Script fixes:
- Rename HOSTNAME variable to TARGET (shadowed the bash builtin)
- Fix ipa-getkeytab -s to always use IPA_SERVER, not DC_HOST (diverge if
--dc is overridden to a jump host)
- Remove dead REALM variable
- Add EXIT trap to delete the plaintext keytab if the script aborts before
sops encryption completes; cleared after successful encrypt
- Distinguish real ipa host-add failures from "already exists" instead of
swallowing all errors with || true
- Warn explicitly when no platform age keys exist for the target (keytab
would be admin-only and the host couldn't decrypt it at boot)
- Fix sops fallback from pinned nixos-25.11 channel to nixpkgs (uses the
repo's own flake.lock)
- Expand "next steps" output to include networking.domain and nameservers
lines that host.nix requires for IPA membership
Module docs:
- Point to the script as the primary setup path; move manual steps to a
fallback section
- Note that certs/ipa-ca.crt is already committed (no need to re-fetch)
- Document the networking.domain and nameservers requirements in the header
- Add sync-host-keys.sh as explicit step 0
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
OpenSSH 10.0 tightened AuthorizedKeysCommand security by checking every
path component of the command binary for group/world-write permission.
/nix/store is 1775 (group-writable by nixbld), so sshd silently skips
the command for any binary in the Nix store — causing IPA pubkey auth to
silently fail with no diagnostic.
Fix: copy sss_ssh_authorizedkeys to /usr/local/bin via systemd tmpfiles
(C+ copies the file rather than symlinking, so the path at runtime is
root-owned/755 throughout), and point AuthorizedKeysCommand at the copy.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Imports docker/enable-service.nix and pins virtualisation.docker to
docker_29 via a nixpkgs overlay. Fixes indentation on `imports` block
and `programs.direnv.enable` line so nixpkgs-fmt passes.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- security.pam.services.sshd.makeHomeDir: IPA users have no pre-created
home directory on the host; without this, sshd opens a session to a
missing directory and resets the connection immediately after auth
- AuthorizedKeysCommand was already added in previous commit
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- modules/ipa/client.nix: add AuthorizedKeysCommand so sshd fetches SSH
public keys from IPA via sss_ssh_authorizedkeys, enabling pubkey login
without per-host authorized_keys files
- hosts/tailscale-router/host.nix: add IPA client module + networking.domain
so SSSD runs and wayne can authenticate on this host
- secrets/tailscale-router.keytab: sops-encrypted keytab for
tailscale-router.sweet.home (generated by create-nixos-ipa-host-account.sh)
- .sops.yaml: creation rule for secrets/tailscale-router.keytab
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
NixOS's dnsmasq module defaults resolveLocalQueries to true, which adds
127.0.0.1 to networking.nameservers and binds dnsmasq to listen-address=127.0.0.1.
This made the host route all its own DNS through dnsmasq, which had
no-resolv=true and no upstream for anything outside the tailnet domain —
so every non-tailscale DNS query from the host itself (including SSSD
resolving the IPA server FQDN after the IPA client module was added) failed.
Setting resolveLocalQueries=false limits dnsmasq to its intended role: a
forwarding proxy reachable on the LAN interface for IPA's conditional
forwarder. The host uses domainControllerIp directly (already set in
networking.nameservers in host.nix).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
ipa-getkeytab runs as root via sudo so the temp file is root-owned;
scp as wayne gets Permission denied. Pipe through `sudo cat` over SSH
instead, which reads as root but writes locally as the invoking user.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Single command to enroll a NixOS host in FreeIPA and produce a
sops-encrypted keytab at secrets/<hostname>.keytab:
- Adds the .sops.yaml creation rule automatically (with all registered
platform-variant age keys as recipients)
- SSHes to the domain controller to run ipa host-add + ipa-getkeytab
- Refreshes the admin Kerberos ticket via `ssh -t ... kinit admin` if
missing or expired, so no manual kinit step is needed
- SCPs the keytab and encrypts it in-place with sops (file must be at
secrets/<hostname>.keytab before encryption so the path-based creation
rule matches — the common failure point when doing this manually)
Also adds HOME_DOMAIN and IPA_SERVER to scripts/env.sh, matching
variables.nix's homeDomain/ipaServer (same manual-sync pattern as
NIX_CACHE_HOST/LAN_DOMAIN).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
sops matches creation rules against the input file path, so encrypting
/tmp/<host>.keytab directly with stdout redirect fails to find the rule.
Copy to secrets/ first, then use -i to encrypt in-place.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
ipa-getkeytab confirmed ipa.sweet.home doesn't respond to LDAP;
domain-controller.sweet.home is the actual IPA server FQDN.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adds modules/ipa/client.nix — a parameterized module that joins a NixOS host
to the sweet.home FreeIPA domain without ipa-client-install. It configures
security.ipa (SSSD, Kerberos, PAM, NSSwitch) and places a pre-provisioned host
keytab via sops-nix binary secret so enrollment is fully reproducible from the
flake.
