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beatzaplentyandClaude Sonnet 5 f55e33b807
Check NixOS configurations / eval-hosts (push) Failing after 11m18s
Migrate host-key tooling from nix-auto-installer, bake keys into images
Finishes the nix-auto-installer migration: scripts/prepare-host-key.sh
and the local host-keys/ directory (gitignored, private key material,
never committed — moved as plain files, not through git history)
weren't carried over in the initial migration.

Also implements automatic key staging, replacing the manual
scp-after-boot step:

- modules/installer/host-keys.nix reads host-keys/ via
  builtins.getEnv, which Nix silently returns as "" under normal
  (non---impure) evaluation — the module is a no-op by default, safe
  for CI, until explicitly opted into:

    NIXOS_HOST_KEYS_DIR=$(pwd)/host-keys nix build .#iso --impure

  When built this way every key present gets baked into the image at
  /etc/host-keys/, and auto-install.sh installs whichever one matches
  the flake target selected at install time — no manual per-host scp.

- This deliberately includes the PXE netboot variant, even though
  pxe-boot serves it unauthenticated over LAN HTTP: accepted
  explicitly as a reasonable trade-off for a network that sits behind
  LAN-only infrastructure, not the open internet. auto-install.sh
  still falls back to /root/host-keys (manual scp) if a key isn't
  baked in, so images built without --impure keep working exactly as
  before.

- docs/auto-installer.md replaces nix-auto-installer's README,
  updated for in-repo paths and the new build flow.

Verified: normal `nix eval` (no --impure) evaluates identically across
all 19 nixosConfigurations + 4 packages with zero host-keys/* entries
(CI-unaffected); with --impure + the env var set, all three installer
variants (installer/ISO, proxmox-lxc, pxe) correctly embed every key
in host-keys/.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01La55Nsss8jZ7ZuzUV9mfot
2026-07-20 04:41:34 +10:00

