nixos/nscd: add enableNsncd option

When set, this switches from using nscd to using nsncd.

It's a protocol-compatible, non-caching and much less flaky alternative.
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Florian Klink 2022-10-07 10:53:14 +02:00
parent 308548f253
commit aee40c2d8a

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@ -27,6 +27,15 @@ in
'';
};
enableNsncd = mkOption {
type = types.bool;
default = false;
description = lib.mdDoc ''
Whether to use nsncd instead of nscd.
This is a nscd-compatible daemon, that proxies lookups, without any caching.
'';
};
user = mkOption {
type = types.str;
default = "nscd";
@ -60,7 +69,10 @@ in
then pkgs.stdenv.cc.libc.bin
else pkgs.glibc.bin;
'';
description = lib.mdDoc "package containing the nscd binary to be used by the service";
description = lib.mdDoc ''
package containing the nscd binary to be used by the service.
Ignored when enableNsncd is set to true.
'';
};
};
@ -82,7 +94,8 @@ in
systemd.services.nscd =
{
description = "Name Service Cache Daemon";
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" ];
@ -91,14 +104,14 @@ in
environment = { LD_LIBRARY_PATH = nssModulesPath; };
restartTriggers = [
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
@ -109,8 +122,10 @@ in
# and so users can set the owner of those files to the nscd user.
serviceConfig =
{
ExecStart = "!@${cfg.package}/bin/nscd nscd";
Type = "forking";
ExecStart =
if cfg.enableNsncd then "${pkgs.nsncd}/bin/nsncd"
else "!@${cfg.package}/bin/nscd nscd";
Type = if cfg.enableNsncd then "notify" else "forking";
User = cfg.user;
Group = cfg.group;
RemoveIPC = true;
@ -123,13 +138,12 @@ in
PIDFile = "/run/nscd/nscd.pid";
Restart = "always";
ExecReload =
[
lib.optionals (!cfg.enableNsncd) [
"${cfg.package}/bin/nscd --invalidate passwd"
"${cfg.package}/bin/nscd --invalidate group"
"${cfg.package}/bin/nscd --invalidate hosts"
];
};
};
};
}