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refactor(flake): user registry, multi-user hosts, and portable home outputs (#49)
## Summary

Separates user identity (data) from the reusable Nix modules and lets a host declare any number of users, replacing the previous one-user-per-host structure. Also restructures the tree and exposes the home config for use off these hosts.

## Changes

- **User registry** (`users/registry.nix`): per-user identity (name, email, groups, authorized + signing keys) as the single source of truth; no user data hardcoded in modules.
- **Multi-user `mkHost`**: a host declares a `users` set keyed by username; per-user identity is injected into each home config via the `identity` module arg.
- **Restructured layout**: `users/`, `home/`, `modules/`, `hosts/`, `lib/` replace the former `lyrathorpe/` and `system/` trees.
- **Portable outputs**: standalone `homeConfigurations."<user>@<system>"` (the portable subset — shell, git, editor, claude) plus an exported `homeModules` for use on machines not managed by this flake, or as an input to other flakes.
- Docs (`README.md`, `home/README.md`) and `.gitignore` updated for the new paths.

## Fixes

- Closes #46 — shared user module authorized one user's SSH key for every account.
- Closes #47 — git committer identity hardcoded as defaults instead of per-user.
- Closes #48 — EDaaS systemd linger hardcoded to a literal username.

## Verification

- `nix flake check` passes: treefmt, deadnix, statix, pre-commit, and evaluation of all NixOS hosts + Darwin + homeConfigurations.
- Derivation-path comparison vs `main`: `lyrathorpe-mbp` and `emmathorpe-edaas` are byte-identical; `lyrathorpe-t400`, `lyrathorpe-macpro31` and `lyrathorpe-rpi5` differ only by de-duplicating a repeated `authorized_keys` entry (confirmed with nix-diff — no other change).
- Standalone `homeConfigurations."lyrathorpe@x86_64-linux".activationPackage` builds.

## Notes

- `emmathorpe` has no personal authorized key yet (it previously inherited Lyra's key via the bug in #46); the registry entry is intentionally empty — add a real key if SSH login as `emmathorpe` is wanted (moot on the WSL host).
- A two-repo (public dotfiles / private systems) split is deferred by design; this internal restructure is the prerequisite for it.

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Co-authored-by: Emma Thorpe <emma.thorpe@citrix.com>
Reviewed-on: #49
2026-06-29 13:06:23 +01:00

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git-commit-signing Commits sign in-sandbox via ssh-agent — needs `allowAllUnixSockets: true` in settings, plus pubkey inlined in user.signingkey.
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Lyra's git is configured to SSH-sign commits (commit.gpgsign=true, gpg.format=ssh). The sandbox masks ~/.ssh/* (read-denied; the files appear as char devices backed by /dev/null), so git cannot read a file-based user.signingkey and ssh-keygen cannot read the private key directly. Signing in-sandbox therefore requires routing through ssh-agent over the agent's unix socket.

Working setup (as of 2026-06-02):

  1. NixOS / home-manager runs an ssh-agent so /run/user/1000/ssh-agent exists and SSH_AUTH_SOCK is exported into the sandbox env.
  2. ~/.claude/settings.json has sandbox.network.allowAllUnixSockets: true to let the sandbox connect() to that socket. On Linux/WSL2 this is the ONLY available switch — the per-path sandbox.network.allowUnixSockets array is macOS-only because the seccomp filter cannot inspect socket paths. Tradeoff: every unix socket on the host (including /var/run/docker.sock if present, DBus, etc.) becomes reachable from sandboxed commands.
  3. user.signingkey set to the inlined pubkey: git config --global user.signingkey "key::$(cat ~/.ssh/id_ed25519.pub)". Must run with DOUBLE quotes outside the sandbox so $(...) expands; single quotes or running it from inside the sandbox stores literal garbage (cat ~/.ssh/id_ed25519.pub reads /dev/null in-sandbox).

Why: removes the per-commit ! git commit ... friction; private key stays in the agent, never enters the sandbox.

How to apply: Commit normally with git commit. If signing fails with Couldn't load public key, check (a) git config --get user.signingkey starts with key::ssh-ed25519 AAAA... (not literal $(...)), (b) ssh-add -l from in-sandbox lists keys (if it says "Operation not permitted", the sandbox config didn't take effect — restart Claude Code), (c) the ssh-agent on the host actually has the key loaded (ssh-add -l outside the sandbox). Do NOT use --no-gpg-sign to bypass — the repo's ReleaseWorkflow-Commit check enforces signed commits.

Related: git-network-ops, git-conventions.