New script: scripts/secrets/push-host-keys.sh
- Pushes newly-generated SSH host keys from host-keys/ to already-running
NixOS hosts after sync-host-keys.sh --regenerate-all-keys.
- Before pushing any key, checks that .sops.yaml and secrets/*.yaml are
committed and pushed to the remote Gitea flake (hosts rebuild from there,
so recipient changes must land first); offers to auto-commit/push if not.
- Reads /etc/flake-target from each host to confirm which key to install,
handling the case where multiple flake targets share a hostname.
- Deduplicates by hostname in --all mode; skips hand-registered targets
that have no host-keys/ entry.
- --dry-run, --skip-git-check, SSH_USER override (default: nixos).
sync-host-keys.sh --regenerate-all-keys:
- Updated pre-confirmation warning to distinguish already-running hosts
(need push-host-keys.sh) from not-yet-deployed hosts (need installer
image rebuild).
- Added next-steps block after regeneration completes pointing to
push-host-keys.sh --all.
recover-hosts.sh:
- Header and SSH host key mismatch warn now cross-reference
push-host-keys.sh as the proactive (pre-drift) alternative.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
NixOS's etc activation removes files that were in a previous generation's
environment.etc but absent from the current one -- even real copies, not
only symlinks. LXC tarballs bake the host key into environment.etc (via
NIXOS_HOST_KEYS_DIR), but every subsequent nixos-rebuild switch lacks that
env var, so the key is removed as "obsolete". sops-nix derives its age
decryption key from /etc/ssh/ssh_host_ed25519_key, so deletion cascades
into "Error getting data key: 0 successful groups required, got 0" for
every sops secret on the host.
Fix: two activation scripts bracket the etc step.
preserveSshHostKey (no deps, runs before etc): copies the live key to
/run (tmpfs) before etc can delete it.
restoreSshHostKey (deps=[etc], runs after etc): reinstalls via `install`
if etc removed the key. The resulting file is not tracked in either
generation's environment.etc, so subsequent rebuilds leave it alone.
scripts/recover-hosts.sh: restore both private and public key files (not
just the private key), use install(1) for atomic mode setting, and add a
post-rebuild sops-nix verification step to confirm success.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014zT1L6hmsq6i1evAEH7dmi