This test exercises the linux_hardened kernel along with the various
hardening features (enabled via the hardened profile).
Move hidepid test from misc, so that misc can go back to testing a vanilla
configuration.
Adds an option `security.lockKernelModules` that, when enabled, disables
kernel module loading once the system reaches its normal operating state.
The rationale for this over simply setting the sysctl knob is to allow
some legitmate kernel module loading to occur; the naive solution breaks
too much to be useful.
The benefit to the user is to help ensure the integrity of the kernel
runtime: only code loaded as part of normal system initialization will be
available in the kernel for the duration of the boot session. This helps
prevent injection of malicious code or unexpected loading of legitimate
but normally unused modules that have exploitable bugs (e.g., DCCP use
after free CVE-2017-6074, n_hldc CVE-2017-2636, XFRM framework
CVE-2017-7184, L2TPv3 CVE-2016-10200).
From an aestethic point of view, enabling this option helps make the
configuration more "declarative".
Closes https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/24681
Use a solid black background when no background image (via
~/.background-image) is provided. In my case this fixes the really
strange behaviour when i3 without a desktop manager starts with the SDDM
login screen as background image.
This eliminates a theoretical risk of ASLR bypass due to the fixed address
mapping used by the legacy vsyscall mechanism. Modern glibc use vdso(7)
instead so there is no loss of functionality, but some programs may fail
to run in this configuration. Programs that fail to run because vsyscall
has been disabled will be logged to dmesg.
For background on virtual syscalls see https://lwn.net/Articles/446528/
Closes https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/25289
The xsession script was called with inconsistent (depending on the
display managers) and wrong parameters. The main reason for this where
the spaces the parameter syntax. In order to fix this the old syntax:
$1 = '<desktop-manager> + <window-manager>'
Will be replaced with a new syntax:
$1 = "<desktop-manager>+<window-manager>"
This assumes that neither "<desktop-manager>" nor "<window-manager>"
contain the "+" character but this shouldn't be a problem.
This patch also fixes the quoting by using double quotes (") instead of
single quotes (') [0].
Last but not least this'll add some comments for the better
understanding of the script.
[0]: https://specifications.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/latest/ar01s06.html
Upstream has decided to make -testing patches private, effectively ceasing
free support for grsecurity/PaX [1]. Consequently, we can no longer
responsibly support grsecurity on NixOS.
This patch turns the kernel and patch expressions into build errors and
adds a warning to the manual, but retains most of the infrastructure, in
an effort to make the transition smoother. For 17.09 all of it should
probably be pruned.
[1]: https://grsecurity.net/passing_the_baton.php
The xen-bridge service accepts the option prefixLength, but does not
use it to set the actual netmask on the bridge. This commit makes
it set the correct netmask.
Right now the `programs.zsh.syntax-highlighting.highlighters` option
lacks appropriate validation which can cause confusing things when
mistyping a higlighter for zsh-syntax-highlighting.
Someone on IRC wanted to boot Fedora from another disk. While I'm not
too familiar with UEFI booting in conjunction with GRUB2 it took some
time to get it to work.
So in order to safe others from frustration I'm adding this as another
example to the extraEntries option.
Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org>
QEMU can allow guests to access more than one host core at a time.
Previously, this had to be done via ad-hoc arguments:
virtualisation.qemu.options = ["-smp 12"];
Now you can simply specify:
virtualisation.cores = 12;
It was asked by @CMCDragonkai to elaborate on that, so let's just do
this by actually providing a code comment.
Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org>
The xrandrHeads option has been there since a long time, so there is no
need to advertise it as a new feature.
Instead, let's focus on just what has changed, which is that we now
assign one head to be primary.
Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org>
Using invalid module options in the submodule isn't very nice, because
it doesn't give very useful errors in case of type mismatch, also we
don't get descriptions of these options as they're effecively
nonexistent to the module system. Another downside of this is that
merging of these options isn't done correctly as well (eg. for
types.lines).
So we now have proper submodules for each xrandrHead and we also use
corcedTo in the type of xrandrHeads so that we can populate the
submodule's "output" option in case a plain string is defined for a list
item.
