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From: Alyssa Ross <hi@alyssa.is>
To: devel@spectrum-os.org
Subject: [PATCH 12/13] img/app: add application user
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2025 22:34:05 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251126213407.1773744-12-hi@alyssa.is> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20251126213407.1773744-1-hi@alyssa.is>

We should stop running applications as root, and for applications
like Firefox, we'll need a writable home directory.

Signed-off-by: Alyssa Ross <hi@alyssa.is>
---
 img/app/Makefile         |  2 +-
 img/app/image/etc/fstab  | 13 +++++++------
 img/app/image/etc/group  |  1 +
 img/app/image/etc/passwd |  1 +
 4 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/img/app/Makefile b/img/app/Makefile
index 2838554..ddfc8ef 100644
--- a/img/app/Makefile
+++ b/img/app/Makefile
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ $(imgdir)/appvm/blk/root.img: ../../scripts/make-gpt.sh ../../scripts/sfdisk-fie
 	    build/rootfs.erofs:root:5460386f-2203-4911-8694-91400125c604:root
 	mv $@.tmp $@
 
-DIRS = dev run proc sys tmp \
+DIRS = dev home/user run proc sys tmp \
 	etc/s6-linux-init/run-image/pipewire \
 	etc/s6-linux-init/run-image/service \
 	etc/s6-linux-init/run-image/user \
diff --git a/img/app/image/etc/fstab b/img/app/image/etc/fstab
index a466dcc..edd2d7f 100644
--- a/img/app/image/etc/fstab
+++ b/img/app/image/etc/fstab
@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: CC0-1.0
-# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2020-2022 Alyssa Ross <hi@alyssa.is>
-proc		/proc		proc	defaults		0	0
-devpts		/dev/pts	devpts	gid=5,mode=620		0	0
-tmpfs		/dev/shm	tmpfs	defaults		0	0
-sysfs		/sys		sysfs	defaults		0	0
-tmpfs		/tmp		tmpfs	defaults		0	0
+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2020-2022, 2025 Alyssa Ross <hi@alyssa.is>
+proc		/proc		proc	defaults			0	0
+devpts		/dev/pts	devpts	gid=5,mode=620			0	0
+tmpfs		/dev/shm	tmpfs	defaults			0	0
+sysfs		/sys		sysfs	defaults			0	0
+tmpfs		/tmp		tmpfs	defaults			0	0
+tmpfs		/home/user	tmpfs	mode=0700,uid=1000,gid=1000	0	0
diff --git a/img/app/image/etc/group b/img/app/image/etc/group
index 0bf6579..b2c3a2e 100644
--- a/img/app/image/etc/group
+++ b/img/app/image/etc/group
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
 wayland:x:1:wayland
 wireplumber:x:2:wireplumber
 pipewire:x:3:pipewire
+user:x:1000:user
diff --git a/img/app/image/etc/passwd b/img/app/image/etc/passwd
index 631554c..08324b0 100644
--- a/img/app/image/etc/passwd
+++ b/img/app/image/etc/passwd
@@ -2,3 +2,4 @@ root:x:0:0:System administrator:/run/root:/bin/sh
 wayland:x:1:1:wayland-proxy-virtwl service user:/:/usr/bin/nologin
 wireplumber:x:2:2:WirePlumber service user:/:/usr/bin/nologin
 pipewire:x:3:3:PipeWire service user:/:/usr/bin/nologin
+user:x:1000:1000:Spectrum application user:/home/user:/bin/sh
-- 
2.51.0


  parent reply	other threads:[~2025-11-26 21:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-11-26 21:33 [PATCH 01/13] pkgs: gtk3: backport fix for unset XDG_RUNTIME_DIR Alyssa Ross
2025-11-26 21:33 ` [PATCH 02/13] pkgs: s6: backport s6-softlimit -P Alyssa Ross
2025-12-02 12:30   ` Alyssa Ross
2025-11-26 21:33 ` [PATCH 03/13] img/app: wayland-proxy-virtwl: move Wayland socket Alyssa Ross
2025-12-02 12:30   ` Alyssa Ross
2025-11-26 21:33 ` [PATCH 04/13] img/app: wayland-proxy-virtwl: run as non-root Alyssa Ross
2025-12-02 12:30   ` Alyssa Ross
2025-11-26 21:33 ` [PATCH 05/13] img/app: pipewire: move sockets out of XDG_RUNTIME_DIR Alyssa Ross
2025-12-02 12:30   ` Alyssa Ross
2025-11-26 21:33 ` [PATCH 06/13] img/app: remove XDG_RUNTIME_DIR Alyssa Ross
2025-12-01  5:55   ` Demi Marie Obenour
2025-12-01 11:24     ` Alyssa Ross
2025-12-01 19:05       ` Demi Marie Obenour
2025-12-02 12:30   ` Alyssa Ross
2025-11-26 21:34 ` [PATCH 07/13] img/app: wireplumber: run as non-root Alyssa Ross
2025-12-02 12:30   ` Alyssa Ross
2025-11-26 21:34 ` [PATCH 08/13] img/app: pipewire: disable D-Bus Alyssa Ross
2025-12-02 12:30   ` Alyssa Ross
2025-11-26 21:34 ` [PATCH 09/13] img/app: pipewire: stop fighting s6 over lockfiles Alyssa Ross
2025-12-02 12:30   ` Alyssa Ross
2025-11-26 21:34 ` [PATCH 10/13] img/app: pipewire: run as non-root Alyssa Ross
2025-12-02 12:30   ` Alyssa Ross
2025-11-26 21:34 ` [PATCH 11/13] img/app: dbus: create socket outside daemon Alyssa Ross
2025-12-02 12:30   ` Alyssa Ross
2025-11-26 21:34 ` Alyssa Ross [this message]
2025-12-02 12:30   ` [PATCH 12/13] img/app: add application user Alyssa Ross
2025-11-26 21:34 ` [PATCH 13/13] img/app: run applications as non-root Alyssa Ross
2025-12-01  5:58   ` Demi Marie Obenour
2025-12-01 11:31     ` Alyssa Ross
2025-12-02 12:30   ` Alyssa Ross
2025-12-02 12:30 ` [PATCH 01/13] pkgs: gtk3: backport fix for unset XDG_RUNTIME_DIR Alyssa Ross

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