modules/ipa/client.nix is now a self-contained NixOS module (no longer a
parameterized function): it checks builtins.pathExists for
secrets/<hostname>.keytab at eval time and enables itself automatically if
found, making it a no-op for hosts without a keytab.
modules/common/configuration.nix imports it so every host in the flake is
a candidate for IPA enrollment — no per-host wiring needed. Adding a
keytab (via scripts/ipa/create-nixos-ipa-host-account.sh) is now the
only step required to enroll a host.
The module also sets networking.domain and networking.nameservers via
mkDefault when active, so new hosts don't need those set explicitly.
Also:
- Remove explicit IPA imports from hosts/nix-cache and hosts/tailscale-router
- Add secrets/pxe-boot.keytab + creation rule; remove incorrect
secrets/nixos.sweet.home.keytab and its creation rule
- Add .sops.yaml creation rules for all remaining host keytabs
(server, docker, tor-relay, nix-minimal, nixos) so the creation script
can target them without manual .sops.yaml edits
- Fix duplicate tailscale-router.keytab rule and corrupted gui.yaml comment
block in .sops.yaml
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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
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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.
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- 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
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- 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
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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.
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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>
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