- variables.nix: adds ipaServer (FQDN of the FreeIPA KDC; security.ipa.server
requires a hostname, not an IP, for Kerberos/TLS)
- certs/ipa-ca.crt: placeholder for the IPA CA public certificate (operator
replaces with: curl http://<ipa-server>/ipa/config/ca.crt)
- secrets/nix-cache.keytab: placeholder binary sops file (operator replaces
with the encrypted keytab after ipa host-add + ipa-getkeytab)
- .sops.yaml: adds creation rule for secrets/nix-cache.keytab (same recipients
as secrets/nix-cache.yaml)
- hosts/nix-cache/host.nix: imports the IPA client module; adds
networking.domain so the host's FQDN resolves correctly
Module header documents the three operator steps needed per host before deploy.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
zpool create -f was called if `zpool import -d /dev/disk/by-id` failed,
which could happen due to a race with systemd-udev-settle. The disk
would then be visible by the time zpool create ran, silently destroying
all data on an otherwise-intact pool.
Fix: locate the data disk first, retry the import directly against it
as a fallback, then check zdb -l for existing ZFS label metadata before
concluding the disk is blank. Remove -f so zpool create refuses rather
than overwrites if a pool is present.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01ULXzafSDwGhmFGnn3LtDSQ
IPA refuses to create a forward zone for ts.net because it's a real
public TLD with DNSimple nameservers. The forward zone must use the
tailnet-specific subdomain (vars.tailnetDomain, e.g. tail13f623.ts.net)
instead. Update dnsmasq server selector and comments to match.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01ULXzafSDwGhmFGnn3LtDSQ
FreeIPA (the new authoritative DNS) cannot reach 100.100.100.100
(Tailscale's internal MagicDNS resolver) directly because the DC is not
a Tailscale node. The tailscale-router IS a Tailscale node and can
reach 100.100.100.100 via tailscale0, so it now runs a dnsmasq
instance on its LAN interface that forwards all ts.net queries to
Tailscale's resolver.
After deploying this host, configure FreeIPA with:
kinit admin
ipa dnsforwardzone-add ts.net \
--forwarder=192.168.2.222 \
--forward-policy=only
This replaces Pi-hole's conditional forwarder for ts.net and restores
resolution of Tailscale MagicDNS names (e.g. raspberrypi.tail13f623.ts.net)
for all LAN hosts using FreeIPA as their DNS server.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01ULXzafSDwGhmFGnn3LtDSQ
Adds static IP configuration to every NixOS host in the flake that
has a fixed LAN address, and centralises all network primitives
(IPs, gateway, prefix length, interface names) in variables.nix so
there is one place to update if any of them change.
variables.nix additions:
- lanGateway / lanPrefixLength — LAN gateway and /24 prefix, replacing
every hardcoded 192.168.2.254 / 24 across host files
- lxcLanInterface / vmLanInterface / vmStorageInterface — NIC names for
LXC containers (eth0), Proxmox VMs (ens18), and the HA storage NIC
(ens19), used as attribute keys so changing the name is a one-line edit
- haStoragePrefixLength — /29 for the storage subnet, mirrors haStorageCidr
- Per-host IP variables: nixCacheIp (.224), tailscaleRouterIp (.222),
torRelayIp (.221), serverIp (.226), dockerIp (.225)
host.nix changes:
- tailscale-router, tor-relay, nix-cache, pxe-boot: useDHCP = false,
static address on eth0 (lxcLanInterface), struct-form defaultGateway
(required when using systemd-networkd which LXC containers use)
- server, docker: useDHCP = false, static address on ens18 (vmLanInterface),
struct-form defaultGateway (works for both scripted networking and networkd)
- ha-server-1, ha-server-2: replace hardcoded 192.168.2.254 / 24 / 29
with the new variables; no functional change for these hosts
modules/build-types/pxe-boot.nix:
- Domain-controller kickstart template: replace hardcoded 192.168.2.138
and 192.168.2.254 with vars.domainControllerIp / vars.lanGateway /
vars.lanPrefixLength / vars.homeDomain so the template stays correct
if the DC IP or domain is ever changed again
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01ULXzafSDwGhmFGnn3LtDSQ
vars.pxeServerIp was already set to the post-renumber target (.223) but the
pxe-boot CT is still at .247, so dnsmasq was advertising .223 as the TFTP server
and the VM couldn't reach it. Update to .247 so PXE boot works now; the comment
reminds us to flip it back to .223 when Stage 5 step 6 renumbers the CT.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
After the proxy DHCP handshake, the UEFI client queries the PXE boot
server on UDP port 4011 to get the actual boot filename. This port was
not open in the NixOS firewall, so all four PXE discovery attempts from
the test VM silently timed out. dnsmasq was bound to 0.0.0.0:4011 but
never received the packets.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
dnsmasq 2.93 does not send proxy DHCP offers from dhcp-boot alone in proxy
mode — pxe-service is required to trigger proxy offers for the initial boot.
Replace the dhcp-boot-based arch detection with pxe-service entries for
arch 0 (BIOS), 7 (EFI BC / OVMF), and 9 (EFI x86-64), then use dhcp-boot
only for the iPXE second-boot HTTP chain (tag:ipxe clients). Add log-dhcp
for post-deploy verification.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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