Instead of silently skipping multiple primary heads, we now have an
assertion, which displays a message and aborts configuration evaluation
appropriately.
Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org>
This changes much of the make-disk-image.nix logic (and thus most NixOS
image building) to use LKL to set up the target directory structure rather
than a Linux VM. The only work we still do in a VM is less IO-heavy stuff
that while still time-consuming, is less of the overall load. The goal is
to kill more of that stuff, but that will require deeper changes to NixOS
activation scripts and switch-to-configuration.pl, and I don't want to
bite off too much at once.
* programs.zsh: factor zsh-syntax-highlighting out into its own module
* programs.zsh.syntax-highlighting: add `highlighters` option
* programs.zsh: document BC break introduced by moving zsh-syntax-completion into its own module
This is currently our default display manager, so I'm adding this to the
"tested" job as well to ensure we don't ship broken revisions where X is
most likely not working.
The test uses a custom SLiM theme that's specifically tailored for good
OCR results (mainly white background and black fonts without anything
else), because our default NixOS theme has a very small contrast between
background and fonts in some places.
Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org>
The main change here is a patch of SLiM to tread a log file of
/dev/stderr specially in that it now uses std::cerr instead of a file
for logging.
This allows us to set the logfile to stderr in NixOS for the generated
SLiM configuration file and we now get logging to the systemd journal.
Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org>
* programs.zsh: add enableOhMyZsh option to automate setup of oh-my-zsh in global zshrc
* programs.zsh: make oh-my-zsh plugins configurable
* programs.zsh: add ohMyZshCustom option
* programs.zsh: add ohMyZshTheme option
* programs.zsh: applying minor fixes to evaluate expressions properly
* programs.zsh: fix ordering of oh-my-zsh config and execution
* programs.zsh: move all oh-my-zsh params into its own scope named programs.zsh.oh-my-zsh
The idea is to provide a convenient way to enable most vanilla hardening
features in one go. The hardened profile, then, will serve as a place for
features that enhance security but cannot be enabled for all deployments
because they interfere with legitimate use cases (e.g., using ptrace to
debug problems in an already running process).
Closes https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/24680
This reverts commit 6b7c5ba535.
Unfortunately it seems like this broke slim, lightdm and gdm (see #25068
and #23264). This is already reverted in the 17.03 branch (99dfb6d).
TODO: We need tests for slim and lightdm and fix the test for gdm
(failing since 2016-10-26) to prevent such breakage in the future.
- adds distro dependency
- buildbot nodaemon in service module
- fakerepo for module tests
- service module parameter fixup
- tested on nixos
- tested on darwin
This has surfaced since d990aa7163.
The "simpleUefiGummiboot" installer test fails since this commit,
because that commit introduced a small check to verify whether the store
was altered.
While installing NixOS for the first time, the store is usually in
/mnt/nix/store and without the read-only bind mount that's preventing
programs from altering the store.
So after nixos-install is done creating the system closure and setting
it as the active system profile, the bootloader is written from the
closure inside the chroot. The systemd-boot-builder is invoked during
this step, which adds .pyc files for various Python modules of the
Python 3 store path, which in turn invalidates the hash of the Python 3
store path itself.
At the time the system is booted up again, the nix-store is verified and
fails with something like this:
path /nix/store/zvm545rqc4d97caqq9h7344bnd06jhzb-python3-3.5.3 was
modified! expected hash
b2c975f4b8d197443fbb09690fb3f6545e165dd44c9309d7d6df2fce0579ebeb, got
bccca19f39c9d26d857ccf1fb72818b2b817967e6d497a25a1283e36ed0acf01
Running the interpreter with the -B argument prevents Python from
writing those byte code files:
https://docs.python.org/3/using/cmdline.html#cmdoption-B
Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org>
This reverts commit c2b56626f1.
It broke creating the manual. I suspect the descriptions are
auto-wrapped by <para> and </para>.
We've been through this already in 3af715af90.
/cc #24978, @zraexy, @Mic92.
