A modern, delicious implementation of the Nix package manager, focused on correctness, usability, and growth — and committed to doing right by its community
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Currently, Nix passes `-a` when it runs commands on a remote machine via SSH, which disables agent forwarding. This causes issues when the `ForwardAgent` option is set in SSH config files, as the command line operation always overrides those. In particular, this causes issues if the command being run is `sudo` and the remote machine is configured with the equivalent of NixOS's `security.pam.enableSSHAgentAuth` option. Not allowing SSH agent forwarding can cause authentication to fail unexpectedly. This can currently be worked around by setting `NIX_SSHOPTS="-A"`, but we should defer to the options in the SSH config files to be least surprising for users. |
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config | ||
contrib | ||
doc/manual | ||
m4 | ||
maintainers | ||
misc | ||
mk | ||
perl | ||
scripts | ||
src | ||
tests | ||
.dir-locals.el | ||
.editorconfig | ||
.gitignore | ||
.version | ||
boehmgc-coroutine-sp-fallback.diff | ||
bootstrap.sh | ||
configure.ac | ||
COPYING | ||
default.nix | ||
docker.nix | ||
flake.lock | ||
flake.nix | ||
local.mk | ||
Makefile | ||
Makefile.config.in | ||
precompiled-headers.h | ||
README.md | ||
shell.nix |
Nix
Nix is a powerful package manager for Linux and other Unix systems that makes package management reliable and reproducible. Please refer to the Nix manual for more details.
Installation
On Linux and macOS the easiest way to install Nix is to run the following shell command (as a user other than root):
$ curl -L https://nixos.org/nix/install | sh
Information on additional installation methods is available on the Nix download page.
Building And Developing
See our Hacking guide in our manual for instruction on how to build nix from source with nix-build or how to get a development environment.
Additional Resources
- Nix manual
- Nix jobsets on hydra.nixos.org
- NixOS Discourse
- Matrix - #nix:nixos.org
- IRC - #nixos on libera.chat
License
Nix is released under the LGPL v2.1.