#!/usr/bin/env -S bash -e # Cleaning the TTY. clear # Updating the live environment pacman -Syu # Installing curl pacman -S --noconfirm curl # Selecting the kernel flavor to install. kernel_selector () { echo "List of kernels:" echo "1) Stable — Vanilla Linux kernel and modules, with a few patches applied." echo "2) Hardened — A security-focused Linux kernel." echo "3) Longterm — Long-term support (LTS) Linux kernel and modules." echo "4) Zen Kernel — Optimized for desktop usage." read -r -p "Insert the number of the corresponding kernel: " choice echo "$choice will be installed" case $choice in 1 ) kernel=linux ;; 2 ) kernel=linux-hardened ;; 3 ) kernel=linux-lts ;; 4 ) kernel=linux-zen ;; * ) echo "You did not enter a valid selection." kernel_selector esac } # Checking the microcode to install. CPU=$(grep vendor_id /proc/cpuinfo) if [[ $CPU == *"AuthenticAMD"* ]]; then microcode=amd-ucode else microcode=intel-ucode fi # Selecting the target for the installation. PS3="Select the disk where Arch Linux is going to be installed: " select ENTRY in $(lsblk -dpnoNAME|grep -P "/dev/sd|nvme|vd"); do DISK=$ENTRY echo "Installing Arch Linux on $DISK." break done # Deleting old partition scheme. read -r -p "This will delete the current partition table on $DISK. Do you agree [y/N]? " response response=${response,,} if [[ "$response" =~ ^(yes|y)$ ]]; then wipefs -af "$DISK" &>/dev/null sgdisk -Zo "$DISK" &>/dev/null else echo "Quitting." exit fi # Creating a new partition scheme. echo "Creating new partition scheme on $DISK." parted -s "$DISK" \ mklabel gpt \ mkpart ESP fat32 1MiB 101MiB \ set 1 esp on \ mkpart cryptroot 101MiB 100% \ ESP="/dev/disk/by-partlabel/ESP" cryptroot="/dev/disk/by-partlabel/cryptroot" # Informing the Kernel of the changes. echo "Informing the Kernel about the disk changes." partprobe "$DISK" # Formatting the ESP as FAT32. echo "Formatting the EFI Partition as FAT32." mkfs.fat -F 32 $ESP &>/dev/null # Creating a LUKS Container for the root partition. echo "Creating LUKS Container for the root partition." cryptsetup luksFormat --type luks1 $cryptroot echo "Opening the newly created LUKS Container." cryptsetup open $cryptroot cryptroot BTRFS="/dev/mapper/cryptroot" # Formatting the LUKS Container as BTRFS. echo "Formatting the LUKS container as BTRFS." mkfs.btrfs $BTRFS &>/dev/null mount $BTRFS /mnt # Creating BTRFS subvolumes. echo "Creating BTRFS subvolumes." btrfs su cr /mnt/@ &>/dev/null btrfs su cr /mnt/@/.snapshots &>/dev/null mkdir -p /mnt/@/.snapshots/1 &>/dev/null btrfs su cr /mnt/@/.snapshots/1/snapshot &>/dev/null btrfs su cr /mnt/@/boot/ &>/dev/null btrfs su cr /mnt/@/home &>/dev/null btrfs su cr /mnt/@/root &>/dev/null btrfs su cr /mnt/@/srv &>/dev/null btrfs su cr /mnt/@/var_log &>/dev/null btrfs su cr /mnt/@/var_log_journal &>/dev/null btrfs su cr /mnt/@/var_crash &>/dev/null btrfs su cr /mnt/@/var_cache &>/dev/null btrfs su cr /mnt/@/var_tmp &>/dev/null btrfs su cr /mnt/@/var_spool &>/dev/null btrfs su cr /mnt/@/var_lib_libvirt_images &>/dev/null btrfs su cr /mnt/@/var_lib_machines &>/dev/null btrfs su cr /mnt/@/var_lib_gdm &>/dev/null btrfs su cr /mnt/@/var_lib_AccountsService &>/dev/null btrfs su cr /mnt/@/cryptkey &>/dev/null chattr +C /mnt/@/boot chattr +C /mnt/@/srv chattr +C /mnt/@/var_log chattr +C /mnt/@/var_log_journal chattr +C /mnt/@/var_crash chattr +C /mnt/@/var_cache chattr +C /mnt/@/var_tmp chattr +C /mnt/@/var_spool chattr +C /mnt/@/var_lib_libvirt_images chattr +C /mnt/@/var_lib_machines chattr +C /mnt/@/var_lib_gdm chattr +C /mnt/@/var_lib_AccountsService chattr +C /mnt/@/cryptkey #Set the default BTRFS Subvol to Snapshot 1 before pacstrapping btrfs subvolume set-default "$(btrfs subvolume list /mnt | grep "@/.snapshots/1/snapshot" | grep -oP '(?