[Nix-dev] Is it possible to limit nix access to sudoers and/or a group?

Danylo Hlynskyi abcz2.uprola at gmail.com
Fri Jan 20 09:59:42 CET 2017


Nix design doesn't support quotas on filled store per-user, and let's not
forget #8.

2017-01-20 5:36 GMT+02:00 Tomasz Czyż <tomasz.czyz at gmail.com>:

> It's probably against nix design but let's try.
>
> Just an idea (haven't tried yet). Install nix as NIXUSER (without the
> deamon, just nix to run builds). Other users can access paths, build by nix
> from /nix/store but they won't access nix as it belongs to NIXUSER.
>
> But they probably can access nix at any point at this stage (or maybe they
> need sudo to be added to a group, not sure).
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> 2017-01-20 2:15 GMT+00:00 Mateusz Czaplinski <czapkofan at gmail.com>:
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>> I'd like to build a system where regular users cannot access nix
>> commands, daemon, etc. Ideally, only users belonging to a particular
>> group could access those. (Probably worse solution, but still
>> acceptable, if this was limited to sudoers only.)
>>
>> Is it possible? If yes, how to do that on NixOS?
>>
>> Thanks & Best Regards,
>> /Mateusz.
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