tb-updater do not populate home directory at first boot?

phabricator-migrator · February 19, 2024, 5:41pm

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ID: 781
PHID: PHID-TASK-arozqyokt4wx3whnyuen
Author: Patrick
Status at Migration Time: resolved
Priority at Migration Time: Normal

Description

github.com/Kicksecure/tb-updater

tb-updater do not populate home directory at first boot

opened 06:44PM - 22 Mar 18 UTC

closed 08:49PM - 13 Jun 18 UTC

marmarek

On Qubes 4.0, tor browser isn't copied into user home directory on first VM star…tup. It is caused by this code: https://github.com/Whonix/tb-updater/blob/1766f0222e6502f5b43d9e4938a64ca8a24b500d/usr/lib/tb-updater/first-boot-home-population#L10-L14 The flag file is stored in /var/cache (which is shared between TemplateVM and TemplateBasedVMs), so if home directory is populated in the template itself (if for any reason check for being TemplateVM fails), then no further TemplateBasedVM will receive tor browser. Especially, this breaks DispVMs based on whonix-ws-dvm, because it tries to download tor browser at each start. I'm not sure why check for TemplateVM fails, but regardless of investigating it, I propose moving flag file into user home (something that have the same persistence property as actual provisioned tor browser).

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Patrick

2018-04-02 12:51:55 UTC