0store-secure-add.1

.TH 0STORE\-SECURE\-ADD 1 "2010" "Thomas Leonard" ""
.SH NAME
0store\-secure\-add \(em add an implementation to the system cache

.SH SYNOPSIS

.B 0store\-secure\-add
\fBDIGEST\fP

.SH DESCRIPTION
.PP
This command imports the current directory into the system-wide shared Zero
Install cache, as /var/cache/0install.net/implementations/DIGEST.
This allows a program downloaded by one user to be shared with other users.

.PP
The current directory must contain a file called '.manifest' listing all the
files to be added (in the format required by DIGEST), and this file must have the
given digest. If not, the import is refused. Therefore, it is only possible to
add a directory to the cache if its name matches its contents.

.PP
It is intended that it be safe to grant untrusted users permission to call
this command with elevated privileges. To set this up, see below.

.SH SETTING UP SHARING

To enable sharing, the system administrator should follow these steps:

.PP
Create a new system user to own the cache:

.B adduser \-\-system zeroinst

.PP
Create the shared directory, owned by this new user:

.B mkdir /var/cache/0install.net

.B chown zeroinst /var/cache/0install.net

.P
Use visudo(8) to add these lines to /etc/sudoers:

.B Defaults>zeroinst env_reset,always_set_home

.B ALL     ALL=(zeroinst) NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/0store\-secure\-add

.P
Create a script called
.B 0store\-secure\-add\-helper
in PATH to call it. This script must be executable and contain these two lines:

.B
#!/bin/sh

.B
exec sudo \-S \-u zeroinst /usr/bin/0store\-secure\-add "$@" < /dev/null

.P
The other Zero Install programs will call this helper script automatically.

.SH FILES

.IP "/var/cache/0install.net/implementations"
System-wide Zero Install cache.

.SH LICENSE
.PP
Copyright (C) 2009 Thomas Leonard.

.PP
You may redistribute copies of this program under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License.

.SH BUGS
.PP
This program is EXPERIMENTAL. It has not been audited. Do not use it yet in
security-critial environments.

.PP
The env_reset line in sudoers may not be required. sudo(1) seems to do it automatically.

.PP
If sudo let us check whether we could call a command then we could switch to
using it automatically, instead of needing to add the helper script. Currently,
sudo delays for one second and writes to auth.log if we try to use this system
when it hasn't been set up.

.PP
Please report bugs to the developer mailing list:

http://0install.net/support.html

.SH AUTHOR
.PP
Zero Install was created by Thomas Leonard.

.SH SEE ALSO
0store(1)

.PP
The Zero Install web-site:

.B http://0install.net