Hardening mode in VirtualBox is quite restrictive and on some systems it
could make sense to disable hardening mode, especially while we still
have issues with hostonly networking and other issues[TM] we don't know
or haven't tested yet.
Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org>
We only need to have setuid-root wrappers for VBox{Headless,SDL} and
VirtualBox, otherwise VBoxManage will run as root and NOT drop
privileges!
Fixes#5283.
Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org>
The current nixos module for VirtualBox unconditionally configures a vboxnet0
network interface at boot. This may be undesired, especially when the user wants
to manage network interfaces in a centralized manner.
VirtualBox with hardening support requires the main binaries to be
setuid root. Using VBOX_WITH_RUNPATH, we ensure that the RPATHs are
pointing to the libexec directory and we also need to unset
VBOX_WITH_ORIGIN to make sure that the build system is actually setting
those RPATHs.
The hardened.patch implements two things:
* Set the binary directory to the setuid-wrappers dir so that
VboxSVC calls them instead of the binaries from the store path. The
reason behind this is because nothing in the Nix store can have the
setuid flag.
* Excempt /nix/store from the group permission check, because while it
is group-writeable indeed it also has the sticky bit set (and also
the whole store is mounted read-only on most NixOS systems), so we're
checking on that as well.
Right now, the hardened.patch uses /nix/store and /var/setuid-wrappers
directly, so someone would ever want to change those on a NixOS system,
please provide a patch to set those paths on build time. However, for
simplicity, it's best to do it when we _really_ need it.
Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org>
We will simply rename the previous module and add a warning whenever the
module is included directly, pointing the user to the right option and
also enable it as well (in case somebody has missed the option and is
wondering why VirtualBox doesn't work anymore).
Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org>
aszlig
ambrop7@gmail.com