whonix: place "allow all" sudo configuration only build time

qubes-core-agent will provide appropriate file later so do not conflict
with it.
pull/1/head
Marek Marczykowski-Górecki 10 years ago
parent a91429751d
commit 43e319b562

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../wheezy+whonix/09_cleanup_post.sh

@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ user::rwx
group::r-x
other::---
# file: etc/sudoers.d/qubes
# file: etc/sudoers.d/whonix-build
# owner: root
# group: root
user::r--

@ -1,46 +0,0 @@
user ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL
# WTF?! Have you lost your mind?!
#
# In Qubes VMs there is no point in isolating the root account from
# the user account. This is because all the user data are already
# accessible from the user account, so there is no direct benefit for
# the attacker if she could escalate to root (there is even no benefit
# in trying to install some persistent rootkits, as the VM's root
# filesystem modifications are lost upon each start of a VM).
#
# One might argue that some hypothetical attacks against the
# hypervisor or the few daemons/backends in Dom0 (so VM escape
# attacks) most likely would require root access in the VM to trigger
# the attack.
#
# That's true, but mere existence of such a bug in the hypervisor or
# Dom0 that could be exploited by a malicious VM, no matter whether
# requiring user, root, or even kernel access in the VM, would be
# FATAL. In such situation (if there was such a bug in Xen) there
# really is no comforting that: "oh, but the mitigating factor was
# that the attacker needed root in VM!" We're not M$, and we're not
# gonna BS our users that there are mitigating factors in that case,
# and for sure, root/user isolation is not a mitigating factor.
#
# Because, really, if somebody could find and exploit a bug in the Xen
# hypervisor -- so far there have been only one (!) publicly disclosed
# exploitable bug in the Xen hypervisor from a VM, found in 2008,
# incidentally by one of the Qubes developers (RW) -- then it would be
# highly unlikely if that person couldn't also found a user-to-root
# escalation in VM (which as we know from history of UNIX/Linux
# happens all the time).
#
# At the same time allowing for easy user-to-root escalation in a VM
# is simply convenient for users, especially for update installation.
#
# Currently this still doesn't work as expected, because some idotic
# piece of software called PolKit uses own set of policies. We're
# planning to address this in Beta 2. (Why PolKit is an idiocy? Do a
# simple experiment: start 'xinput test' in one xterm, running as
# user, then open some app that uses PolKit and asks for root
# password, e.g. gpk-update-viewer -- observe how all the keystrokes
# with root password you enter into the "secure" PolKit dialog box can
# be seen by the xinput program...)
#
# joanna.

@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ user::rwx
group::r-x
other::---
# file: etc/sudoers.d/qubes
# file: etc/sudoers.d/whonix-build
# owner: root
# group: root
user::r--

@ -1,46 +0,0 @@
user ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL
# WTF?! Have you lost your mind?!
#
# In Qubes VMs there is no point in isolating the root account from
# the user account. This is because all the user data are already
# accessible from the user account, so there is no direct benefit for
# the attacker if she could escalate to root (there is even no benefit
# in trying to install some persistent rootkits, as the VM's root
# filesystem modifications are lost upon each start of a VM).
#
# One might argue that some hypothetical attacks against the
# hypervisor or the few daemons/backends in Dom0 (so VM escape
# attacks) most likely would require root access in the VM to trigger
# the attack.
#
# That's true, but mere existence of such a bug in the hypervisor or
# Dom0 that could be exploited by a malicious VM, no matter whether
# requiring user, root, or even kernel access in the VM, would be
# FATAL. In such situation (if there was such a bug in Xen) there
# really is no comforting that: "oh, but the mitigating factor was
# that the attacker needed root in VM!" We're not M$, and we're not
# gonna BS our users that there are mitigating factors in that case,
# and for sure, root/user isolation is not a mitigating factor.
#
# Because, really, if somebody could find and exploit a bug in the Xen
# hypervisor -- so far there have been only one (!) publicly disclosed
# exploitable bug in the Xen hypervisor from a VM, found in 2008,
# incidentally by one of the Qubes developers (RW) -- then it would be
# highly unlikely if that person couldn't also found a user-to-root
# escalation in VM (which as we know from history of UNIX/Linux
# happens all the time).
#
# At the same time allowing for easy user-to-root escalation in a VM
# is simply convenient for users, especially for update installation.
#
# Currently this still doesn't work as expected, because some idotic
# piece of software called PolKit uses own set of policies. We're
# planning to address this in Beta 2. (Why PolKit is an idiocy? Do a
# simple experiment: start 'xinput test' in one xterm, running as
# user, then open some app that uses PolKit and asks for root
# password, e.g. gpk-update-viewer -- observe how all the keystrokes
# with root password you enter into the "secure" PolKit dialog box can
# be seen by the xinput program...)
#
# joanna.

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#!/bin/sh
# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Source external scripts
# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
. ${SCRIPTSDIR}/vars.sh
. ./umount_kill.sh >/dev/null
# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Configurations
# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
if [ "${VERBOSE}" -ge 2 -o "${DEBUG}" == "1" ]; then
set -x
else
set -e
fi
rm -f "${INSTALLDIR}/etc/sudoers.d/whonix-build"
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