mesh-host/internal/system/identities.go

package system

import (
	"context"
	"fmt"
	"strconv"
	"strings"
)

// A module's identity as a system account (novox/hq ADR 0328 §3, §4): an account and a group with exactly the numbers
// the controller allocated, no login shell, no home and no password. Optional beside System: a system that has
// none (android) makes no module identity, and the engine says so.

// CreateSystemGroup makes a system group with gid.
func (arch) CreateSystemGroup(ctx context.Context, run Runner, name string, gid int) error {
	if _, err := run(ctx, "groupadd", "--system", "--gid", strconv.Itoa(gid), name); err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("cannot create the group %q: %w", name, err)
	}
	return nil
}

// NoHome is the home field of every module account: a path that is not there, so nothing that follows an account's
// home — usermod regrouping every file under it, for one — ever walks a real tree. Never `/`: `usermod --gid` on
// an account whose home is `/` regroups every file it owns on the machine.
const NoHome = "/nonexistent"

// CreateSystemAccount makes a system account with uid and the group gid as its own: no home made, NoHome as the
// home field, nologin as its shell, and the password useradd leaves locked.
func (arch) CreateSystemAccount(ctx context.Context, run Runner, name string, uid, gid int, groups []string) error {
	args := []string{"--system", "--uid", strconv.Itoa(uid), "--gid", strconv.Itoa(gid)}
	if len(groups) > 0 {
		args = append(args, "--groups", strings.Join(groups, ","))
	}
	args = append(args, "--no-create-home", "--home-dir", NoHome, "--shell", "/usr/bin/nologin", name)
	if _, err := run(ctx, "useradd", args...); err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("cannot create the account %q: %w", name, err)
	}
	return nil
}

// ModifyAccount gives an account the mesh made its primary group gid and exactly groups as its added groups.
//
// **Its home is moved to NoHome first, never its files.** `usermod --gid` regroups every file under the account's
// home that the account owns; an account made with `/` as its home (an earlier engine's) would have the whole
// machine walked as root. So an account whose home is not NoHome is given NoHome first, without -m: no file moves.
func (arch) ModifyAccount(ctx context.Context, run Runner, name string, gid int, groups []string) error {
	passwd, err := run(ctx, "getent", "passwd", name)
	if err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("cannot read the account %q: %w", name, err)
	}
	fields := strings.Split(strings.TrimSpace(passwd), ":")
	if len(fields) < 6 {
		return fmt.Errorf("the user database gave %q for %q, which is not a passwd entry", strings.TrimSpace(passwd),
			name)
	}
	if fields[5] != NoHome {
		if _, err := run(ctx, "usermod", "--home", NoHome, name); err != nil {
			return fmt.Errorf("cannot give the account %q no home before its groups: %w", name, err)
		}
	}
	if _, err := run(ctx, "usermod", "--gid", strconv.Itoa(gid), "--groups", strings.Join(groups, ","),
		name); err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("cannot give the account %q its groups: %w", name, err)
	}
	return nil
}

// RemoveAccount removes an account, leaving every file it owns where it is.
func (arch) RemoveAccount(ctx context.Context, run Runner, name string) error {
	if _, err := run(ctx, "userdel", name); err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("cannot remove the account %q: %w", name, err)
	}
	return nil
}

// RemoveGroup removes a group.
func (arch) RemoveGroup(ctx context.Context, run Runner, name string) error {
	if _, err := run(ctx, "groupdel", name); err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("cannot remove the group %q: %w", name, err)
	}
	return nil
}

// CreateSystemGroup makes a system group with gid, with busybox's addgroup.
func (alpine) CreateSystemGroup(ctx context.Context, run Runner, name string, gid int) error {
	if _, err := run(ctx, "addgroup", "-S", "-g", strconv.Itoa(gid), name); err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("cannot create the group %q: %w", name, err)
	}
	return nil
}

// CreateSystemAccount makes a system account with busybox's adduser: -S system, -D no password, -H no home made.
func (alpine) CreateSystemAccount(ctx context.Context, run Runner, name string, uid, gid int, groups []string) error {
	group, err := run(ctx, "getent", "group", strconv.Itoa(gid))
	if err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("cannot create the account %q: its group gid %d is not here: %w", name, gid, err)
	}
	groupName := name
	if n, _, ok := strings.Cut(group, ":"); ok {
		groupName = n
	}
	if _, err := run(ctx, "adduser", "-S", "-D", "-H", "-h", NoHome, "-s", "/sbin/nologin", "-u", strconv.Itoa(uid),
		"-G", groupName, name); err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("cannot create the account %q: %w", name, err)
	}
	for _, g := range groups {
		if _, err := run(ctx, "addgroup", name, g); err != nil {
			return fmt.Errorf("cannot put the account %q in %q: %w", name, g, err)
		}
	}
	return nil
}

// ModifyAccount gives an account the mesh made exactly groups as its added groups, with busybox's addgroup and
// delgroup. Its primary group busybox cannot change (it has no usermod, and the mesh edits no passwd by hand):
// an account whose primary group must change is refused, saying so, and left as it is.
func (alpine) ModifyAccount(ctx context.Context, run Runner, name string, gid int, groups []string) error {
	passwd, err := run(ctx, "getent", "passwd", name)
	if err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("cannot read the account %q: %w", name, err)
	}
	fields := strings.Split(strings.TrimSpace(passwd), ":")
	if len(fields) < 4 || fields[3] != strconv.Itoa(gid) {
		return fmt.Errorf("this system cannot change the account %q's primary group to %d: busybox has no usermod, "+
			"and the mesh edits no passwd by hand: %w", name, gid, ErrUnsupported)
	}
	primary := ""
	if g, err := run(ctx, "getent", "group", fields[3]); err == nil {
		primary, _, _ = strings.Cut(strings.TrimSpace(g), ":")
	}
	out, err := run(ctx, "id", "-nG", name)
	if err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("cannot read the account %q's groups: %w", name, err)
	}
	have, want := map[string]bool{}, map[string]bool{}
	for _, g := range strings.Fields(out) {
		if g != primary && g != name {
			have[g] = true
		}
	}
	for _, g := range groups {
		want[g] = true
		if !have[g] {
			if _, err := run(ctx, "addgroup", name, g); err != nil {
				return fmt.Errorf("cannot put the account %q in %q: %w", name, g, err)
			}
		}
	}
	for g := range have {
		if !want[g] {
			if _, err := run(ctx, "delgroup", name, g); err != nil {
				return fmt.Errorf("cannot take the account %q out of %q: %w", name, g, err)
			}
		}
	}
	return nil
}

// RemoveAccount removes an account with busybox's deluser.
func (alpine) RemoveAccount(ctx context.Context, run Runner, name string) error {
	if _, err := run(ctx, "deluser", name); err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("cannot remove the account %q: %w", name, err)
	}
	return nil
}

// RemoveGroup removes a group with busybox's delgroup.
func (alpine) RemoveGroup(ctx context.Context, run Runner, name string) error {
	if _, err := run(ctx, "delgroup", name); err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("cannot remove the group %q: %w", name, err)
	}
	return nil
}