The key distinction I'm drawing is that there's a component that deals
with the store of the machine being built, and another component for
the store building it. The inner part of it assumes nothing from the
builder (doesn't need chroot or root powers) so it can run comfortably
inside a Nix build, as well as nixos-rebuild. I have some upcoming work
that will use that to significantly speed up and streamline image builds
for NixOS, especially on virtualized hosts like EC2, but it's also a
reasonable speedup on native hosts.
bluez no longer recommends spawning "hciconfig <device> up" from a udev rule as
the main bluez daemon now supports automatically enabling power for all devices.
Reference: http://www.bluez.org/release-of-bluez-5-35/
This change fixes two major issues:
1. If you don't use SIGQUIT to stop Plex it will corrupt its own
database :(
2. Newer versions of Plex keep metadata in the
`com.plexapp.plugins.library.db` database. This is the file that
we copy into `/var/lib/plex/.skeleton`. If we copy the empty
database on top of this one the user will lose their entire
library metadata. This change skips the copy if the file
already exists.
* google-cloud-sdk: 150.0.0 -> 151.0.0
- gce/create-gce.sh: rewrite using nix-shell shebang and bash
- allows to run the script without being the same directory
- nix-shell install google-cloud-sdk
- some shellcheck cleanups and scripting best practice
- gce/create-gce.sh: do not clobber NIX_PATH: this allows NIX_PATH to be overwritten to build a different release
- gce/create-gce.sh: remove legacy hydra option
This allows gitweb to expand '~' in /etc/gitconfig. Without a $HOME
variable, it fails to list any projects and instead show the text
"No such projects found" in the UI.
Setting $HOME to the gitweb project root seems like a sensible value.
This reverts commit 0a6a06346a.
The commit replaced the text to search for from ALICE to BOB, because
our OCR detection only caught "BOB FOOBAR" but missed "ALICE FOOBAR"
completely.
With the improvements to our OCR system this no longer is the case and
the test passes successfully with this reverted.
Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org>
Cc: @shlevy
First of all, we're now using ImageMagick to improve the screenshot so
that Tesseract has an esier time to recognize the text. The resulting
image of this post-processing is a scaled up black-and-white version
with the backgrounds almost entirely removed and the text edges a bit
blurred, so the screen shots now more or less resemble an image from a
scanner rather. This is what Tesseract is trained for by default.
As mentioned in the previous commit we now also use Tesseract 4, which
further improves the quality of text recognition.
I've spent countless hours just to test different postprocessing
variants and testing what works best for our tests and this is the one
that worked best so far. It's certainly not perfect and I'd like to
avoid the scaling step but we're way better off than before.
In addition to this, the OCR process is now done without an intermediate
file, solely using pipes.
I've tested this using the following VM tests which have OCR enabled:
* nixos/tests/chromium.nix -A stable
* nixos/tests/emacs-daemon.nix
* nixos/tests/installer.nix -A luksroot
* nixos/tests/lightdm.nix
* nixos/tests/plasma5.nix
* nixos/tests/sddm.nix
All of the tests still succeed and comparing some of the recognition
results to the earlier results it now also detects a lot more text than
before this commit.
Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org>
I've removed that attribute in 68bc260ca2,
because the language files no longer were distributed as seperate files,
but if we for example only want to use the English training data, the
closure size of Tesseract gets quite large (around 1.2 GB), which is a
bit much just to be able to run NixOS VM tests.
For this reason I've also switched the VM tests back to using only the
English language.
Tested using the following VM tests (the ones that have OCR enabled) on
x86_64-linux:
* nixos/tests/chromium.nix -A stable
* nixos/tests/emacs-daemon.nix
* nixos/tests/installer.nix -A luksroot
* nixos/tests/lightdm.nix
* nixos/tests/plasma5.nix
* nixos/tests/sddm.nix
Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org>
Release notes are available at https://www.openssh.com/txt/release-7.5.
Mostly a bugfix release, no major backwards-incompatible changes.
