Add lxc-tor-relay build type with nyx monitoring

New tor-relay build type (currently lxc-only) running a plain Tor middle relay via modules/tor/enable-relay.nix, plus nyx for interactive monitoring over the relay's control socket. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-20 13:36:03 +00:00
parent 723212a81f
commit 91d8f8fab1
9 changed files with 77 additions and 10 deletions
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+{ pkgs, vars, ... }:
+
+{
+  services.tor = {
+    enable = true;
+
+    # Opens settings.ORPort (and DirPort, unset here) in the firewall —
+    # see the nixpkgs tor module's own networking.firewall.mkIf block.
+    openFirewall = true;
+
+    relay = {
+      enable = true;
+      # Plain middle/guard relay, not "exit" — relays onion traffic between
+      # other Tor nodes without ever making requests to the public internet
+      # on a user's behalf, avoiding the abuse complaints and legal exposure
+      # an exit node invites.
+      role = "relay";
+    };
+
+    settings.ORPort = vars.ports.torRelayOrPort;
+
+    # Unix control socket at /run/tor/control (GroupWritable, group "tor")
+    # -- what nyx below actually monitors the relay through. Nyx's own
+    # default control-socket path (/var/run/tor/control) resolves to the
+    # same place, so no extra nyx config is needed.
+    controlSocket.enable = true;
+  };
+
+  # Lets the primary user's shell session read/write the control socket
+  # above without being root -- otherwise nyx fails to authenticate against
+  # it at all.
+  users.users.${vars.primaryUser}.extraGroups = [ "tor" ];
+
+  environment.systemPackages = [ pkgs.nyx ];
+}