Store SSH host keys in /var/lib/ssh

For some reason, when OverlayFS is mounted at `/etc/ssh`, SELinux
prevents access both `sshd` and `ssh-keygen` access to the files there.
The AVC denials indicate that (some part of) the process is running in
the `mount_t` domain, which is not allowed to read or write `sshd_key_t`
files.

To work around this issue, without granting `mount_t` overly-permissive
access, we now configure the SSH daemon to read host keys from the
persistent data volume directly, instead of "tricking" it with
OverlayFS.  The `ssh-keygen` tool does not read the `HostKey` options
from `sshd_config`, though, so it has to be explicitly instructed to
create keys in this alternate location.  By using a systemd template
unit with `ConditionPathExists`, we avoid regnerating the keys on every
boot, since the `ssh-keygen` command is only run if the file does not
already exist.
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2023-03-06 14:53:08 -06:00
parent f2d6db5af1
commit 301589af22
8 changed files with 35 additions and 17 deletions

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@@ -26,9 +26,6 @@ format_dev() {
mkfs.btrfs "${dev}" || exit
mount "${dev}" "${tmpdir}" || exit
btrfs subvolume create "${tmpdir}"/etc || exit
mkdir -p "${tmpdir}"/etc/.work "${tmpdir}"/etc/rw || exit
mkdir -p "${tmpdir}"/etc/rw/ssh
btrfs subvolume create "${tmpdir}"/var || exit
btrfs subvolume create "${tmpdir}"/var/log || exit
umount "${dev}" || exit