secure-ntp: fix NTS defects surfaced by the F-03 bench

NTS proven end-to-end on comet-beacon-54 (chronyc authdata cookies > 0); these
close the gaps the bench found so a clean build/serving run reaches that state
without manual patching:

- dispatcher (10-chrony-dhcp-ntp): fall back to resolv.conf search/domain when NM
  doesn't export DHCP4_DOMAIN_NAME on the firing event, so the NTS source is
  written reliably at boot (tonight it needed a manual dispatcher run).
- STIG vs secure_ntp (P2, security): STIG's chronyd_specify_remote_server re-injects
  an UNAUTHENTICATED 'server 0.us.pool.ntp.mil maxpoll 16' AFTER the secure_ntp
  chrony step commented servers out -> a silent fallback that defeats NTS's
  DoS-only guarantee (host not fail-closed). Unselect chronyd_specify_remote_server
  + chronyd_or_ntpd_set_maxpoll in diskless-tailoring.xml, and re-strip any
  server/pool in 2c-STIG-postfix when secure_ntp=true. Documented: stig-deviations #17.
- nts-cert.sh (P3): the container's chrony user (non-root) can't read a 0640
  host-owned key -> NTS-KE TLS aborts ('non-properly terminated'). chown the key to
  the ntp container's chrony uid + keep 0640 (0644 works but chrony warns
  world-readable); 0644 fallback if the uid can't be found.

Bench-verified 2026-07-11; docs updated in docs/ssh-host-certificate-design.md's
sibling secure-ntp-design.md flow. F-03/P-18 stays open until a clean build shows
chrony.conf has no plain server and authdata cookies>0 as the only source.
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Audiobuzz
2026-07-11 11:21:46 +00:00
parent aab6c9919c
commit f9f7c7c940
5 changed files with 89 additions and 2 deletions
@@ -39,9 +39,15 @@ file="$dir/${interface}.sources"
mkdir -p "$dir"
if [ "$MODE" = nts ]; then
# Prefer option 15 (domain-name); fall back to the first option-119 search domain.
# Prefer option 15 (domain-name); fall back to the first option-119 search
# domain; finally fall back to resolv.conf's search/domain. NM does not export
# $DHCP4_DOMAIN_NAME on every dispatcher event — at boot the source wasn't
# written because the firing event carried no DHCP domain in env, yet
# resolv.conf already had `search <domain>` (bench 2026-07-11). Reading it here
# makes the NTS source get written reliably regardless of which event fires.
domain="${DHCP4_DOMAIN_NAME:-}"
[ -z "$domain" ] && domain="${DHCP4_DOMAIN_SEARCH%% *}"
[ -z "$domain" ] && domain=$(awk '/^(search|domain)[[:space:]]/{print $2; exit}' /etc/resolv.conf 2>/dev/null)
if [ -n "$domain" ]; then
printf 'server %s.%s iburst nts\n' "$PREFIX" "$domain" > "$file"
# Pick up the new source without restarting chronyd.