Using '$' is easy to misuse in shell scripts, shell commands etc. After
all this years, lets abandon this dangerous character and move to
something safer: '@'. The choice was made after reviewing specifications
of various shells on different operating systems and this is the
character that have no special meaning in none of them.
To preserve compatibility, automatically translate '$' to '@' when
loading policy files.
Provide original target as two arguments: type, value
This will ease handling special keywords without risking hitting shell
special characters or other problems.
All policy keywords needs to be expanded before sending it to
confirmation dialog. $dispvm was already handled, but $adminvm was
missing
FixesQubesOS/qubes-issues#3283
'dispvm_allowed' name was confusing, because it suggested being able to
spawn new DispVMs, not being a template for DispVM.
FixesQubesOS/qubes-issues#3047
Add public Admin API call to create Disposable VM that would be
automatically destroyed after shutdown. Do not keep this functionality
for qrexec-policy tool only.
Also, use admin.vm.Start there, instead of internal.vm.Start and
admin.vm.Kill instead of internal.vm.CleanupDispVM (this is enough,
because DispVM now have auto_cleanup property).
QubesOS/qubes-issues#2974
When rule does not specify forced target (`target=...`), generic
`$dispvm` wasn't resolved to specific Disposable VM (based on
`default_dispvm` property).
- drop qid usage - it isn't really needed, especially for to-be-created
DispVMs
- use "domains_info" dict as input, instead of loading qubes.xml
directly
- nicely format "Disposable VM" entries
- simplify whitelist/blacklist handling - since qrexecpolicy always
provide a list of allowed choices, use just that
Important note: there are two names concepts:
1. Display name - name of VM, or in case of to-be-created DispVMs - a
string "Disposable VM (name-of-base-vm)"
2. API name - as in qrexec policy - $dispvm:name-of-base-vm for new
DispVMs
Externally at API level (allowed targets list, return value), API name
is used, but internally VMListModeler._entries is still indexed with
display names. This is done for more efficient (and readable) GUI
handling - because most of the time it's searched for what user have
entered.
QubesOS/qubes-issues#910
Import unmodified implementation done by @boring-stuff.
Full history for reference is available in rpc-confirmation-window
branch.
QubesOS/qubes-issues#910
