Fix nix-cache remote-builder trust: stale host key + wrong sshKey path
Check NixOS configurations / eval-hosts (pull_request) Failing after 11m12s

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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@@ -41,6 +41,20 @@ echo
echo "Running statix lint..."
nix run "${NIX_EVAL_FLAGS[@]}" github:NixOS/nixpkgs/nixos-25.11#statix -- check .
echo
echo "Checking nix-cache host key for drift..."
if bash "${script_dir}/secrets/sync-nix-cache-host-key.sh" --check; then
:
else
drift_status=$?
if [[ "$drift_status" -eq 2 ]]; then
echo "nix-cache unreachable from here -- skipping host-key drift check."
else
echo "WARNING: nix-cache's host key has drifted from variables.nix (see above)." >&2
echo " Run 'bash scripts/secrets/sync-nix-cache-host-key.sh' to fix." >&2
fi
fi
echo
echo "Evaluating host toplevel derivations..."
for host in $hosts; do