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You should at least consider
nixos-rebuild --use-remote-sudo switch
over raw-doggingsudo
.What does remote sudo actually do I thought it was meant to be for doing remote builds over ssh
It’ll call sudo at the point it needs to at the end regardless of remote or not. There have been a couple of bugs in the past trying to run the whole process under sudo &
--use-remote-sudo
was always recommended as a fix.Have tried using it this way though the glaring issue for me is that I have to type the password at the end rather than start, meaning I'll start a rebuild, go for something else then it'll time out on the sudo password
That is a different story & a usability pain I can share 😅 …but assuming there wasn’t a GC, the build is cached, just needs another switch—& I am willing to take that as opposed to having the whole process running as root.
I suppose I could write a custom script that runs sudo echo or something so it's cached