Let a user say it never becomes root, so the agents' account can be judged
A declaration may now state root: never on a user (novox/hq ADR 0266), and a health statement carries it under contract 3; the judging follows.
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@@ -383,8 +383,25 @@ type User struct {
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// has it not. On the account rather than on the unit, because it is the account's: two units of
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// one account cannot disagree about it, and undeclaring one of them must not stop the other.
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Linger *bool `json:"linger,omitempty"`
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// Root says whether this account may become root without a person (novox/hq ADR 0266). "never"
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// is the agents' own account: the login an agent session runs as on a machine where it must not
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// reach root by itself. Empty asserts nothing, as Shell's does.
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//
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// **A statement the engine judges, never one it acts on.** The apply gives an account it creates
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// no password, no sudo rule and no group beyond those declared, as it always has, and takes none
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// away from one it finds: a sudo rule or a group granted by hand is a person's to remove, and a
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// declaration that silently stripped them would be the mesh deciding what a person's machine
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// grants. What "never" adds is the look: on every look the engine reads whether the account can
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// become root by itself — by its uid, a group that grants root, any sudo rule, or a secret the mesh
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// placed that it can read — and says it unhealthy while it can (internal/accounts), so the
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// controller can tell a machine where it holds from one where it does not.
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Root string `json:"root,omitempty"`
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}
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// RootNever is the one value Root takes besides empty: the account never becomes root without a person.
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const RootNever = "never"
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// Network is a named network on this machine.
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//
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// **A name and nothing else.** Not a driver, a subnet or a gateway: each of those is something a
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@@ -478,6 +495,9 @@ func (u *User) validate(where string, _ bool) []string {
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if u.Home != "" && !strings.HasPrefix(u.Home, "/") {
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problems = append(problems, where+": a home directory is an absolute path")
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}
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if u.Root != "" && u.Root != RootNever {
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problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf("%s: root is %q or absent, and %q is neither", where, RootNever, u.Root))
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}
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return problems
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}
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