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{ pkgs, lib, vars, ... }:
{
imports = [
./host-keys.nix
];
networking.useDHCP = lib.mkDefault true;
time.timeZone = vars.timeZone;
# Without this, the installer only ever sees cache.nixos.org, which
# doesn't carry sops-install-secrets (it's built straight from the
# sops-nix flake's own Go source, not part of nixpkgs) — every install
# would otherwise compile it from scratch, which is what ran an 8GB LXC
# container's disk out of space. Push a built copy to nix-cache once
# (from a machine with real disk headroom) and every future install,
# of any type, fetches instead of rebuilding.
nix.settings = {
substituters = [
"http://nix-cache"
"https://cache.nixos.org/"
];
trusted-public-keys = [
"cache.local-1:usoWYanY3Kpq2+kDIS2nhWoLZiRxanmdysdzqCFBHW4="
"cache.nixos.org-1:6NCHdD59X431o0gWypbMrAURkbJ16ZPMQFGspcDShjY="
];
};
environment = {
systemPackages = with pkgs; [
git
curl
jq
parted
e2fsprogs
btrfs-progs
util-linux
disko
];
# Write auto-install script to /root
etc."auto-install.sh" = {
text = ''
#!/run/current-system/sw/bin/bash
set -eux
set -euo pipefail
export FLAKE_BASE_URL="git+https://${vars.lanDomain}/beatzaplenty/nixos.git"
echo "Fetching available NixOS hosts from flake..."
mapfile -t options < <(
nix eval --json --no-use-registries --no-accept-flake-config --extra-experimental-features "flakes nix-command" \
"''${FLAKE_BASE_URL}#nixosConfigurations" \
--apply builtins.attrNames \
| jq -r '.[]'
)
if [[ ''${#options[@]} -eq 0 ]]; then
echo "ERROR: No NixOS hosts found in ''${FLAKE_BASE_URL}#nixosConfigurations" >&2
exit 1
fi
echo "Choose the flake profile to install:"
select choice in "''${options[@]}"; do
if [[ -n "$choice" ]]; then
echo "You selected: $choice"
break
else
echo "Invalid selection. Try again."
fi
done
echo "Starting install with flake: ''${FLAKE_BASE_URL}#''${choice}"
# Optional: confirm before proceeding
read -rp "Proceed with installation? (y/N): " confirm
if [[ ! "$confirm" =~ ^[Yy]$ ]]; then
echo "Aborted."
exit 1
fi
# A nix-cache host is *the* substituter/remote-builder for every other
# host once installed (its own config explicitly excludes itself from
# using either — see buildType != "nix-cache" in the nixos flake.nix).
# Installing one shouldn't depend on a nix-cache substituter either,
# for the same reason — plus in practice "nix-cache" only resolves over
# Tailscale, which a fresh installer environment was never connected to
# anyway, so it's dead weight even for non-nix-cache installs until
# that's sorted out. Override it away here specifically for nix-cache
# targets to keep install-time behaviour consistent with run-time.
nix_extra_opts=()
if [[ "''${choice}" == *-nix-cache ]]; then
echo "Installing a nix-cache host — skipping the nix-cache substituter."
nix_extra_opts+=(--option substituters "https://cache.nixos.org/")
fi
if nix eval --refresh --json --extra-experimental-features "flakes nix-command" "''${nix_extra_opts[@]}" "''${FLAKE_BASE_URL}#nixosConfigurations.''${choice}.config.disko.devices.disk.main.device" >/dev/null 2>&1; then
disko --mode destroy,format,mount \
--flake "''${FLAKE_BASE_URL}#''${choice}" "''${nix_extra_opts[@]}" --yes
else
# No raw disk to partition — true for every LXC container, which has
# no block device visible from inside it, only its already-mounted
# root filesystem. nixos-install defaults to installing into /mnt; if
# nothing points /mnt at the real root, the new system gets built and
# written to a disconnected empty directory, never actually becomes
# bootable, and the container silently keeps running this installer
# environment forever. Bind-mount / onto /mnt so the install actually
# lands on the filesystem this container boots from.
echo "Selected host has no Disko configuration — installing in place via bind mount."
mount --bind / /mnt
fi
# sops-nix derives this host's decryption key from its own SSH host key
# at *activation* time, which runs before systemd would otherwise
# generate one on first boot. Without pre-seeding it here, secrets
# (including the login password) fail to decrypt on first boot.
# Generate the key with scripts/prepare-host-key.sh first.
#
# Two places a key can come from, checked in order:
# /etc/host-keys — baked into this image at build time (see
# modules/installer/host-keys.nix; only present
# if built with NIXOS_HOST_KEYS_DIR set)
# /root/host-keys — scp'd in manually after boot (older fallback,
# still supported for images built without keys)
mkdir -p /root/host-keys
if [[ -f "/etc/host-keys/''${choice}_ssh_host_ed25519_key" ]]; then
echo "Found baked-in SSH host key for ''${choice}, installing to target..."
install -D -m 0600 "/etc/host-keys/''${choice}_ssh_host_ed25519_key" /mnt/etc/ssh/ssh_host_ed25519_key
install -D -m 0644 "/etc/host-keys/''${choice}_ssh_host_ed25519_key.pub" /mnt/etc/ssh/ssh_host_ed25519_key.pub
elif [[ -f "/root/host-keys/''${choice}_ssh_host_ed25519_key" ]]; then
echo "Found pre-seeded SSH host key for ''${choice}, installing to target..."
install -D -m 0600 "/root/host-keys/''${choice}_ssh_host_ed25519_key" /mnt/etc/ssh/ssh_host_ed25519_key
install -D -m 0644 "/root/host-keys/''${choice}_ssh_host_ed25519_key.pub" /mnt/etc/ssh/ssh_host_ed25519_key.pub
else
echo "WARNING: no SSH host key found for ''${choice} (checked /etc/host-keys and /root/host-keys)"
echo "sops-nix secrets (including the login password) will NOT decrypt on first boot."
echo "Run scripts/prepare-host-key.sh for host ''${choice} on your admin workstation first,"
echo "then either rebuild this image with NIXOS_HOST_KEYS_DIR set, or scp the result to"
echo "/root/host-keys/ on this machine."
read -rp "Continue without a pre-seeded key anyway? (y/N): " skip_key
if [[ ! "$skip_key" =~ ^[Yy]$ ]]; then
echo "Aborted."
exit 1
fi
fi
mkdir -p /mnt/install-tmp
export TMPDIR=/mnt/install-tmp
nixos-install \
--flake "''${FLAKE_BASE_URL}#''${choice}" \
"''${nix_extra_opts[@]}" \
--no-root-password
rm -rf /mnt/install-tmp
# Redundant copy of the host's private key — the real one is now at
# /etc/ssh/ssh_host_ed25519_key. Nothing NixOS-managed ever cleans this
# up on its own since it was written imperatively, not declaratively.
rm -rf /root/host-keys
sleep 10
reboot
'';
mode = "0755";
};
};
programs.git.enable = true;
# Run the installer on first login. Previously this copied an /etc file
# into the nixos user's ~/.bash_profile via an activation script that
# got dropped in a refactor (and only ever worked for that one user
# anyway) — loginShellInit is NixOS's native hook for this, applies to
# any user's login shell (root included), and needs no home-directory
# file-copying/chown.
programs.bash.loginShellInit = ''
if [ -n "$PS1" ] && [ ! -e "$HOME/.auto_install_ran" ]; then
sudo /etc/auto-install.sh
touch "$HOME/.auto_install_ran"
fi
'';
services.openssh.enable = true;
services.openssh.settings = {
PermitRootLogin = "yes";
PasswordAuthentication = true;
};
users.users.root = {
hashedPassword =
"$6$Kwv9KAyvcurAViQF$H4.u3feqGE7lVoNgkFXhE3n2Pmo//9JYDTCz8ifrVHBxPjwa1xMby7tEZ8Bpt5MXs9Rkx6/YbZWxs5CpH0s/70";
};
users.users.${vars.primaryUser} = {
isNormalUser = true;
extraGroups = [
"wheel"
];
shell = pkgs.bashInteractive;
hashedPassword =
"$6$Kwv9KAyvcurAViQF$H4.u3feqGE7lVoNgkFXhE3n2Pmo//9JYDTCz8ifrVHBxPjwa1xMby7tEZ8Bpt5MXs9Rkx6/YbZWxs5CpH0s/70";
openssh.authorizedKeys.keys = [
vars.adminSshKey
];
};
system.stateVersion = "26.05";
}