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@@ -60,14 +60,16 @@ The basic `configuration.nix` file in the current snapshots looks just like this This basic setup allows it to boot, starts the OpenSSH server agent and allows the listed `openssh.authorizedKeys.keys` to login. -I've also changed the nix-channel to the `nixos-unstable` imperatively before -creating the image snapshot: +I've also changed the ownership of `/etc/nixos/configuration.nix` to allow my +user to write to it by piping through SSH without trying some +[non-working solutions like before][0]: ```shell -sudo nix-channel --remove nixos -sudo nix-channel --add https://nixos.org/channels/nixos-unstable nixos +sudo chown andreh /etc/nixos/configuration.nix ``` -So the first run of `./nixos-update.sh` will already get the latest channel from -unstable, which makes this image not tied to the particular original 19.09 NixOS -distribution. +With that `./nixos-update.sh` can write to the NixOS configuration file without +running into issues with `sudo` password permissions through the SSH pipe while +writing to stdin. + +[0]: https://git.sr.ht/~euandreh/vps/tree/a7983c859f3d8890e35c587176f497b73a7a7dc7/nixos-switch.sh#L7 |