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Pre-seed SSH host keys so sops-nix secrets decrypt on first boot
sops-nix (in the nixos flake) derives each host's age decryption key from its own /etc/ssh/ssh_host_ed25519_key at activation time, which runs before systemd would otherwise generate that key on first boot (sshd-keygen is a plain systemd service gated behind multi-user.target; activation scripts run earlier). Without pre-seeding, secrets -- including the login password -- fail to decrypt on a fresh install's very first boot. - scripts/prepare-host-key.sh: run on the admin workstation before an install, generates the host's ed25519 keypair and prints the exact steps to register its derived age key in nixos/.sops.yaml and re-encrypt the affected secrets/*.yaml files. - common.nix's auto-install.sh: after disko mounts /mnt and before nixos-install, installs a pre-seeded key from /root/host-keys/ into /mnt/etc/ssh/ if present, otherwise warns and asks for confirmation before continuing without one. - installer.nix now imports common.nix (previously only proxmox-lxc.nix did), so the ISO/netboot path used for EFI VM installs gets the same auto-install.sh and pre-seed check, not just the LXC path. - Also fixes a pre-existing stray backtick in the disko invocation that broke auto-install.sh's bash syntax entirely, independent of this change (found while rendering the script to verify the new logic). README.md documents the new pre-flight workflow. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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if nix eval --refresh --json --extra-experimental-features "flakes nix-command" "''${FLAKE_BASE_URL}#nixosConfigurations.''${choice}.config.disko.devices.disk.main.device" >/dev/null 2>&1; then
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disko --mode destroy,format,mount \
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--flake "''${FLAKE_BASE_URL}#''${choice}" --yes`
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--flake "''${FLAKE_BASE_URL}#''${choice}" --yes
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else
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echo "Selected host has no Disko configuration."
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fi
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# sops-nix derives this host's decryption key from its own SSH host key
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# at *activation* time, which runs before systemd would otherwise
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# generate one on first boot. Without pre-seeding it here, secrets
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# (including the login password) fail to decrypt on first boot.
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# Generate the key + register it with `nixos`'s sops-nix setup ahead of
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# time (see nix-auto-installer/scripts/prepare-host-key.sh), then scp it
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# to /root/host-keys/ on this machine before continuing.
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mkdir -p /root/host-keys
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if [[ -f "/root/host-keys/''${choice}_ssh_host_ed25519_key" ]]; then
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echo "Found pre-seeded SSH host key for ''${choice}, installing to target..."
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install -D -m 0600 "/root/host-keys/''${choice}_ssh_host_ed25519_key" /mnt/etc/ssh/ssh_host_ed25519_key
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install -D -m 0644 "/root/host-keys/''${choice}_ssh_host_ed25519_key.pub" /mnt/etc/ssh/ssh_host_ed25519_key.pub
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else
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echo "WARNING: no pre-seeded host key found at /root/host-keys/''${choice}_ssh_host_ed25519_key"
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echo "sops-nix secrets (including the login password) will NOT decrypt on first boot."
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echo "Run scripts/prepare-host-key.sh for host ''${choice} on your admin workstation first,"
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echo "then scp the result here, if this host needs sops-nix secrets."
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read -rp "Continue without a pre-seeded key anyway? (y/N): " skip_key
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if [[ ! "$skip_key" =~ ^[Yy]$ ]]; then
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echo "Aborted."
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exit 1
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fi
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fi
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mkdir -p /mnt/install-tmp
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export TMPDIR=/mnt/install-tmp
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