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[bug#48803] [PATCH] strongswan: provide a service definition and configu


From: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Subject: [bug#48803] [PATCH] strongswan: provide a service definition and configuration interface.
Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2021 14:41:00 +0200

Domagoj,

Domagoj Stolfa 写道:
This commit adds a strongswan-service-type which allows the user to
start strongswan correctly on Guix.

Thank you!

Because ipsec.conf depends on indentation and is a deprecated intreface,
we do not provide an EDSL to configure it,

OK.

and we do not put the config
file in a Guile string (to avoid indentation issues).

Not using a string is fine by me, but I don't understand this particular argument for it.

Similarly,
ipsec.secrets contains the users authentication token/passwords, and is for security reasons transmitted separately from the configuration file.

OK, good to make it hard to inadvertently intern into the store.

    (service strongswan-service-type
             (strongswan-configuration
              (use-ipsec? #t)
              (ipsec-conf "/config-files/ipsec.conf")
              (ipsec-secrets "/config-files/ipsec.secrets")))

(I)IRC you told me that the majority of users simply point StrongSwan to a .conf/.secrets file they got from on high, and this is all they'll ever need to do so. Sounds good to me.

This is a bit straightforward (no ‘local-file’, ‘plain-file’, …) but there's precedent for that:

 (service nginx-service-type
          (nginx-configuration
           (file "/etc/guix/nginx/nginx.conf")))

What does the daemon do now when USE-IPSEC? is #f? Anything useful?

Could we drop USE-IPSEC? and allow IPSEC-CONF/IPSEC-SECRETS to be #f to signal the same thing (enforcing only sane combinations)? Or would that make things more confusing?

Is all this legacy enough to mark as such in the field name (LEGACY-IPSEC-CONF, etc.) or is it one of those things that will never ever go away and VPN providers will still hand out ipsecs.conf in 2038?

This will start the charon daemon and allow them to connect to their
VPNs configured in `/config-files/ipsec.conf`.
---
gnu/services/vpn.scm | 128 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 128 insertions(+)

diff --git a/gnu/services/vpn.scm b/gnu/services/vpn.scm
index 2bcbf76727..e026f2aa58 100644
--- a/gnu/services/vpn.scm
+++ b/gnu/services/vpn.scm
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 ;;; Copyright © 2017 Mathieu Othacehe <m.othacehe@gmail.com>
 ;;; Copyright © 2021 Guillaume Le Vaillant <glv@posteo.net>
 ;;; Copyright © 2021 Solene Rapenne <solene@perso.pw>
+;;; Copyright © 2021 Domagoj Stolfa <ds815@gmx.com>
 ;;;
 ;;; This file is part of GNU Guix.
 ;;;
@@ -26,6 +27,7 @@
   #:use-module (gnu services shepherd)
   #:use-module (gnu system shadow)
   #:use-module (gnu packages admin)
+  #:use-module (gnu packages networking)
   #:use-module (gnu packages vpn)
   #:use-module (guix packages)
   #:use-module (guix records)
@@ -44,6 +46,9 @@
             generate-openvpn-client-documentation
             generate-openvpn-server-documentation
+ strongswan-configuration
+            strongswan-service-type
+
             wireguard-peer
             wireguard-peer?
             wireguard-peer-name
@@ -529,6 +534,129 @@ is truncated and rewritten every minute.")
(openvpn-remote-configuration ,openvpn-remote-configuration-fields))
    'openvpn-client-configuration))
+;;;
+;;; Strongswan.
+;;;
+
+(define-record-type* <strongswan-configuration>
+  strongswan-configuration make-strongswan-configuration
+  strongswan-configuration?
+ (strongswan strongswan-configuration-strongswan ;<package>
+                   (default strongswan))
+ (use-ipsec? strongswan-configuration-use-ipsec? ;legacy interface
+                   (default #f))
+  (ipsec-conf      strongswan-configuration-ipsec-conf)
+  (ipsec-secrets   strongswan-configuration-ipsec-secrets))
+
+;; In the future, it might be worth implementing a record type to configure +;; all of the plugins, but for *most* basic usecases, simply creating the
+;; files will be sufficient. Same is true of charon-plugins.
+(define strongswand-config-files
+  (list "charon" "charon-logging" "pki" "pool" "scepclient"
+        "swanctl" "tnc"))
+
+;; Plugins to load.
+(define charon-plugins
+ (list "aes" "aesni" "attr" "attr-sql" "chapoly" "cmac" "constraints" + "counters" "curl" "curve25519" "dhcp" "dnskey" "drbg" "eap-aka-3gpp" + "eap-aka" "eap-dynamic" "eap-identity" "eap-md5" "eap-mschapv2" + "eap-peap" "eap-radius" "eap-simaka-pseudonym" "eap-simaka-reauth" + "eap-simaka-sql" "eap-sim" "eap-sim-file" "eap-tls" "eap-tnc" + "eap-ttls" "ext-auth" "farp" "fips-prf" "gmp" "ha" "hmac" + "kernel-netlink" "led" "md4" "md5" "mgf1" "nonce" "openssl" "pem" + "pgp" "pkcs12" "pkcs1" "pkcs7" "pkcs8" "pubkey" "random" "rc2" + "resolve" "revocation" "sha1" "sha2" "socket-default" "soup" "sql" + "sqlite" "sshkey" "tnc-tnccs" "vici" "x509" "xauth-eap" "xauth-generic"
+        "xauth-noauth" "xauth-pam" "xcbc"))