Remove deprecated `UsePrivilegeSeparation` option,
which is now mandatory.
gyre-fonts provides high-quality TrueType substitutes for standard PostScript
fonts. Unlike most other distributions, NixOS does not install Ghostscript and
its Type 1 fonts by default, so we must get the standard fonts elsewhere.
For whatever reason, the OCR code is not detecting ALICE but is BOB.
OCR output from login screen (blank lines omitted):
> Session none + icewm
> 08:41 <
> Thursday, April 6, 2017
> BOB FOOBAR
> Select your user and enter password
The LUKS header can be on another device (e.g. a USB stick). In my case
it can take up to two seconds until the partition on my USB stick is
available (i.e. the decryption fails without this patch). This will also
remove some redundancy by providing the shell function `wait_target` and
slightly improve the output (one "." per second and a success/failure
indication after 10 seconds instead of always printing "ok").
Restarting them is useless since the filesystem is already
checked. Worse, restarting them causes the filesystem to be unmounted.
Also remove an override for systemd-rkill@.service which no longer
exists.
This reduces the time window during which IP addresses are gone during
switch-to-configuration. A complication is that with stopIfChanged =
true, preStop would try to delete the *new* IP addresses rather than
the old one (since the preStop script now runs after the switch to the
new configuration). So we now record the actually configured addresses
in /run/nixos/network/addresses/<interface>. This is more robust in
any case.
Issue https://github.com/NixOS/nixops/issues/640.
Unfortunately, somewhere between 16.09 and 17.03, paravirtualized
instances stopped working. They hang at the pv-grub prompt
("grubdom>"). I tried reverting to a 4.4 kernel, reverting kernel
compression from xz to bzip2 (even though pv-grub is supposed to
support xz), and reverting the only change to initrd generation
(5a8147479e). Nothing worked so I'm
giving up.
Docker socket is world writable. This means any user on the system is
able to invoke docker command. (Which is equal to having a root access
to the machine.)
This commit makes socket group-writable and owned by docker group.
Inspired by
https://github.com/docker/docker/blob/master/contrib/init/systemd/docker.socket
There was one confusing recent failure of this:
http://cache.nixos.org/log/myla8bc17j8spmifdxmrz9jswxwsf5w6-vm-test-run-hibernate.drv
I don't have any real ideas on what could cause the problem but there is
at least one theoretical one: the system starts hibernating before the
listener process manages to open the TCP port for listening, and it can't
open it after resuming because not enough pages from the netcat binary
have been paged in (and as the 9p filesystem holding it is now toast,
they can't be loaded anymore).
Commit 75f131da02 added
`chown 'nginx:nginx' '/var/lib/acme'` to the pre-start script,
but since it doesn't use `chown -R`, it is possible that there
are older existing subdirs (like `acme-challenge`)
that are owned to `root` from before that commit went it.
AFAICT, this issue only occurs when sshd is socket-activated. It turns
out that the preStart script's stdout and stderr are connected to the
socket, not just the main command's. So explicitly connect stderr to
the journal and redirect stdout to stderr.
This reverts commit 1a74eedd07. It
breaks NixOps, which expects that
rm -f /etc/ssh/ssh_host_ed25519_key*
systemctl restart sshd
cat /etc/ssh/ssh_host_ed25519_key.pub
works.
When a user or group is revived, this allows it to be allocated the
UID/GID it had before.
A consequence is that UIDs and GIDs are no longer reused.
Fixes#24010.
In order to use qt5ct (Qt5 Configuration Tool) to configure Qt5
settings (theme, font, icons, etc.) under DE/WM without Qt
integration, the environment variable QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME should be
set to "qt5ct".
It can be done automatically by this module, or by setting the
variable explicitly in the user or in the system configuration.
This has surfaced since f803270b7e.
The commit bumped bash to version 4.4, which caused to change the order
of --subst-var flags in substituteAll, which this test was relying on,
because it added a @shell@ to boot.initrd.postMountCommands.
Our substituter is currently working a bit like this:
original.replace('@var1@', 'val1').replace('@var2@', 'val2')...
