fix(proxmox): embed SSH host key via NIXOS_HOST_KEYS_DIR so sops can decrypt on first boot
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--pre-format-files placed the key on the QEMU builder VM's rootfs, not the
target disk. nixos-install chroots into the target and runs sshd-keygen, which
found no key in the chroot and generated a fresh (unregistered) one. sops then
could not decrypt on first boot because the key didn't match .sops.yaml, leaving
both root and nixos with '!' in /etc/shadow even after mutableUsers = false was
set (hashedPasswordFile pointed to paths sops never wrote).

Fix modules/platforms/proxmox.nix to embed the clan SSH host key in
environment.etc via NIXOS_HOST_KEYS_DIR at eval time -- the same pattern
lxc.nix uses. nixos-install's own activation places the key on the target disk,
sshd-keygen finds it already present and skips generation, and sops decrypts
correctly on first boot. Includes the same preserveSshHostKey/restoreSshHostKey
activation scripts as lxc.nix so subsequent nixos-rebuild switch calls (without
NIXOS_HOST_KEYS_DIR) don't remove the key as "obsolete" from environment.etc.

Update create-proxmox-resource.sh: switch VM builds from
  ./result-<target> --pre-format-files ... --build-memory 2048
to
  NIXOS_HOST_KEYS_DIR=$(pwd)/host-keys nix build --impure ... diskoImagesScript
  ./result-<target> --build-memory 2048
matching the LXC build path.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_011uRcikkTp3D5VbXj2DwNpQ
This commit is contained in:
2026-07-26 08:54:39 +10:00
co-authored by Claude Sonnet 4.6
parent 5467c2e140
commit 6e1e992652
2 changed files with 90 additions and 11 deletions
+17 -10
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@@ -784,12 +784,9 @@ REMOTE_SCRIPT
fi
else
if [[ "$dry_run" -eq 1 ]]; then
echo "[dry-run] would build on ${node}: nix build --no-use-registries --no-accept-flake-config${nix_opts_display} \\"
echo "[dry-run] would build on ${node}: NIXOS_HOST_KEYS_DIR=\$(pwd)/host-keys nix build --impure --no-use-registries --no-accept-flake-config${nix_opts_display} \\"
echo "[dry-run] .#nixosConfigurations.${flake_target}.config.system.build.diskoImagesScript"
echo "[dry-run] would run: ${sudo_display}./result-${flake_target} \\"
echo "[dry-run] --pre-format-files host-keys/${flake_target}_ssh_host_ed25519_key /etc/ssh/ssh_host_ed25519_key \\"
echo "[dry-run] --pre-format-files host-keys/${flake_target}_ssh_host_ed25519_key.pub /etc/ssh/ssh_host_ed25519_key.pub \\"
echo "[dry-run] --build-memory 2048"
echo "[dry-run] would run: ${sudo_display}./result-${flake_target} --build-memory 2048"
echo "[dry-run] image will be at ${vm_built_raw} (imported from there; no mv to /var/lib/vz/import/)"
local_image="<built-image>.raw"
else
@@ -797,6 +794,14 @@ REMOTE_SCRIPT
# See the LXC branch above for why this is one %q-quoted command
# string rather than separate ssh argv elements.
# $7 = image_name (hostname, the diskoImagesScript's own output filename).
#
# NIXOS_HOST_KEYS_DIR + --impure: modules/platforms/proxmox.nix reads
# this env var at eval time (like lxc.nix) to embed the clan SSH host
# key in environment.etc. nixos-install's own activation then places the
# key on the target disk, so sshd-keygen finds it already present and
# skips generation. --pre-format-files put the key on the QEMU builder
# VM's rootfs (not the target disk), so sshd-keygen regenerated a fresh
# key -- one not registered in .sops.yaml -- and sops could never decrypt.
printf -v remote_cmd 'bash -s -- %q %q %q %q %q %q %q' \
"$remote_repo_dir" "$flake_target" "$remote_dir" "$remote_filename" "$NIX_EXTRA_OPTS" "$sudo_prefix" "$host"
ssh "$ssh_target" "$remote_cmd" <<'REMOTE_SCRIPT'
@@ -813,16 +818,18 @@ if [[ ! -f "host-keys/${target}_ssh_host_ed25519_key" ]]; then
echo "and ensure it was synced here before starting the build." >&2
exit 1
fi
nix build --no-use-registries --no-accept-flake-config "${NIX_OPTS[@]}" \
# Build diskoImagesScript with NIXOS_HOST_KEYS_DIR so proxmox.nix embeds the
# clan SSH key in environment.etc (same as lxc.nix). This causes nixos-install
# to place the key on the target disk, so sshd-keygen finds it and skips
# generation -- the disk image boots with the registered key, sops decrypts.
NIXOS_HOST_KEYS_DIR="$(pwd)/host-keys" nix build --impure \
--no-use-registries --no-accept-flake-config "${NIX_OPTS[@]}" \
".#nixosConfigurations.${target}.config.system.build.diskoImagesScript" \
--out-link "result-${target}"
# Remove any stale .raw from a previous failed build so the post-build check
# below is unambiguous (diskoImagesScript writes to CWD as ${image_name}.raw).
$sudo_pfx rm -f "${image_name}.raw" 2>/dev/null || true
$sudo_pfx "./result-${target}" \
--pre-format-files "$(pwd)/host-keys/${target}_ssh_host_ed25519_key" /etc/ssh/ssh_host_ed25519_key \
--pre-format-files "$(pwd)/host-keys/${target}_ssh_host_ed25519_key.pub" /etc/ssh/ssh_host_ed25519_key.pub \
--build-memory 2048
$sudo_pfx "./result-${target}" --build-memory 2048
if [[ ! -f "${image_name}.raw" ]]; then
echo "ERROR: ${image_name}.raw not found in ${repo_dir} after build -- disko/QEMU may have failed." >&2
exit 1