Make lxc-docker a privileged container: unprivileged can't NFS-mount at all
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The kernel's NFS client filesystem doesn't set FS_USERNS_MOUNT, so mounting
NFS from inside any non-init user namespace -- exactly what an unprivileged
LXC container's UID-mapped root runs in -- is rejected at the VFS layer
with EPERM, regardless of Proxmox's mount=nfs;nfs4 container feature (which
only patches the AppArmor layer). Confirmed live on the redeployed lxc-docker
container: TCP to the NFS server's port 2049 succeeds, the server's export
table matches the container's IP, and mount.nfs: Operation not permitted
still fires immediately with no corresponding denial anywhere in the
server's own logs -- a kernel-level rejection that no amount of DNS/
automount/export tweaking (this branch's earlier commits) could ever fix.

modules/platforms/lxc.nix now keys proxmoxLXC.privileged off hostName
("docker" -> true) rather than a blanket false, since build-types/docker.nix
is also composed for linode-docker/proxmox-docker, which don't import
proxmox-lxc.nix at all -- setting this option there would break their eval.
create-proxmox-resource.sh reads the value back via a new
flake_target_lxc_privileged helper instead of hardcoding --unprivileged 1,
so the two stay in sync automatically for every lxc-* target.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01T48qgH3VTvs8wvwj44FEbE
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2026-07-21 05:57:06 +00:00
co-authored by Claude Sonnet 5
parent 42da626397
commit 6b09a808ed
3 changed files with 58 additions and 11 deletions
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@@ -34,3 +34,21 @@ flake_target_hostname() {
nix eval --raw "${NIX_EVAL_FLAGS[@]}" \
"${flake_ref}#nixosConfigurations.${target}.config.networking.hostName" 2>/dev/null
}
# flake_target_lxc_privileged <flake_ref> <target>
# Prints "true" or "false" for one lxc-* target's config.proxmoxLXC.privileged
# (modules/platforms/lxc.nix is the single source of truth -- e.g.
# lxc-docker sets this true so it can NFS-mount; every other lxc-* host
# stays unprivileged). Only meaningful for lxc-* targets -- the option
# doesn't exist for linode-*/proxmox-* (nixpkgs' proxmox-lxc.nix, which
# declares it, is only ever imported by modules/platforms/lxc.nix). Empty
# (not an error under set -e) if the eval fails.
flake_target_lxc_privileged() {
local flake_ref="$1" target="$2"
# Not --raw: the option is a Nix boolean, and --raw can only coerce
# strings ("cannot coerce a Boolean to a string"). Plain `nix eval`
# prints a bare `true`/`false` for a boolean, which is exactly the
# string this needs.
nix eval "${NIX_EVAL_FLAGS[@]}" \
"${flake_ref}#nixosConfigurations.${target}.config.proxmoxLXC.privileged" 2>/dev/null
}
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@@ -766,13 +766,22 @@ if [[ "$type" == "lxc" ]]; then
# 512M default otherwise (confirmed live: --memory 2048 left swap at
# 512). Default to matching whatever --memory resolved to above.
local_swap="${swap:-$memory}"
# --unprivileged 1: modules/platforms/lxc.nix sets proxmoxLXC.privileged
# = false, so the NixOS config inside the image assumes it's running as
# an unprivileged container (cgroup/capability/mount expectations baked
# in at boot). `pct create`'s own CLI default for this flag is
# privileged (unlike the web UI, which defaults its checkbox the other
# way) -- leaving it unset creates a privileged container running a
# NixOS config that assumes unprivileged, a real mismatch.
# --unprivileged: read back from modules/platforms/lxc.nix's own
# proxmoxLXC.privileged (via flake_target_lxc_privileged) rather than
# hardcoded, since that's no longer the same for every lxc-* target --
# lxc-docker sets it true so the container's NFS mounts work at all (the
# kernel's NFS client can't mount from inside any unprivileged
# container's user namespace, no matter what AppArmor allows -- see that
# option's own comment). The NixOS config inside the image bakes in
# cgroup/capability/mount expectations matching whichever value it was
# built with, so this must stay in sync with it -- `pct create`'s own
# CLI default for this flag is privileged (unlike the web UI, which
# defaults its checkbox the other way), so leaving it unset would create
# a privileged container running a NixOS config that assumes
# unprivileged for every target except lxc-docker, a real mismatch.
privileged_eval="$(flake_target_lxc_privileged "$repo_root" "$flake_target")"
unprivileged_flag=1
[[ "$privileged_eval" == "true" ]] && unprivileged_flag=0
#
# --features nesting=1,keyctl=1: required for a modern (v247+) systemd
# guest to actually boot unprivileged -- confirmed live: without this,
@@ -790,7 +799,7 @@ if [[ "$type" == "lxc" ]]; then
# hands the whole string to `ssh` as a single command for the *remote*
# shell to parse -- unquoted, that `;` would be read as a remote
# command separator and silently truncate this into two commands.
create_cmd="pct create ${vmid} ${iso_storage}:vztmpl/${remote_filename} --unprivileged 1 --features '${PROXMOX_DEFAULT_LXC_FEATURES}' --rootfs ${storage}:${local_disk_size} --hostname ${name} --cores ${cores} --memory ${memory} --swap ${local_swap} --net0 name=eth0,bridge=${bridge},ip=dhcp"
create_cmd="pct create ${vmid} ${iso_storage}:vztmpl/${remote_filename} --unprivileged ${unprivileged_flag} --features '${PROXMOX_DEFAULT_LXC_FEATURES}' --rootfs ${storage}:${local_disk_size} --hostname ${name} --cores ${cores} --memory ${memory} --swap ${local_swap} --net0 name=eth0,bridge=${bridge},ip=dhcp"
remote "$create_cmd"
remote "pct start ${vmid}"
else