wpa_supplicant: introduce unprivileged service

[dkwo]

This is the same setup that was proposed earlier, except we now create a new service, so the user can choose what to use (default to current root service). The unprivileged service has been working seamlessly for me for many months, but certain setups can be affected, e.g. wpa_cli (see also the discussion in nixpkgs).

See also the corresponging pr for dhcpcd #53404

[classabbyamp]

what discussion in nixpkgs?

[Duncaen]

Just fully changing the ownership of the configuration directory to the writable by the unprivileged user does not seem like its necessary.

[dkwo]

Refs: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/305722 and https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1031375

Would chown -R _wpas:_wpas /etc/wpa_supplicant/* be better? if so, I can test it. The reason is that there can be other files there, such as a password file (via ext_password_backend) or wifi certificates.

[Duncaen]

Maybe something like root:_wpas and make sure its only owner writable?

[dkwo]

Indeed, this seems to be enough:

$ ls -la /etc/wpa_supplicant 
total 20
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root  4096 Jun 14 19:38 .
drwxr-xr-x 60 root root  4096 Jun 14 19:46 ..
-rw-r-----  1 root _wpas 2094 Oct 12  2022 eduroam.cer
-rw-r-----  1 root _wpas  215 Nov 14  2024 wifi-passwords.conf
-rw-r-----  1 root _wpas  800 Feb 23 15:37 wpa_supplicant.conf

I changed the service accordingly. At this point, the user only needs to change control_interface_group to _wpas in the conf file to use the unprivileged service. Does this warrant an install msg?

[dkwo]

After some trial and error, I found out that I can even lockdown the file system, giving it only access to

  --landlock-access fs \
  --landlock-rule path-beneath:read-file:/proc/sys/net \
  --landlock-rule path-beneath:read-file:/dev/urandom \
  --landlock-rule path-beneath:read-file:/etc/group \
  --landlock-rule path-beneath:read-file:/etc/wpa_supplicant \
  --landlock-rule path-beneath:read-file,execute:/usr/bin/wpa_supplicant \
  --landlock-rule path-beneath:read-file,execute:/usr/lib \
  --landlock-rule path-beneath:read-file,read-dir,remove-dir,remove-file,make-sock:/run/wpa_supplicant \

Would it make sense to add this to the unprivileged service?