Are these simply ‘all of the plug-ins’?

I'm fine with this ‘temporary’ solution as long as it's never exported.

I'll trust you on all of this configuration syntax madness:  :-)

+(define (strongswan-configuration-file config)
+  (match-record config <strongswan-configuration>
+    (strongswan use-ipsec? ipsec-conf ipsec-secrets)
+    (let* ((strongswan-dir
+            (computed-file
+             "strongswan.d"
+             #~(begin
+                 (mkdir #$output)
+ ;; Create all of the configuration files in strongswan.d/*.conf
+                 (map (lambda (conf-file)
+                        (let* ((filename (string-append
+                                          #$output "/"
+                                          conf-file ".conf")))
+                          (call-with-output-file filename
+                            (lambda (port)
+                              (display
+ "# Created by 'strongswan-service'\n"
+                               port)))))
+                      (list #$@strongswand-config-files))
+                 (mkdir (string-append #$output "/charon"))
+ ;; And all of the strongswan.d/charon/*.conf files (plugins)

Nitpick: ;;-comments are full sentences ending in a full stop.

+                 (map (lambda (plugin)
+                        (let* ((filename (string-append
+                                          #$output "/charon/"
+                                          plugin ".conf")))
+                          (call-with-output-file filename
+                            (lambda (port)
+                              (format port "~a {
+  load = yes
+}"
+                                      plugin)))))
+                      (list #$@charon-plugins))))))
+ ;; Generate our strongswan.conf to reflect the user configuration.
+      (computed-file
+       "strongswan.conf"
+       #~(begin
+           (call-with-output-file #$output
+             (lambda (port)
+ (display "# Generated by 'strongswan-service'.\n" port)
+               (format port "charon {
+  load_modular = yes
+  plugins {
+    include ~a/charon/*.conf"
+                       #$strongswan-dir)
+               (if #$use-ipsec?
+                   (format port "
+    stroke {
+      load = yes
+      secrets_file = ~a
+    }

All this indentation is doing my head in, but it looks like here…

+  }
+}
+
+starter {
+  config_file = ~a
+}
+
+include ~a/*.conf"
+                           #$ipsec-secrets
+                           #$ipsec-conf
+                           #$strongswan-dir)
+                   (format port "
+  }
+}
+include ~a/*.conf"
+                           #$strongswan-dir)))))))))

…you had to choose between two ifs and two #$strongswan-dirs, and chose two #$strongswan-dirs? I prefer two ifs.

+(define (strongswan-shepherd-service config)
+  (let* ((ipsec (file-append strongswan "/sbin/ipsec"))
+ (strongswan-conf-path (strongswan-configuration-file config)))
+    (list (shepherd-service
+           (requirement '(networking))
+           (provision '(strongswan))

I guess. I have no idea how ‘generic’ StrongSwan is and whether this makes more sense than (provision '(ipsec)) or not.

+           (start #~(make-forkexec-constructor
+                     (list #$ipsec "start" "--nofork")
+                     #:environment-variables
+                     (list (string-append "STRONGSWAN_CONF="
+ #$strongswan-conf-path))))
+           (stop #~(make-kill-destructor))
+ (documentation "Start the charon daemon for IPsec VPN")))))

"StrongSwan's charon IKE keying daemon for IPsec VPN."

Most of ‘Run the …’/‘Start the …’ noise that has snuck into gnu/services should probably be removed.

+(define strongswan-service-type
+  (service-type
+   (name 'strongswan)
+   (extensions
+    (list (service-extension shepherd-root-service-type
+                             strongswan-shepherd-service)))))
+
 ;;;
 ;;; Wireguard.
 ;;;

For this to be merged, we're still missing some documentation in doc/guix.text. Would you be willing to write some?

Kind regards,

T G-R

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