<=ID )[0-9]+')" /mnt cat << EOF >> /mnt/@/.snapshots/1/info.xml single 1 1999-03-31 0:00:00 First Root Filesystem number EOF chmod 600 /mnt/@/.snapshots/1/info.xml # Mounting the newly created subvolumes. umount /mnt echo "Mounting the newly created subvolumes." mount -o ssd,noatime,space_cache,compress=zstd:15 $BTRFS /mnt mkdir -p /mnt/{boot,root,home,.snapshots,srv,tmp,/var/log,/var/log/journal,/var/crash,/var/cache,/var/tmp,/var/spool,/var/lib/libvirt/images,/var/lib/machines,/var/lib/gdm,/var/lib/AccountsService,/cryptkey} mount -o ssd,noatime,space_cache=v2,autodefrag,compress=zstd:15,discard=async,nodev,nosuid,noexec,subvol=@/boot $BTRFS /mnt/boot mount -o ssd,noatime,space_cache=v2,autodefrag,compress=zstd:15,discard=async,nodev,nosuid,subvol=@/root $BTRFS /mnt/root mount -o ssd,noatime,space_cache=v2.autodefrag,compress=zstd:15,discard=async,nodev,nosuid,subvol=@/home $BTRFS /mnt/home mount -o ssd,noatime,space_cache=v2,autodefrag,compress=zstd:15,discard=async,subvol=@/.snapshots $BTRFS /mnt/.snapshots mount -o ssd,noatime,space_cache=v2.autodefrag,compress=zstd:15,discard=async,subvol=@/srv $BTRFS /mnt/srv mount -o ssd,noatime,space_cache=v2,autodefrag,compress=zstd:15,discard=async,nodatacow,nodev,nosuid,noexec,subvol=@/var_log $BTRFS /mnt/var/log # Toolbox (https://github.com/containers/toolbox) needs /var/log/journal to have dev, suid, and exec. Thus I am splitting the subvolume. mount -o ssd,noatime,space_cache=v2,autodefrag,compress=zstd:15,discard=async,nodatacow,subvol=@/var_log_journal $BTRFS /mnt/var/log/journal mount -o ssd,noatime,space_cache=v2,autodefrag,compress=zstd:15,discard=async,nodatacow,nodev,nosuid,noexec,subvol=@/var_crash $BTRFS /mnt/var/crash mount -o ssd,noatime,space_cache=v2,autodefrag,compress=zstd:15,discard=async,nodatacow,nodev,nosuid,noexec,subvol=@/var_cache $BTRFS /mnt/var/cache # Pamac needs /var/tmp to have exec. Thus I am not adding that flag. # I am considering including pacmac-flatpak-gnome AUR package by default, since I am its maintainer. mount -o ssd,noatime,space_cache=v2,autodefrag,compress=zstd:15,discard=async,nodatacow,nodev,nosuid,subvol=@/var_tmp $BTRFS /mnt/var/tmp mount -o ssd,noatime,space_cache=v2,autodefrag,compress=zstd:15,discard=async,nodatacow,nodev,nosuid,noexec,subvol=@/var_spool $BTRFS /mnt/var/spool mount -o ssd,noatime,space_cache=v2,autodefrag,compress=zstd:15,discard=async,nodatacow,nodev,nosuid,noexec,subvol=@/var_lib_libvirt_images $BTRFS /mnt/var/lib/libvirt/images mount -o ssd,noatime,space_cache=v2,autodefrag,compress=zstd:15,discard=async,nodatacow,nodev,nosuid,noexec,subvol=@/var_lib_machines $BTRFS /mnt/var/lib/machines # GNOME requires /var/lib/gdm and /var/lib/AccountsService to be writeable when booting into a readonly snapshot. Thus we sadly have to split them. mount -o ssd,noatime,space_cache=v2,autodefrag,compress=zstd:15,discard=async,nodatacow,nodev,nosuid,noexec,subvol=@/var_lib_gdm $BTRFS /mnt/var/lib/gdm mount -o ssd,noatime,space_cache=v2,autodefrag,compress=zstd:15,discard=async,nodatacow,nodev,nosuid,noexec,subvol=@/var_lib_AccountsService $BTRFS /mnt/var/lib/AccountsService # The encryption is splitted as we do not want to include it in the backup with snap-pac. mount -o ssd,noatime,space_cache=v2,autodefrag,compress=zstd:15,discard=async,nodatacow,nodev,nosuid,noexec,subvol=@/cryptkey $BTRFS /mnt/cryptkey mkdir -p /mnt/boot/efi mount -o nodev,nosuid,noexec $ESP /mnt/boot/efi kernel_selector # Pacstrap (setting up a base sytem onto the new root). # As I said above, I am considering replacing gnome-software with pamac-flatpak-gnome as PackageKit seems very buggy on Arch Linux right now. echo "Installing the base system (it may take a while)." pacstrap /mnt base ${kernel} ${microcode} linux-firmware grub grub-btrfs snapper snap-pac efibootmgr sudo networkmanager apparmor python2-notify python-psutil chrony nano gdm gnome-control-center gnome-terminal gnome-software gnome-software-packagekit-plugin gnome-tweaks nautilus pipewire-pulse pipewire-alsa pipewire-jack flatpak firewalld zram-generator adobe-source-han-sans-otc-fonts adobe-source-han-serif-otc-fonts gnu-free-fonts reflector mlocate man-db # Routing jack2 through PipeWire. echo "/usr/lib/pipewire-0.3/jack" > /mnt/etc/ld.so.conf.d/pipewire-jack.conf # Generating /etc/fstab. echo "Generating a new fstab." genfstab -U /mnt >> /mnt/etc/fstab sed -i 's#,subvolid=258,subvol=/@/.snapshots/1/snapshot,subvol=@/.snapshots/1/snapshot##g' /mnt/etc/fstab # Setting hostname. read -r -p "Please enter the hostname: " hostname echo "$hostname" > /mnt/etc/hostname # Setting hosts file. echo "Setting hosts file." cat > /mnt/etc/hosts < /mnt/etc/locale.gen echo "LANG=$locale.UTF-8" > /mnt/etc/locale.conf # Setting up keyboard layout. read -r -p "Please insert the keyboard layout you use: " kblayout echo "KEYMAP=$kblayout" > /mnt/etc/vconsole.conf # Configuring /etc/mkinitcpio.conf echo "Configuring /etc/mkinitcpio for ZSTD compression and LUKS hook." sed -i 's,#COMPRESSION="zstd",COMPRESSION="zstd",g' /mnt/etc/mkinitcpio.conf sed -i 's,modconf block filesystems keyboard,keyboard modconf block encrypt filesystems,g' /mnt/etc/mkinitcpio.conf # Enabling LUKS in GRUB and setting the UUID of the LUKS container. UUID=$(blkid $cryptroot | cut -f2 -d'"') sed -i 's/#\(GRUB_ENABLE_CRYPTODISK=y\)/\1/' /mnt/etc/default/grub echo "" >> /mnt/etc/default/grub echo -e "# Booting with BTRFS subvolume\nGRUB_BTRFS_OVERRIDE_BOOT_PARTITION_DETECTION=true" >> /mnt/etc/default/grub sed -i 's#rootflags=subvol=${rootsubvol}##g' /mnt/etc/grub.d/10_linux sed -i 's#rootflags=subvol=${rootsubvol}##g' /mnt/etc/grub.d/20_linux_xen # Enabling CPU Mitigations curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Whonix/security-misc/master/etc/default/grub.d/40_cpu_mitigations.cfg >> /mnt/etc/grub.d/40_cpu_mitigations # Distrusting the CPU curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Whonix/security-misc/master/etc/default/grub.d/40_distrust_cpu.cfg >> /mnt/etc/grub.d/40_distrust_cpu # Enabling IOMMU curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Whonix/security-misc/master/etc/default/grub.d/40_enable_iommu.cfg >> /mnt/etc/grub.d/40_enable_iommu # Enabling NTS curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/GrapheneOS/infrastructure/main/chrony.conf >> /mnt/etc/chrony.conf # Setting GRUB configuration file permissions chmod 755 /mnt/etc/grub.d/* # Adding keyfile to the initramfs