Fix nix-cache remote-builder trust: stale host key + wrong sshKey path
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variables.nix's nixCacheHostKey no longer matched nix-cache's actual SSH
host key (confirmed via ssh-keyscan against the live container), so every
declaratively-configured client's programs.ssh.knownHosts trusted the
wrong key -- distributed builds would fail host-key verification. Also,
modules/nix-cache/remote-builder-client.nix hardcoded sshKey to
/root/.ssh/nixremote, but the `server` host only has its own default
/root/.ssh/id_ed25519 installed (confirmed live via qm guest-agent) --
that file was never even present, so the build machine config pointed at
nothing. Standardize on each client's own default identity, matching the
per-host-key pattern vars.remoteBuilderAuthorizedKeys already uses instead
of a shared/differently-named keypair, and add
scripts/secrets/sync-nix-cache-host-key.sh (wired into
codex-maintenance.sh's --check) so the host-key drift doesn't silently
recur next time nix-cache is rebuilt or recreated.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01V7yVH71vGrDVzovh9UaMu8
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2026-07-20 17:21:12 +00:00
co-authored by Claude Sonnet 5
parent d340aca403
commit fd773b65da
7 changed files with 179 additions and 17 deletions
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@@ -1,10 +1,14 @@
{ pkgs, vars, ... }:
{
# Install the remote builder key on each client host (do not commit private keys):
# 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
# Authenticate as nixremote using the client host's own default root SSH
# identity (/root/.ssh/id_ed25519) rather than a separately-named key --
# matches vars.remoteBuilderAuthorizedKeys, which already authorizes
# each host's own default key (one entry per host, not a shared
# dedicated keypair). If this host doesn't have one yet:
# sudo -u root ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -N '' -f /root/.ssh/id_ed25519
# # then add its .pub to vars.remoteBuilderAuthorizedKeys and rebuild nix-cache
# sudo ssh -i /root/.ssh/id_ed25519 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.
@@ -20,7 +24,7 @@
{
hostName = vars.nixCacheHost;
sshUser = vars.remoteBuilderUser;
sshKey = "/root/.ssh/${vars.remoteBuilderUser}";
sshKey = "/root/.ssh/id_ed25519";
inherit (pkgs.stdenv.hostPlatform) system;
maxJobs = 4;
speedFactor = 2;