Qubes Mirage ssh-agent

A WIP ssh-agent Mirage unikernel for Qubes OS.

How to build

First, you need to install opam the OCaml package manager. Check out the instructions at http://opam.ocaml.org/doc/Install.html. Once installed it will use the system-installed OCaml compiler. You may have to compile a newer version of OCaml - for example version 4.02.3 is confirmed not to work (the version shipped with debian 9). Version 4.08.1 is confirmed to work. To compile 4.08.1, run opam switch install 4.08.1. Then run eval $(opam config env) as the command should tell you to do.

You should now have a working OCaml setup to continue.

opam install -y mirage

To compile:

mirage configure -t xen
make depends
make

There are external dependencies that you may have to install separately, e.g. perhaps curl. Please open an issue if you discover any missing steps.

Setup

The build produces a file qubes_ssh_agent.tar.bz2 that can be extracted to /var/lib/qubes/vm-kernels. See e.g. https://github.com/mirage/qubes-mirage-firewall#deploy on how to deploy the unikernel.

Dom0

Create a file /etc/qubes-rpc/policy/qubes.SshAgent with the policy you desire. A good start is $anyvm $anyvm ask.

Client DomU

Copy ssh-agent.socket and [email protected] to /etc/systemd/system/ in the client VM, and run systemctl start ssh-agent.socket; systemctl enable ssh-agent.socket. Then configure your shell to set SSH_AUTH_SOCK to /var/run/mirage-ssh-agent/qrexec.sock.