Unfortunately, this means that if @var2@ occurs within @var1@ it is
replaced by the new value, so the order of the substvars actually
matter. I highly doubt that we want a behaviour like this and I'm
wondering why it didn't occur to me as a problem while writing the
initial implementation of the VirtualBox tests.
Whether to get rid of this and disallowing substitution of substvars
within substvars is another topic which I think needs discussion in a
different place.
As for now, I'm using stdenv.shell, because the closure size of this
should fit within the initrd, so it's fine especially because it's just
a test.
Tested with the net-hostonlyif and systemd-detect-virt tests and they
both succeed with this change.
Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org>
Reported-by: @globin on IRC
Adds services.longview.{apiKeyFile,mysqlPasswordFile} options as
alternatives to apiKey and mysqlPassword, which still work, but are
deprecated with a warning message.
Related to #24288.
Having fixed the Google Compute Engine image build process's copying
of store paths in PR #24264, I ran `nixos-rebuild --upgrade switch`...
and the GCE image broke again, because it sets the NixOS configuration
option for the sysctl variable `kernel.yama.ptrace_scope` to
`mkDefault "1"`, i.e., with override priority 1000, and now the
`sysctl` module sets the same option to `mkDefault "0"` (this was
changed in commit 86721a5f78).
This patch raises the override priority of the Google Compute Engine
image configuration's definition of the Yama sysctl option to 500
(still lower than the priority of an unmodified option definition).
I have tested that this patch allows the Google Compute Engine image
to again build successfully for me.
And adopt the tests to add an interface and remove it again.
It should work when deactivating rstp, it will not work when activating
rstp for the first bridge as then the userspace daemon is not yet
available. But once one bridge is active with stp, it should work with
the reload for any further bridge.
Fixes#21745. Also see #22547.
Currently, if you try to build a NixOS config including channel.nix, e.g.:
nix-build -I nixpkgs=. -I nixos-config=nixos/modules/installer/cd-dvd/installation-cd-minimal.nix nixos -A config.system.build.isoImage
twice in a row, you end up with two different build results. This is
caused by the 'result' symlink of the first build affecting the channel
contents of the second build.
If we use filterSource with a predicate that ignores the 'result'
symlinks, the problem is gone. Do the same thing for VIM/Emacs
swap/backup files to avoid even more 'spurious' rebuilds.
Additionally, filter out the '.git' directory at the same time, as we
'rm -rf' it from the result anyway. This avoids a considerable amount of
unnecessary file I/O copying and deleting the .git directory.
In `nixos/modules/virtualisation/google-compute-image.nix`, copy store
paths with `rsync -a` rather than `cp -prd`, because `rsync` seems
better able to handle the hard-links that may be present in the store,
whereas `cp` may fail to copy them.
I have tested that the Google Compute Engine image builds successfully
for me with this patch, whereas it did not without this patch.
This is the same fix applied for Azure images in commit
097ef6e435d5b3fcde92e67abbaaaaaf05c0723d.
Fixes#23973.
The inability to run strace or gdb is the kind of
developer-unfriendliness that we're used to from OS X, let's not do it
on NixOS.
This restriction can be re-enabled by setting
boot.kernel.sysctl."kernel.yama.ptrace_scope" = 1;
It might be nice to have a NixOS module for enabling hardened defaults.
Xref #14392.
Thanks @abbradar.
kimpanel does not show installed IBus engines or allow switching input
methods. kimpanel does show configured keyboard layouts through kxkb, so I
believe there is some problem communicating with IBus. No error messages are
produced in the log and I have been unable to discover the cause. I have no
intention of continuing to work on kimpanel at this time, so it should be
disabled. The GTK+ 3-based panel provided by IBus is perfectly serviceable in
the interim.
This reverts commit b806e25d65.
This seems to push Hydra's memory usage out of the roof fail nixos
evaluating with:
Too many heap sections: Increase MAXHINCR or MAX_HEAP_SECTS
Let's revert this for now. It's not a big deal at all since the
nixpkgs-unstable jobset is still building the packages.
In the absence of XCURSOR_PATH, the function XcursorLibraryPath
in libXcursor will return a hardcoded value unsuitable for NixOS.
