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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@@ -15,6 +15,16 @@
# this repo -- update both if nix-cache is ever rebuilt with a new host
# key or the cache signing key is rotated (see docs/nix-cache.md).
#
# REMOTE_BUILDER_KEY defaults to this machine's own default root SSH
# identity (matches modules/nix-cache/remote-builder-client.nix's
# convention for real NixOS clients: authenticate as nixremote with the
# host's own default key, added individually to
# vars.remoteBuilderAuthorizedKeys, rather than a separately-named or
# shared keypair) -- generate one with
# `ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -N '' -f /root/.ssh/id_ed25519` if this machine
# doesn't have one yet, then add its .pub to vars.remoteBuilderAuthorizedKeys
# and rebuild nix-cache.
#
# Usage:
# sudo ./configure-nix-cache-client.sh [--dry-run] [--no-remote-builder] [--no-restart]
#
@@ -24,9 +34,9 @@
set -euo pipefail
: "${NIX_CACHE_HOST:=nix-cache}"
: "${NIX_CACHE_HOST_KEY:=ssh-ed25519 AAAAC3NzaC1lZDI1NTE5AAAAIHrMKZlIGUd3pH9G3AqbsruqUGjxIXMAZw52u9MwiBCn lxc-nix-cache}"
: "${NIX_CACHE_HOST_KEY:=ssh-ed25519 AAAAC3NzaC1lZDI1NTE5AAAAIPeWgMsdaiz4axT/deFc1+0B5bN+GX/NOeW9bbQ0c/IT lxc-nix-cache}"
: "${REMOTE_BUILDER_USER:=nixremote}"
: "${REMOTE_BUILDER_KEY:=/root/.ssh/nixremote}"
: "${REMOTE_BUILDER_KEY:=/root/.ssh/id_ed25519}"
CACHE_PUB_KEY="cache.local-1:usoWYanY3Kpq2+kDIS2nhWoLZiRxanmdysdzqCFBHW4="
FALLBACK_URL="https://cache.nixos.org/"