{ config, lib, pkgs, ... }: with lib; let cfg = config.boot.initrd.network.ssh; in { options.boot.initrd.network.ssh = { enable = mkOption { type = types.bool; default = false; description = '' Start SSH service during initrd boot. It can be used to debug failing boot on a remote server, enter pasphrase for an encrypted partition etc. Service is killed when stage-1 boot is finished. The sshd configuration is largely inherited from . ''; }; port = mkOption { type = types.int; default = 22; description = '' Port on which SSH initrd service should listen. ''; }; shell = mkOption { type = types.str; default = "/bin/ash"; description = '' Login shell of the remote user. Can be used to limit actions user can do. ''; }; hostKeys = mkOption { type = types.listOf (types.either types.str types.path); default = []; example = [ "/etc/secrets/initrd/ssh_host_rsa_key" "/etc/secrets/initrd/ssh_host_ed25519_key" ]; description = '' Specify SSH host keys to import into the initrd. To generate keys, use ssh-keygen1: # ssh-keygen -t rsa -N "" -f /etc/secrets/initrd/ssh_host_rsa_key # ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -N "" -f /etc/secrets/initrd/ssh_host_ed25519_key Unless your bootloader supports initrd secrets, these keys are stored insecurely in the global Nix store. Do NOT use your regular SSH host private keys for this purpose or you'll expose them to regular users! Additionally, even if your initrd supports secrets, if you're using initrd SSH to unlock an encrypted disk then using your regular host keys exposes the private keys on your unencrypted boot partition. ''; }; authorizedKeys = mkOption { type = types.listOf types.str; default = config.users.users.root.openssh.authorizedKeys.keys; defaultText = literalExpression "config.users.users.root.openssh.authorizedKeys.keys"; description = '' Authorized keys for the root user on initrd. ''; }; extraConfig = mkOption { type = types.lines; default = ""; description = "Verbatim contents of sshd_config."; }; }; imports = map (opt: mkRemovedOptionModule ([ "boot" "initrd" "network" "ssh" ] ++ [ opt ]) '' The initrd SSH functionality now uses OpenSSH rather than Dropbear. If you want to keep your existing initrd SSH host keys, convert them with $ dropbearconvert dropbear openssh dropbear_host_$type_key ssh_host_$type_key and then set options.boot.initrd.network.ssh.hostKeys. '') [ "hostRSAKey" "hostDSSKey" "hostECDSAKey" ]; config = let # Nix complains if you include a store hash in initrd path names, so # as an awful hack we drop the first character of the hash. initrdKeyPath = path: if isString path then path else let name = builtins.baseNameOf path; in builtins.unsafeDiscardStringContext ("/etc/ssh/" + substring 1 (stringLength name) name); sshdCfg = config.services.openssh; sshdConfig = '' Port ${toString cfg.port} PasswordAuthentication no ChallengeResponseAuthentication no ${flip concatMapStrings cfg.hostKeys (path: '' HostKey ${initrdKeyPath path} '')} KexAlgorithms ${concatStringsSep "," sshdCfg.kexAlgorithms} Ciphers ${concatStringsSep "," sshdCfg.ciphers} MACs ${concatStringsSep "," sshdCfg.macs} LogLevel ${sshdCfg.logLevel} ${if sshdCfg.useDns then '' UseDNS yes '' else '' UseDNS no ''} ${cfg.extraConfig} ''; in mkIf (config.boot.initrd.network.enable && cfg.enable) { assertions = [ { assertion = cfg.authorizedKeys != []; message = "You should specify at least one authorized key for initrd SSH"; } { assertion = cfg.hostKeys != []; message = '' You must now pre-generate the host keys for initrd SSH. See the boot.initrd.network.ssh.hostKeys documentation for instructions. ''; } ]; boot.initrd.extraUtilsCommands = '' copy_bin_and_libs ${pkgs.openssh}/bin/sshd cp -pv ${pkgs.glibc.out}/lib/libnss_files.so.* $out/lib ''; boot.initrd.extraUtilsCommandsTest = '' # sshd requires a host key to check config, so we pass in the test's tmpkey="$(mktemp initrd-ssh-testkey.XXXXXXXXXX)" cp "${../../../tests/initrd-network-ssh/ssh_host_ed25519_key}" "$tmpkey" # keys from Nix store are world-readable, which sshd doesn't like chmod 600 "$tmpkey" echo -n ${escapeShellArg sshdConfig} | $out/bin/sshd -t -f /dev/stdin \ -h "$tmpkey" rm "$tmpkey" ''; boot.initrd.network.postCommands = '' echo '${cfg.shell}' > /etc/shells echo 'root:x:0:0:root:/root:${cfg.shell}' > /etc/passwd echo 'sshd:x:1:1:sshd:/var/empty:/bin/nologin' >> /etc/passwd echo 'passwd: files' > /etc/nsswitch.conf mkdir -p /var/log /var/empty touch /var/log/lastlog mkdir -p /etc/ssh echo -n ${escapeShellArg sshdConfig} > /etc/ssh/sshd_config echo "export PATH=$PATH" >> /etc/profile echo "export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH" >> /etc/profile mkdir -p /root/.ssh ${concatStrings (map (key: '' echo ${escapeShellArg key} >> /root/.ssh/authorized_keys '') cfg.authorizedKeys)} ${flip concatMapStrings cfg.hostKeys (path: '' # keys from Nix store are world-readable, which sshd doesn't like chmod 0600 "${initrdKeyPath path}" '')} /bin/sshd -e ''; boot.initrd.postMountCommands = '' # Stop sshd cleanly before stage 2. # # If you want to keep it around to debug post-mount SSH issues, # run `touch /.keep_sshd` (either from an SSH session or in # another initrd hook like preDeviceCommands). if ! [ -e /.keep_sshd ]; then pkill -x sshd fi ''; boot.initrd.secrets = listToAttrs (map (path: nameValuePair (initrdKeyPath path) path) cfg.hostKeys); }; }