Support running service as real user to access home directories

- NixOS module conditionally applies restrictions based on user
- When user != 'backlog', disables ProtectHome and ProtectSystem
- Allows service to access ~/... paths when running as real user
- Update placeholder to show absolute path example
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Alexander
2026-05-18 18:51:49 +02:00
parent 0a408dd992
commit 70d81af82f
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@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
let
cfg = config.services.personal-backlog;
package = pkgs.callPackage ./package.nix { };
isDefaultUser = cfg.user == "backlog";
in
{
options.services.personal-backlog = {
@@ -35,7 +36,7 @@ in
user = lib.mkOption {
type = lib.types.str;
default = "backlog";
description = "User account under which the service runs.";
description = "User account under which the service runs. Set to your username to access home directories.";
};
group = lib.mkOption {
@@ -52,14 +53,14 @@ in
};
config = lib.mkIf cfg.enable {
users.users.${cfg.user} = {
users.users.${cfg.user} = lib.mkIf isDefaultUser {
isSystemUser = true;
group = cfg.group;
home = cfg.dataDir;
createHome = true;
};
users.groups.${cfg.group} = { };
users.groups.${cfg.group} = lib.mkIf isDefaultUser { };
systemd.services.personal-backlog = {
description = "Personal Backlog Task Manager";
@@ -75,14 +76,14 @@ in
Restart = "on-failure";
RestartSec = 5;
StateDirectory = "personal-backlog";
StateDirectoryMode = "0750";
StateDirectory = lib.mkIf isDefaultUser "personal-backlog";
StateDirectoryMode = lib.mkIf isDefaultUser "0750";
NoNewPrivileges = true;
ProtectSystem = "strict";
ProtectHome = true;
ProtectSystem = lib.mkIf isDefaultUser "strict";
ProtectHome = lib.mkIf isDefaultUser true;
PrivateTmp = true;
ReadWritePaths = [ cfg.dataDir ];
ReadWritePaths = lib.mkIf isDefaultUser [ cfg.dataDir ];
};
};