fix(common): set mutableUsers = false to fix password setup on disk images
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When a proxmox-* disk image is built, activation runs during the image
build without a valid sops age key (the SSH host key doesn't exist yet),
so root and nixos land in /etc/shadow with locked '!' entries. With the
default mutableUsers = true, update-users-groups.pl preserves existing
shadow entries for accounts that already exist, so hashedPasswordFile is
silently ignored on every subsequent boot — passwords are never fixed.

Setting mutableUsers = false forces update-users-groups.pl to apply
hashedPasswordFile unconditionally on every activation. On first real
boot the sops-decrypted hash is now written regardless of whether the
account already existed in shadow from the image build.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_011uRcikkTp3D5VbXj2DwNpQ
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2026-07-26 07:36:06 +10:00
co-authored by Claude Sonnet 4.6
parent 096dff4fa0
commit dfa5452af5
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@@ -61,24 +61,32 @@
!include ${config.sops.templates."nix-github-token.conf".path}
'';
#Set root password
users.users.root = {
hashedPasswordFile = config.sops.secrets."root-hashedPassword".path;
};
users = {
# With mutableUsers = false, update-users-groups.pl enforces hashedPasswordFile
# on every activation regardless of whether the account already exists in
# /etc/shadow. The default (true) only applies hashedPasswordFile to newly-
# created accounts — which means a freshly-built proxmox disk image (where
# activation runs without a usable sops key, so both accounts land in shadow
# with !) will never have its passwords fixed by subsequent boots.
mutableUsers = false;
# Define a user account. Don't forget to set a password with passwd.
users.users.${vars.primaryUser} = {
isNormalUser = true;
extraGroups = [ "wheel" ]; # Enable sudo for the user.
packages = with pkgs; [
tree
];
hashedPasswordFile = config.sops.secrets."nixos-hashedPassword".path;
openssh.authorizedKeys.keys = [
vars.adminSshKey
"ssh-ed25519 AAAAC3NzaC1lZDI1NTE5AAAAICMJhrfFayLBG+gWtO6oAvgambw5nWWgztiTFEaaaVRH debian@surface"
"ssh-ed25519 AAAAC3NzaC1lZDI1NTE5AAAAIGygkCljN6uKpdJbHTOQtn8ZnH+wKXDLAwrDFbLrE/65 nixos@nixos"
];
users.root = {
hashedPasswordFile = config.sops.secrets."root-hashedPassword".path;
};
users.${vars.primaryUser} = {
isNormalUser = true;
extraGroups = [ "wheel" ]; # Enable sudo for the user.
packages = with pkgs; [
tree
];
hashedPasswordFile = config.sops.secrets."nixos-hashedPassword".path;
openssh.authorizedKeys.keys = [
vars.adminSshKey
"ssh-ed25519 AAAAC3NzaC1lZDI1NTE5AAAAICMJhrfFayLBG+gWtO6oAvgambw5nWWgztiTFEaaaVRH debian@surface"
"ssh-ed25519 AAAAC3NzaC1lZDI1NTE5AAAAIGygkCljN6uKpdJbHTOQtn8ZnH+wKXDLAwrDFbLrE/65 nixos@nixos"
];
};
};