nixpkgs/nixos/tests/nscd.nix
Florian Klink fbfe2907af nixos/nscd: use nsncd by default
As announced in the NixOS 22.11 release notes, 23.05 will switch NixOS
to using nsncd (a non-caching reimplementation in Rust) as NSS lookup
dispatcher, instead of the buggy and deprecated glibc-provided nscd.

If you need to switch back, set `services.nscd.enableNsncd = false`, but
please open an issue in nixpkgs so your issue can be fixed.
2023-02-02 11:07:25 +01:00

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import ./make-test-python.nix ({ pkgs, ... }:
let
# build a getent that itself doesn't see anything in /etc/hosts and
# /etc/nsswitch.conf, by using libredirect to steer its own requests to
# /dev/null.
# This means is /has/ to go via nscd to actuallly resolve any of the
# additionally configured hosts.
getent' = pkgs.writeScript "getent-without-etc-hosts" ''
export NIX_REDIRECTS=/etc/hosts=/dev/null:/etc/nsswitch.conf=/dev/null
export LD_PRELOAD=${pkgs.libredirect}/lib/libredirect.so
exec getent $@
'';
in
{
name = "nscd";
nodes.machine = { pkgs, ... }: {
imports = [ common/user-account.nix ];
networking.extraHosts = ''
2001:db8::1 somehost.test
192.0.2.1 somehost.test
'';
systemd.services.sockdump = {
wantedBy = [ "multi-user.target" ];
path = [
# necessary for bcc to unpack kernel headers and invoke modprobe
pkgs.gnutar
pkgs.xz.bin
pkgs.kmod
];
environment.PYTHONUNBUFFERED = "1";
serviceConfig = {
ExecStart = "${pkgs.sockdump}/bin/sockdump /var/run/nscd/socket";
Restart = "on-failure";
RestartSec = "1";
Type = "simple";
};
};
specialisation = {
withGlibcNscd.configuration = { ... }: {
services.nscd.enableNsncd = false;
};
withUnscd.configuration = { ... }: {
services.nscd.enableNsncd = false;
services.nscd.package = pkgs.unscd;
};
};
};
testScript = { nodes, ... }:
let
specialisations = "${nodes.machine.system.build.toplevel}/specialisation";
in
''
# Regression test for https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/50273
def test_dynamic_user():
with subtest("DynamicUser actually allocates a user"):
assert "iamatest" in machine.succeed(
"systemd-run --pty --property=Type=oneshot --property=DynamicUser=yes --property=User=iamatest whoami"
)
# Test resolution of somehost.test with getent', to make sure we go via
# nscd protocol
def test_host_lookups():
with subtest("host lookups via nscd protocol"):
# ahosts
output = machine.succeed("${getent'} ahosts somehost.test")
assert "192.0.2.1" in output
assert "2001:db8::1" in output
# ahostsv4
output = machine.succeed("${getent'} ahostsv4 somehost.test")
assert "192.0.2.1" in output
assert "2001:db8::1" not in output
# ahostsv6
output = machine.succeed("${getent'} ahostsv6 somehost.test")
assert "192.0.2.1" not in output
assert "2001:db8::1" in output
# reverse lookups (hosts)
assert "somehost.test" in machine.succeed("${getent'} hosts 2001:db8::1")
assert "somehost.test" in machine.succeed("${getent'} hosts 192.0.2.1")
# Test host resolution via nss modules works
# We rely on nss-myhostname in this case, which resolves *.localhost and
# _gateway.
# We don't need to use getent' here, as non-glibc nss modules can only be
# discovered via nscd.
def test_nss_myhostname():
with subtest("nss-myhostname provides hostnames (ahosts)"):
# ahosts
output = machine.succeed("getent ahosts foobar.localhost")
assert "::1" in output
assert "127.0.0.1" in output
# ahostsv4
output = machine.succeed("getent ahostsv4 foobar.localhost")
assert "::1" not in output
assert "127.0.0.1" in output
# ahostsv6
output = machine.succeed("getent ahostsv6 foobar.localhost")
assert "::1" in output
assert "127.0.0.1" not in output
start_all()
machine.wait_for_unit("default.target")
# give sockdump some time to finish attaching.
machine.sleep(5)
# Test all tests with glibc-nscd.
test_dynamic_user()
test_host_lookups()
test_nss_myhostname()
with subtest("glibc-nscd"):
machine.succeed('${specialisations}/withGlibcNscd/bin/switch-to-configuration test')
machine.wait_for_unit("default.target")
test_dynamic_user()
test_host_lookups()
test_nss_myhostname()
with subtest("unscd"):
machine.succeed('${specialisations}/withUnscd/bin/switch-to-configuration test')
machine.wait_for_unit("default.target")
# known to fail, unscd doesn't load external NSS modules
# test_dynamic_user()
test_host_lookups()
# known to fail, unscd doesn't load external NSS modules
# test_nss_myhostname()
'';
})