nixpkgs/nixos/modules/services/system/nscd.nix
Florian Klink fbfe2907af nixos/nscd: use nsncd by default
As announced in the NixOS 22.11 release notes, 23.05 will switch NixOS
to using nsncd (a non-caching reimplementation in Rust) as NSS lookup
dispatcher, instead of the buggy and deprecated glibc-provided nscd.

If you need to switch back, set `services.nscd.enableNsncd = false`, but
please open an issue in nixpkgs so your issue can be fixed.
2023-02-02 11:07:25 +01:00

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{ config, lib, pkgs, ... }:
with lib;
let
nssModulesPath = config.system.nssModules.path;
cfg = config.services.nscd;
in
{
###### interface
options = {
services.nscd = {
enable = mkOption {
type = types.bool;
default = true;
description = lib.mdDoc ''
Whether to enable the Name Service Cache Daemon.
Disabling this is strongly discouraged, as this effectively disables NSS Lookups
from all non-glibc NSS modules, including the ones provided by systemd.
'';
};
enableNsncd = mkOption {
type = types.bool;
default = true;
description = lib.mdDoc ''
Whether to use nsncd instead of nscd from glibc.
This is a nscd-compatible daemon, that proxies lookups, without any caching.
Using nscd from glibc is discouraged.
'';
};
user = mkOption {
type = types.str;
default = "nscd";
description = lib.mdDoc ''
User account under which nscd runs.
'';
};
group = mkOption {
type = types.str;
default = "nscd";
description = lib.mdDoc ''
User group under which nscd runs.
'';
};
config = mkOption {
type = types.lines;
default = builtins.readFile ./nscd.conf;
description = lib.mdDoc ''
Configuration to use for Name Service Cache Daemon.
Only used in case glibc-nscd is used.
'';
};
package = mkOption {
type = types.package;
default =
if pkgs.stdenv.hostPlatform.libc == "glibc"
then pkgs.stdenv.cc.libc.bin
else pkgs.glibc.bin;
defaultText = lib.literalExpression ''
if pkgs.stdenv.hostPlatform.libc == "glibc"
then pkgs.stdenv.cc.libc.bin
else pkgs.glibc.bin;
'';
description = lib.mdDoc ''
package containing the nscd binary to be used by the service.
Ignored when enableNsncd is set to true.
'';
};
};
};
###### implementation
config = mkIf cfg.enable {
environment.etc."nscd.conf".text = cfg.config;
users.users.${cfg.user} = {
isSystemUser = true;
group = cfg.group;
};
users.groups.${cfg.group} = { };
systemd.services.nscd =
{
description = "Name Service Cache Daemon"
+ lib.optionalString cfg.enableNsncd " (nsncd)";
before = [ "nss-lookup.target" "nss-user-lookup.target" ];
wants = [ "nss-lookup.target" "nss-user-lookup.target" ];
wantedBy = [ "multi-user.target" ];
requiredBy = [ "nss-lookup.target" "nss-user-lookup.target" ];
environment = { LD_LIBRARY_PATH = nssModulesPath; };
restartTriggers = lib.optionals (!cfg.enableNsncd) ([
config.environment.etc.hosts.source
config.environment.etc."nsswitch.conf".source
config.environment.etc."nscd.conf".source
] ++ optionals config.users.mysql.enable [
config.environment.etc."libnss-mysql.cfg".source
config.environment.etc."libnss-mysql-root.cfg".source
]);
# In some configurations, nscd needs to be started as root; it will
# drop privileges after all the NSS modules have read their
# configuration files. So prefix the ExecStart command with "!" to
# prevent systemd from dropping privileges early. See ExecStart in
# systemd.service(5). We use a static user, because some NSS modules
# sill want to read their configuration files after the privilege drop
# and so users can set the owner of those files to the nscd user.
serviceConfig =
{
ExecStart =
if cfg.enableNsncd then "${pkgs.nsncd}/bin/nsncd"
else "!@${cfg.package}/bin/nscd nscd";
Type = if cfg.enableNsncd then "notify" else "forking";
User = cfg.user;
Group = cfg.group;
RemoveIPC = true;
PrivateTmp = true;
NoNewPrivileges = true;
RestrictSUIDSGID = true;
ProtectSystem = "strict";
ProtectHome = "read-only";
RuntimeDirectory = "nscd";
PIDFile = "/run/nscd/nscd.pid";
Restart = "always";
ExecReload =
lib.optionals (!cfg.enableNsncd) [
"${cfg.package}/bin/nscd --invalidate passwd"
"${cfg.package}/bin/nscd --invalidate group"
"${cfg.package}/bin/nscd --invalidate hosts"
];
};
};
};
}