Some desktops as well as display managers in NixOS currently do
set XCURSOR_PATH, but there are combinations where neither does
(e.g. SDDM+XFCE), resulting in no cursor themes being available.
The new definition if XCURSOR_PATH is effectively the same as what
KDE's startkde currently does.
Fixes issue #21442.
* The module uses `stringSplit` but it should be `splitString`
* `rmilter` doesn't actually support binding to multiple sockets.
Therefore, bind to the last one specified if `socketActivation` is
`false`.
I also believe there is a bug in this module related to systemd
`ListenStream`. If `socketActivation` is true, Postfix gets
connection timeouts trying to connect to one of the `ListenStream`
inet addresses. I don't know enough about `ListenStream` passing
connections on to `fd:3` to understand what's going on.
These changes are in production (with `socketActivation = false`) via NixOps.
This `tsocks` wrapper leaks DNS requests to clearnet, meanwhile Tor comes with
`torsocks` which doesn't.
Previous commits to this file state that all of this still useful somehow.
Assuming that it's true, at least let's not confuse users with two different tools
and don't clash with the `tsocks` binary from nixpkgs by disabling this by default.
Run Firefox inside an XTerm, it doesn't crash mysteriously this way.
Also try opening developer tools and checking that Firefox doesn't
crash in the process.
This option was initially added to make it easier to use an
up-to-date list, but now that we always use an up-to-date list
from upstream, there's no point to the option.
From now on, you can either use a resolver listed by dnscrypt
upstream or a custom resolver.
Removes tcpOnly and ephemeralKeys: reifying them as nixos
options adds little beyond improved discoverability. Until
17.09 we'll automatically translate these options into extraArgs
for convenience.
Unless reifying an option is necessary for conditional
computation or greatly simplifies configuration/reduces risk of
misconfiguration, it should go into extraArgs instead.
* Moved the wordpress sources derivation to the attribute pkgs.wordpress. This
makes it easier to override.
* Also introduce the `package` option for the wordpress virtual host config which
defaults to pkgs.wordpress.
* Also fixed the test in nixos/tests/wordpress.nix.
The Infinality bytecode interpreter is removed in favor of the new v40 TrueType
interpreter. In the past, the Infinality interpreter provided support for
ClearType-style hinting instructions while the default interpreter (then v35)
provided support only for original TrueType-style instructions. The v40
interpreter corrects this deficiency, so the Infinality interpreter is no longer
necessary.
To understand why the Infinality interpreter is no longer necessary, we should
understand how ClearType differs from TrueType and how the v40 interpreter
works. The following is a summary of information available on the FreeType
website [1] mixed with my own editorializing.
TrueType instructions use horizontal and vertical hints to improve glyph
rendering. Before TrueType, fonts were only vertically hinted; horizontal hints
improved rendering by snapping stems to pixel boundaries. Horizontal hinting is
a risk because it can significantly distort glyph shapes and kerning. Extensive
testing at different resolutions is needed to perfect the TrueType
hints. Microsoft invested significant effort to do this with its "Core fonts for
the Web" project, but few other typefaces have seen this level of attention.
With the advent of subpixel rendering, the effective horizontal resolution of
most displays increased significantly. ClearType eschews horizontal hinting in
favor of horizontal supersampling. Most fonts are designed for the Microsoft
bytecode interpreter, which implements a compatibility mode with
TrueType-style (horizontal and vertical) instructions. However, applying the
full horizontal hints to subpixel-rendered fonts leads to color fringes and
inconsistent stem widths. The Infinality interpreter implements several
techniques to mitigate these problems, going so far as to embed font- and
glyph-specific hacks in the interpreter. On the other hand, the v40 interpreter
ignores the horizontal hinting instructions so that glyphs render as they are
intended to on the Microsoft interpreter. Without the horizontal hints, the
problems of glyph and kerning distortion, color fringes, and inconsistent stem
widths--the problems the Infinality interpreter was created to solve--simply
don't occur in the first place.
There are also security concerns which motivate removing the Infinality patches.
