generate-secrets: use pwgen
Password length and alphabet is unchanged, but the restriction to include at least one numeric and one capital char has been removed. This restriction is not needed by client applications, adds code complexity, and even (insignificantly) reduces entropy. Reason for switching to pwgen: apg uses /dev/random instead of /dev/urandom which brings no security benefits but can stall the generate-secrets script on low-entropy devices due to blocking. Since `security.rngd` has been disabled in NixOS 20.09, blocking in generate-secrets can also appear on regular NixOS desktop systems.
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* **A:** Check your clightning logs with `journalctl -eu clightning`. Do you see something like `bitcoin-cli getblock ... false` failed? Are you using pruned mode? That means that clightning hasn't seen all the blocks it needs to and it can't get that block because your node is pruned. If you're just setting up a new node you can `systemctl stop clightning` and wipe your `/var/lib/clightning` directory. Otherwise you need to reindex the Bitcoin node.
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* **Q:** My disk space is getting low due to nix.
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* **A:** run `nix-collect-garbage -d`
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* **Q:** `nix-shell` takes too long and doesn't finish generating `/secrets`
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* **A:** This might be the result of low system entropy. Check your entropy with `cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail`. If necessary, take steps to increase entropy like performing some tasks on the system or acquiring a hardware true random number generator.
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in
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writers.writeBash "generate-secrets" ''
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export PATH=${lib.makeBinPath [ coreutils apg openssl gnugrep rpcauth ]}
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export PATH=${lib.makeBinPath [ coreutils pwgen openssl gnugrep rpcauth ]}
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. ${./generate-secrets.sh} ${./openssl.cnf}
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''
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opensslConf=${1:-openssl.cnf}
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makePasswordSecret() {
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[[ -e $1 ]] || apg -m 20 -x 20 -M Ncl -n 1 > "$1"
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# Passwords have alphabet {a-z, A-Z, 0-9} and ~119 bits of entropy
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[[ -e $1 ]] || pwgen -s 20 1 > "$1"
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}
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makeHMAC() {
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user=$1
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