grub.timeout = 0;
boot.loader.grub.extraPerEntryConfig = "root (hd0)";
boot.initrd.postDeviceCommands =
''
# Force udev to exit to prevent random "Device or resource busy
# while trying to open /dev/xvda" errors from fsck.
udevadm control --exit || true
kill -9 -1
'';
# Mount all formatted ephemeral disks and activate all swap devices.
# We cannot do this with the fileSystems and swapDevices options
# because the set of devices is dependent on the instance type
# (e.g. "m1.large" has one ephemeral filesystem and one swap device,
# while "m1.large" has two ephemeral filesystems and no swap
# devices). Also, put /tmp and /var on /disk0, since it has a lot
# more space than the root device. Similarly, "move" /nix to /disk0
# by layering a unionfs-fuse mount on top of it so we have a lot more space for
# Nix operations.
boot.initrd.postMountCommands =
''
diskNr=0
diskForUnionfs=
for device in /dev/xvd[abcde]*; do
if [ "$device" = /dev/xvda -o "$device" = /dev/xvda1 ]; then continue; fi
fsType=$(blkid -o value -s TYPE "$device" || true)
if [ "$fsType" = swap ]; then
echo "activating swap device $device..."
swapon "$device" || true
elif [ "$fsType" = ext3 ]; then
mp="/disk$diskNr"
diskNr=$((diskNr + 1))
echo "mounting $device on $mp..."
if mountFS "$device" "$mp" "" ext3; then
if [ -z "$diskForUnionfs" ]; then diskForUnionfs="$mp"; fi
fi
else
echo "skipping unknown device type $device"
fi
done
if [ -n "$diskForUnionfs" ]; then
mkdir -m 755 -p $targetRoot/$diskForUnionfs/root
mkdir -m 1777 -p $targetRoot/$diskForUnionfs/root/tmp $targetRoot/tmp
mount --bind $targetRoot/$diskForUnionfs/root/tmp $targetRoot/tmp
if [ ! -e $targetRoot/.ebs ]; then
mkdir -m 755 -p $targetRoot/$diskForUnionfs/root/var $targetRoot/var
mount --bind $targetRoot/$diskForUnionfs/root/var $targetRoot/var
mkdir -p /unionfs-chroot/ro-nix
mount --rbind $targetRoot/nix /unionfs-chroot/ro-nix
mkdir -m 755 -p $targetRoot/$diskForUnionfs/root/nix
mkdir -p /unionfs-chroot/rw-nix
mount --rbind $targetRoot/$diskForUnionfs/root/nix /unionfs-chroot/rw-nix
unionfs -o allow_other,cow,nonempty,chroot=/unionfs-chroot,max_files=32768 /rw-nix=RW:/ro-nix=RO $targetRoot/nix
fi
fi
'';
boot.initrd.extraUtilsCommands =
''
# We need swapon in the initrd.
cp ${pkgs.utillinux}/sbin/swapon $out/bin
'';
# Don't put old configurations in the GRUB menu. The user has no
# way to select them anyway.
boot.loader.grub.configurationLimit = 0;
# Allow root logins only using the SSH key that the user specified
# at instance creation time.
services.openssh.enable = true;
services.openssh.permitRootLogin = "without-password";
# Force getting the hostname from EC2.
networking.hostName = mkDefault "";
# Always include cryptsetup so that Charon can use it.
environment.systemPackages = [ pkgs.cryptsetup ];
boot.initrd.supportedFilesystems = [ "unionfs-fuse" ];
# Prevent logging in as root without a password. This doesn't really matter,
# since the only PAM services that allow logging in with a null
# password are local ones that are inaccessible on EC2 machines.
users.extraUsers.root.password = null;
}