to avoid double password. dd bs=512 count=4 if=/dev/random of=/mnt/cryptkey/.root.key iflag=fullblock &>/dev/null chmod 000 /mnt/cryptkey/.root.key &>/dev/null cryptsetup -v luksAddKey /dev/disk/by-partlabel/cryptroot /mnt/cryptkey/.root.key sed -i "s#quiet#cryptdevice=UUID=$UUID:cryptroot root=$BTRFS lsm=landlock,lockdown,yama,apparmor,bpf cryptkey=rootfs:/cryptkey/.root.key#g" /mnt/etc/default/grub sed -i 's#FILES=()#FILES=(/cryptkey/.root.key)#g' /mnt/etc/mkinitcpio.conf # Configure AppArmor Parser caching sed -i 's/#write-cache/write-cache/g' /etc/apparmor/parser.conf sed -i 's,#Include /etc/apparmor.d/,Include /etc/apparmor.d/#g' /etc/apparmor/parser.conf # Blacklisting kernel modules curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Whonix/security-misc/master/etc/modprobe.d/30_security-misc.conf >> /mnt/etc/modprobe.d/30_security-misc.conf chmod 600 /mnt/etc/modprobe.d/* # Security kernel settings. curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Whonix/security-misc/master/etc/sysctl.d/30_security-misc.conf >> /mnt/etc/sysctl.d/30_security-misc.conf sed -i 's/kernel.yama.ptrace_scope=2/kernel.yama.ptrace_scope=3/g' /mnt/etc/sysctl.d/30_security-misc.conf curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Whonix/security-misc/master/etc/sysctl.d/30_silent-kernel-printk.conf >> /mnt/etc/sysctl.d/30_silent-kernel-printk.conf chmod 600 /mnt/etc/sysctl.d/* # Remove nullok from system-auth sed -i 's/nullok//g' /mnt/etc/pam.d/system-auth # Disable coredump echo "* hard core 0" >> /mnt/etc/security/limits.conf # Disable su for non-wheel users bash -c 'cat > /mnt/etc/pam.d/su' <<-'EOF' #%PAM-1.0 auth sufficient pam_rootok.so # Uncomment the following line to implicitly trust users in the "wheel" group. #auth sufficient pam_wheel.so trust use_uid # Uncomment the following line to require a user to be in the "wheel" group. auth required pam_wheel.so use_uid auth required pam_unix.so account required pam_unix.so session required pam_unix.so EOF # ZRAM configuration bash -c 'cat > /mnt/etc/systemd/zram-generator.conf' <<-'EOF' [zram0] zram-fraction = 1 max-zram-size = 8192 EOF # Randomize Mac Address. bash -c 'cat > /mnt/etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/00-macrandomize.conf' <<-'EOF' [device] wifi.scan-rand-mac-address=yes [connection] wifi.cloned-mac-address=random ethernet.cloned-mac-address=random connection.stable-id=${CONNECTION}/${BOOT} EOF chmod 600 /mnt/etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/00-macrandomize.conf # Disable Connectivity Check. bash -c 'cat > /mnt/etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/20-connectivity.conf' <<-'EOF' [connectivity] uri=http://www.archlinux.org/check_network_status.txt interval=0 EOF chmod 600 /mnt/etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/20-connectivity.conf # Enable IPv6 privacy extensions bash -c 'cat > /mnt/etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/ip6-privacy.conf' <<-'EOF' [connection] ipv6.ip6-privacy=2 EOF chmod 600 /mnt/etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/ip6-privacy.conf # Configuring the system. arch-chroot /mnt /bin/bash -e </dev/null # Setting up clock. hwclock --systohc # Generating locales.my keys aren't even on echo "Generating locales." locale-gen &>/dev/null # Generating a new initramfs. echo "Creating a new initramfs." chmod 600 /boot/initramfs-linux* &>/dev/null