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README.md

Fortify

Go Reference

Lets you run graphical applications as another user in an Android-like sandbox environment (WIP) with a nice NixOS module to configure target users and provide launchers and desktop files for your privileged user.

Why would you want this?

  • It protects the desktop environment from applications.

  • It protects applications from each other.

  • It provides UID isolation on top of the standard application sandbox (WIP).

There are a few different things to set up for this to work:

  • A set of users, each for a group of applications that should be allowed access to each other

  • A tool to switch users, currently sudo and machinectl are supported.

  • If you are running NixOS, the module in this repository can take care of launchers and desktop files in the privileged user's environment, as well as packages and extra home-manager configuration for target users.

If you have a flakes-enabled nix environment, you can try out the tool by running:

nix run git+https://git.ophivana.moe/cat/fortify -- -h

Module usage

The NixOS module currently requires home-manager and impermanence to function correctly.

To use the module, import it into your configuration with

{
  inputs = {
    nixpkgs.url = "github:NixOS/nixpkgs/nixos-24.05";

    fortify = {
      url = "git+https://git.ophivana.moe/cat/fortify";

      # Optional but recommended to limit the size of your system closure.
      inputs.nixpkgs.follows = "nixpkgs";
    };
  };

  outputs = { self, nixpkgs, fortify, ... }:
  {
    nixosConfigurations.fortify = nixpkgs.lib.nixosSystem {
      system = "x86_64-linux";
      modules = [
        fortify.nixosModules.fortify
      ];
    };
  };
}

This adds the environment.fortify option:

{ pkgs, ... }:

{
  environment.fortify = {
    enable = true;
    user = "nixos";
    stateDir = "/var/lib/persist/module";
    target = {
      chronos = {
        launchers = {
          weechat.method = "sudo";
          claws-mail.capability.pulse = false;

          discord = {
            command = "vesktop --ozone-platform-hint=wayland";
            share = pkgs.vesktop;
          };

          chromium.dbus = {
            configSystem = {
              filter = true;
              talk = [
                "org.bluez"
                "org.freedesktop.Avahi"
                "org.freedesktop.UPower"
              ];
            };
            config = {
              filter = true;
              talk = [
                "org.freedesktop.DBus"
                "org.freedesktop.FileManager1"
                "org.freedesktop.Notifications"
                "org.freedesktop.ScreenSaver"
                "org.freedesktop.secrets"
                "org.kde.kwalletd5"    
                "org.kde.kwalletd6"
              ];   
              own = [
                "org.chromium.Chromium.*"
                "org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.org.chromium.Chromium.*"
                "org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.chromium.*"
              ];
              call = {
                "org.freedesktop.portal.*" = "*";
              };
              broadcast = {
                "org.freedesktop.portal.*" = "@/org/freedesktop/portal/*";
              };
            };
          };
        };
        packages = with pkgs; [
          weechat
          claws-mail
          vesktop
          chromium
        ];
        persistence.directories = [
          ".config/weechat"
          ".claws-mail"
          ".config/vesktop"
        ];
        extraConfig = {
          programs.looking-glass-client.enable = true;
        };
      };
    };
  };
}
  • enable determines whether the module should be enabled or not. Useful when sharing configurations between graphical and headless systems. Defaults to false.

  • user specifies the privileged user with access to fortified applications.

  • stateDir is the path to your persistent storage location. It is directly passed through to the impermanence module.

  • target is an attribute set of submodules, where the attribute name is the username of the unprivileged target user.

    The available options are:

    • packages, the list of packages to make available in the target user's environment.

    • persistence, user persistence attribute set passed to impermanence.

    • extraConfig, extra home-manager configuration for the target user.

    • launchers, attribute set where the attribute name is the name of the launcher.

      The available options are:

      • command, the command to run as the target user. Defaults to launcher name.

      • dbus.config, D-Bus proxy custom configuration.

      • dbus.configSystem, D-Bus system bus custom configuration, null to disable.

      • dbus.id, D-Bus application id, has no effect if dbus.config is set.

      • dbus.mpris, whether to enable MPRIS defaults, has no effect if dbus.config is set.

      • capability.wayland, whether to share the Wayland socket.

      • capability.x11, whether to share the X11 socket and allow connection.

      • capability.dbus, whether to proxy D-Bus.

      • capability.pulse, whether to share the PulseAudio socket and cookie.

      • share, package containing desktop/icon files. Defaults to launcher name.

      • method, the launch method for the sandboxed program, can be "fortify", "fortify-sudo", "sudo".