Declaratively trust nix-cache's SSH host key on remote-builder clients

Distributed builds failed with "Host key verification failed" on any
client that had never manually SSH'd to nix-cache before, since
nothing populated root's known_hosts for it. Wire nix-cache's host
public key into programs.ssh.knownHosts via a new vars.nixCacheHostKey
so every client picks it up automatically on rebuild.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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beatzaplentyandClaude Sonnet 5 committed 2026-07-20 17:21:48 +10:00
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@@ -5,6 +5,14 @@
# sudo install -d -m 0700 /root/.ssh
# sudo install -m 0600 ./nixremote /root/.ssh/nixremote
# sudo ssh -i /root/.ssh/nixremote nixremote@nix-cache nix-store --version
# Trust nix-cache's SSH host key declaratively so the nix-daemon (root)
# can connect the first time without a manual ssh-keyscan/known_hosts
# step on every new client.
programs.ssh.knownHosts.${vars.nixCacheHost} = {
hostNames = [ vars.nixCacheHost ];
publicKey = vars.nixCacheHostKey;
};
nix = {
distributedBuilds = true;