# Shared shell step for a systemd oneshot that lands a freshly-fetched # secret on disk: never `> path` the live file directly, because a reader # racing the write can open it between the truncate and the write, or # between the write and a `chmod` that follows it, and see an empty file # or one at the wrong mode. `mktemp` always creates its file at 0600 # regardless of umask, so the temp file is private for its whole life; only # the `chmod`/`chown`/`mv -f` sequence below ever makes the target mode and # owner visible, and only once the content is already final. # # Pure function — NOT a NixOS module. Call it from a module's `let`: # # atomicWriteSecret = import ./lib/atomic-write-secret.nix { }; # ... # script = '' # ${atomicWriteSecret} # printf '%s\n' "$secret" | atomic_write_secret 0600 "" "$path" # printf '%s\n' "$secret" | atomic_write_secret 0400 "grafana:0" "$path" # ''; # # Third argument to `atomic_write_secret` is the target path; the second is # an owner for `chown` (`user:group` or a bare uid), or "" to leave the # mktemp-created root:root ownership as it is. Reads its content from # stdin. Requires `coreutils` on the caller's `path`. { }: '' atomic_write_secret() { local mode="$1" owner="$2" target="$3" tmp tmp="$(mktemp "$(dirname -- "$target")/.$(basename -- "$target").XXXXXX")" # The write happens in a subshell so its own EXIT trap cleans up `$tmp` # on failure (a `RETURN` trap does not fire when `set -e` aborts the # function mid-body) without touching an EXIT trap the calling script's # own `script` may already have — subshell traps are local to the # subshell. A named handler, not an inline trap string, so `local rc=$?` # is a normal function-local assignment shellcheck can see: it only # removes `$tmp` when `$?` is nonzero — on the ordinary path the # subshell also exits successfully, and `$tmp` has to survive that to # reach the `mv` below. ( _atomic_write_secret_cleanup() { local rc=$? [ "$rc" -eq 0 ] || rm -f "$tmp" exit "$rc" } trap _atomic_write_secret_cleanup EXIT cat > "$tmp" chmod "$mode" "$tmp" if [ -n "$owner" ]; then chown "$owner" "$tmp" fi ) mv -f "$tmp" "$target" } ''