Although there is an updated version of the Infinality interpreter for FreeType
2.7, the lack of a consistent upstream maintainer is a security concern. The
interpreter is a Turing-complete virtual machine which has had security
vulnerabilities in the past. While the default interpreter is used in billions
of devices and is maintained by an active developer, the Infinality interpreter
is neither scrutinized nor maintained. We will probably never know if there are
defects in the Infinality interpreter, and if they were discovered they would
likely never be fixed. I do not think that is an acceptable situtation for a
core library like FreeType.
Dropping the Infinality patches means that font rendering will be less
customizable. I think this is an acceptable trade-off. The Infinality
interpreter made many compromises to mitigate the problems with horizontal
hinting; the main purpose of customization is to tailor these compromises to the
user's preferences. The new interpreter does not have to make these compromises
because it renders fonts as their designers intended, so this level of
customization is not necessary.
The Infinality-associated patches are also removed from cairo. These patches
only set the default rendering options in case they aren't set though
Fontconfig. On NixOS, the rendering options are always set in Fontconfig, so
these patches never actually did anything for us!
The Fontconfig test suite is patched to account for a quirk in the way PCF fonts
are named.
The fontconfig option `hintstyle` is no longer configurable in NixOS. This
option selects the TrueType interpreter; the v40 interpreter is `hintslight` and
the older v35 interpreter is `hintmedium` or `hintfull` (which have actually
always been the same thing). The setting may still be changed through the
`localConf` option or by creating a user Fontconfig file.
Users with HiDPI displays should probably disable hinting and antialiasing: at
best they have no visible effect.
The fontconfig-ultimate settings are still available in NixOS, but they are no
longer the default. They still work, but their main purpose is to set rendering
quirks which are no longer necessary and may actually be
detrimental (e.g. setting `hintfull` for some fonts). Also, the vast array of
font substitutions provided is not an appropriate default; the default setting
should be to give the user the font they asked for.
[1]. https://www.freetype.org/freetype2/docs/subpixel-hinting.html
Added extra config options to allow reading passwords from file rather
than the world-readable nix store.
The full config.json file is created at service startup.
Relevant to #18881
Newer versions of DNSCrypt proxy *can* cache lookups (via
plugin); make the wording more neutral wrt. why one might want
to run the proxy in a forwarding setup.
1) The forking behavior of `buildbot start` is temporarily broken for
mysterious reasons that I'm still looking into
2) Let systemd do the forking: no point in using two different process
startup wait loops
The nixbld group belongs to nix-daemon and you really don't want to be
in it. If you are in it, nix-daemon will kill your processes when you
least expect it :)
It'd be better to do the update as an unprivileged user; for
now, we do our best to minimize the surface available. We
filter mount syscalls to prevent the process from undoing the fs
isolation.
Resolve download.dnscrypt.org using hostip with a bootstrap
resolver (hard-coded to Google Public DNS for now), to ensure
that we can get an up-to-date resolver list without working name
service lookups. This makes us more robust to the upstream
resolver list getting out of date and other DNS configuration
problems.
We use the curl --resolver switch to allow https cert validation
(we'd need to do --insecure if using just the ip addr). Note
that we don't rely on https for security but it's nice to have
it ...
Use mkMerge to make the code a little more ergonomic and easier
to follow (to my eyes, anyway ...). Also take the opportunity
to do some minor cleanups & tweaks, but no functional changes.
After the change of the bonding options, the examples were not quite correct.
The diff is over-the top because the new `let` needs everything indented.
Also add a small docstring to the `networkd` attr in the networking test.
Set `networking.networkmanager.wifi.macAddress` or `networking.networkmanager.ethernet.macAddress`
to one of these values to change your macAddress.
* "XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX": set the MAC address of the interface.
* "permanent": use the permanent MAC address of the device.
* "preserve": don’t change the MAC address of the device upon activation.
* "random": generate a randomized value upon each connect.
* "stable": generate a stable, hashed MAC address.
See https://blogs.gnome.org/thaller/2016/08/26/mac-address-spoofing-in-networkmanager-1-4-0/ for more information
