The default, which is /tmp, has a few issues associated with it:
One being that it makes it easy for users on the system to spoof a
PostgreSQL server if it's not running, causing applications to connect
to their provided sockets instead of just failing to connect.
Another one is that it makes sandboxing of PostgreSQL and other services
unnecessarily difficult. This is already the case if only PrivateTmp is
used in a systemd service, so in order for such a service to be able to
connect to PostgreSQL, a bind mount needs to be done from /tmp to some
other path, so the service can access it. This pretty much defeats the
whole purpose of PrivateTmp.
We regularily run into issues with this in the past already (one example
would be https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/24317) and with the new
systemd-confinement mode upcoming in
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/57519, it makes it even more
tedious to sandbox services.
I've tested this change against all the postgresql NixOS VM tests and
they still succeed and I also grepped through the source tree to replace
other occasions where we might have /tmp hardcoded. Luckily there were
very few occasions.
Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@nix.build>
Cc: @ocharles, @thoughtpolice, @danbst
We don't need gnome-bluetooth because its executables
path is already hardcoded into the contractor file, as that's
the only place it is needed.
Don't think we need gnome-power-manager either.
Also add programs like geary to removePackagesByName.
* zoneminder: fix initial database creation
Move initialDatabases directive from the 'ensureUsers' scope to the correct outer 'mysql' one.
* zoneminder: Fix mysql username to match unix username
When database.createLocally is used, a mysql user is created with the ensureUsers directive.
It ensures that the unix user with the name provided exists and can connect to MySQL through socket.
Thus, the MySQL username used by php/perl scripts must match the unix user owning the server PID.
This patch sets the default mysql user to 'zoneminder' instead of 'zmuser'.
- Remove xdg-desktop-menu-dummy.menu kbuildsycoca5. Not sure why we
need it but it is a pretty big failure if it exists.
See issue #56176.
- plasma: clear ksycoca cache before building
This is needed to pick up on software removed since the last cache
update. Otherwise it hangs around as zombies forever (or until the
cache is cleared).
- Add the above + the icon cache cleanup to plasmaSetup
This will be run for the logged in user on each nixos-rebuild.
Unfortunately this only works if you are managing software through
nixos-rebuild (nix-env users need to run this manually, otherwise
log out and log back in).
I think the bepasty nixos service has been broken since c539c02, since
bepasty changed from using python2.7 to python3.7. This updates the
nixos module to refer to the matching python version.
