Migrate host-key tooling from nix-auto-installer, bake keys into images
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Finishes the nix-auto-installer migration: scripts/prepare-host-key.sh
and the local host-keys/ directory (gitignored, private key material,
never committed — moved as plain files, not through git history)
weren't carried over in the initial migration.

Also implements automatic key staging, replacing the manual
scp-after-boot step:

- modules/installer/host-keys.nix reads host-keys/ via
  builtins.getEnv, which Nix silently returns as "" under normal
  (non---impure) evaluation — the module is a no-op by default, safe
  for CI, until explicitly opted into:

    NIXOS_HOST_KEYS_DIR=$(pwd)/host-keys nix build .#iso --impure

  When built this way every key present gets baked into the image at
  /etc/host-keys/, and auto-install.sh installs whichever one matches
  the flake target selected at install time — no manual per-host scp.

- This deliberately includes the PXE netboot variant, even though
  pxe-boot serves it unauthenticated over LAN HTTP: accepted
  explicitly as a reasonable trade-off for a network that sits behind
  LAN-only infrastructure, not the open internet. auto-install.sh
  still falls back to /root/host-keys (manual scp) if a key isn't
  baked in, so images built without --impure keep working exactly as
  before.

- docs/auto-installer.md replaces nix-auto-installer's README,
  updated for in-repo paths and the new build flow.

Verified: normal `nix eval` (no --impure) evaluates identically across
all 19 nixosConfigurations + 4 packages with zero host-keys/* entries
(CI-unaffected); with --impure + the env var set, all three installer
variants (installer/ISO, proxmox-lxc, pxe) correctly embed every key
in host-keys/.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01La55Nsss8jZ7ZuzUV9mfot
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@@ -53,8 +53,10 @@ nix eval --json .#nixosConfigurations --apply builtins.attrNames | jq -r '.[]'
| `modules/build-types/` | Build-type-specific config: what makes a system minimal/server/docker/gui/pxe-boot/nix-cache |
| `modules/common/` | Shared NixOS config, Home Manager, aliases imported by every host |
| `modules/nix-cache/` | Binary cache and remote builder client/server modules |
| `docs/` | Operational notes for cache, builders, lock updates, and boot services |
| `scripts/` | Codex setup and validation helpers |
| `modules/installer/` | Auto-installer environment (ISO/netboot/Proxmox LXC) — see `docs/auto-installer.md` |
| `host-keys/` | Gitignored, locally-generated SSH host keys for the auto-installer — see `docs/auto-installer.md` |
| `docs/` | Operational notes for cache, builders, lock updates, boot services, and the auto-installer |
| `scripts/` | Codex setup, validation, and host-key-prep helpers |
## Validation