mkinitcpio -P &>/dev/null # Snapper configuration umount /.snapshots rm -r /.snapshots snapper --no-dbus -c root create-config / btrfs subvolume delete /.snapshots mkdir /.snapshots mount -a chmod 750 /.snapshots # Installing GRUB. echo "Installing GRUB on /boot." grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot/efi --bootloader-id=GRUB --modules="normal test efi_gop efi_uga search echo linux all_video gfxmenu gfxterm_background gfxterm_menu gfxterm loadenv configfile gzio part_gtp cryptodisk luks gcry_rijndael gcry_sha256 btrfs" --disable-shim-lock &>/dev/null # Creating grub config file. echo "Creating GRUB config file." grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg &>/dev/null # Adding user with sudo privilege if [ -n "$username" ]; then echo "Adding $username with root privilege." useradd -m $username usermod -aG wheel $username passwd ${USER} groupadd -r audit gpasswd -a ${USER} audit fi EOF # Enanble AppArmor notifications bash -c 'cat > /mnt/home/${USER}/.config/autostart/apparmor-notify.desktop' <<-'EOF' [Desktop Entry] Type=Application Name=AppArmor Notify Comment=Receive on screen notifications of AppArmor denials TryExec=aa-notify Exec=aa-notify -p -s 1 -w 60 -f /var/log/audit/audit.log StartupNotify=false NoDisplay=true EOF # Setting root password. echo "Setting root password." arch-chroot /mnt /bin/passwd [ -n "$username" ] && echo "Setting user password for ${username}." && arch-chroot /mnt /bin/passwd "$username" # Giving wheel user sudo access. sed -i 's/# %wheel ALL=(ALL) ALL/%wheel ALL=(ALL) ALL/g' /mnt/etc/sudoers # Change audit logging group echo "log_group = audit" >> /etc/audit/auditd.conf # Enabling audit service. systemctl enable auditd --root=/mnt &>/dev/null # Enabling auto-trimming service. systemctl enable fstrim.timer --root=/mnt &>/dev/null # Enabling NetworkManager. systemctl enable NetworkManager --root=/mnt &>/dev/null # Enabling GDM. systemctl enable gdm --root=/mnt &>/dev/null # Enabling AppArmor. echo "Enabling AppArmor." systemctl enable apparmor --root=/mnt &>/dev/null # Enabling Firewalld. echo "Enabling Firewalld." systemctl enable firewalld --root=/mnt &>/dev/null # Enabling Bluetooth Service (This is only to fix the visual glitch with gnome where it gets stuck in the menu at the top right). # IF YOU WANT TO USE BLUETOOTH, YOU MUST REMOVE IT FROM THE LIST OF BLACKLISTED KERNEL MODULES IN /mnt/etc/modprobe.d/30_security-misc.conf systemctl enable bluetooth --root=/mnt &>/dev/null # Enabling Reflector timer. echo "Enabling Reflector." systemctl enable reflector.timer --root=/mnt &>/dev/null # Enabling systemd-oomd. echo "Enabling systemd-oomd." systemctl enable systemd-oomd --root=/mnt &>/dev/null # Disabling systemd-timesyncd systemctl disable systemd-timesyncd --root=/mnt &>/dev/null # Enabling chronyd systemctl enable chronyd --root=/mnt &>/dev/null # Enabling Snapper automatic snapshots. echo "Enabling Snapper and automatic snapshots entries." systemctl enable snapper-timeline.timer --root=/mnt &>/dev/null systemctl enable snapper-cleanup.timer --root=/mnt &>/dev/null systemctl enable grub-btrfs.path --root=/mnt &>/dev/null # Setting umask to 077. sed -i 's/022/077/g' /mnt/etc/profile echo "" >> /mnt/etc/bash.bashrc echo "umask 077" >> /mnt/etc/bash.bashrc # Finishing up echo "Done, you may now wish to reboot (further changes can be done by chrooting into /mnt)." exit