NixOS Config

This is my attempt at creating a replicatable build for testing that has hopefully everything you need to go from live CD to up and running in less than an hour - current testing is around 25 mins :)

Getting Started From Fresh Install

Open the base configuration

sudo nano /etc/nixos/configuration.nix

Add the following packages into the environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [] config section

• git
• vscode

Once these are added run sudo nixos-rebuild switch to install git and vscode! Next - clone the repo and CD into the nixConig directory

Then follow the steps below to apply the config

Applying The Config

cd into the root of the repo directory and run the copy-hw-config.sh script or following command:

sudo cat /etc/nixos/hardware-configuration.nix > ./hosts/default/hardware-configuration.nix

This will overwrite the existing hardware configuration (nix needs the file to be tracked by git so ... this is what you do)

Make the relevant changes in the modules/nixos/tester.nix for your user on lines 15 and 25

Edit the lines 23,45 and 101 in your configuration.nix ( in the current folder ) to reflect your hostname

Edit the flake.nix and change voidsent = nixpkgs.lib.nixosSystem to the name of the config (in this case we're using hostname) <hostname> = nixpkgs.lib.nixosSystem (line 58)

Once that's done, run the following to apply the configuration to the device where <hostname> is the name that you added to the flake.nix

Nessus

if the docker file doesnt pull use the following command 'sudo docker pull tenable/nessus:latest-ubuntu'

sudo nixos-rebuild switch --flake .#$hostname 

This will take the configuration from the current folder and apply it to the machine (if it's the first time running it, it will take a little time)