meta-app-framework: applaunchd: run under a separate user

Since applaunchd needs to start/stop systemd units, the user is granted
elevated systemd unit-management permissions via PolKit policy. If applaunchd
and all the apps run under the same agl-driver user, all the apps have these
elevated systemd permissions too. Separating them into different users allows
removing elevated systemd unit-management permission from individual apps, but
leaving such permission for applaunchd, which enhances overall security of
the system.

- add new applaunchd user and group
- switch applaunchd (gRPC) service to be started under new user
- since HTML5 apps haven't migrated to gRPC yet and still use D-Bus API,
  applaunchd-dbus gets activated by agl-session and runs under agl-driver
- temporarily add agl-driver user into the applaunchd group and switch
  PolKit policy to check for applaunchd group, instead of the user
- once D-Bus API is completely deprecated, agl-driver user can be removed
  from applaunchd group

Bug-AGL: SPEC-4579
Signed-off-by: Denys Dmytriyenko <denys@konsulko.com>
Change-Id: I75384177578bba6cb458a81df6a9dc1738c972e0
Reviewed-on: https://gerrit.automotivelinux.org/gerrit/c/AGL/meta-agl/+/28039
Tested-by: Jenkins Job builder account
ci-image-build: Jenkins Job builder account
ci-image-boot-test: Jenkins Job builder account
Reviewed-by: Jan-Simon Moeller <jsmoeller@linuxfoundation.org>

2 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/meta-app-framework/recipes-config/agl-session/agl-session_0.1.bb b/meta-app-framework/recipes-config/agl-session/agl-session_0.1.bb
index ecad1615d..067f2a6e4 100644
--- a/meta-app-framework/recipes-config/agl-session/agl-session_0.1.bb
+++ b/meta-app-framework/recipes-config/agl-session/agl-session_0.1.bb
@@ -17,9 +17,13 @@ GROUPADD_PARAM:${PN} = "\
 	--system video ; \
 	--system pipewire ; \
 	-g 1001 agl-driver ; \
+	-g 1003 applaunchd ; \
 "
+# agl-driver user needs to be part of applaunchd group for D-Bus activation to still work
+# should be removed after everything is converted to gRPC for enhanced security
 USERADD_PARAM:${PN} = "\
-  -g 1001 -u 1001 -G video,display,pipewire -o -d /home/agl-driver -m -K PASS_MAX_DAYS=-1 agl-driver ; \
+  -g 1001 -u 1001 -G video,display,pipewire,applaunchd -o -d /home/agl-driver -m -K PASS_MAX_DAYS=-1 agl-driver ; \
+  -g 1003 -u 1003 -o -d / -K PASS_MAX_DAYS=-1 applaunchd ; \
 "
 
 SYSTEMD_PACKAGES = "${PN}"
diff --git a/meta-app-framework/recipes-config/polkit-rule-agl-app/files/50-agl-app.rules b/meta-app-framework/recipes-config/polkit-rule-agl-app/files/50-agl-app.rules
index dd4b6940d..35b9559c5 100644
--- a/meta-app-framework/recipes-config/polkit-rule-agl-app/files/50-agl-app.rules
+++ b/meta-app-framework/recipes-config/polkit-rule-agl-app/files/50-agl-app.rules
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 polkit.addRule(function(action, subject) {
     if (action.id == "org.freedesktop.systemd1.manage-units" &&
         action.lookup("unit").indexOf("agl-app") == 0 &&
-        subject.user == "agl-driver") {
+        subject.isInGroup("applaunchd")) {
         return polkit.Result.YES;
     }
 });