* Join the tailnet from a cidata tailscale_authkey
A tailscale_authkey file on the autoinstall drive gets the installed
machine onto the tailnet on its own: the tailscale package is bundled in
the offline mirror and installed only when the key is present, the key is
staged root-only at /etc/tailscale/authkey, and a oneshot first-boot unit
runs tailscale up once the network is really there. On success the key is
deleted and the unit disables itself; on failure both survive to retry on
the next boot, so an offline install joins whenever it first gets
connectivity. ufw allows traffic in on tailscale0 via the same
write-the-rule-then-ignore-the-chroot-exit-code dance as the SSH phase.
Bundling rather than fetching at first boot is deliberate: pacman -Sy
tailscale on a fresh machine is a partial upgrade, and pacman -Syu means
an unattended full system upgrade racing the user's first login. The
offline mirror is a coherent snapshot; installing from it keeps the
target consistent and the install offline-capable. See plans/tailscale.md.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Xc74h4WSYpuYPGuYbFAR1q
* Do not hold boot hostage for the tailnet join
Review caught that the join unit was Type=oneshot wanted by
multi-user.target: target units implicitly gain After= for their Wants=,
so an offline machine's boot -- SDDM included -- stalled for the full
10-minute timeout, and once timed out the join never retried within that
boot. Type=simple counts as started the moment it forks, so boot proceeds
while the join retries in the background for as long as the boot lasts.
Cleanup moves inside the script, sequenced after tailscale up succeeds,
which preserves the retry-across-boots behavior: key and unit survive a
boot with no connectivity, and the key never outlives a successful join.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Xc74h4WSYpuYPGuYbFAR1q
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The JSON wrapper was the one piece of autoinstall input that wasn't an
existing format: the other files are the configurator's own output, and
the keys end up in sshd's authorized_keys anyway. So take that file
directly -- one key per line, comments and key options work as they do
everywhere else -- and drop the parsing in between. The only thing JSON
bought was parse-error detection, and the phase still fails loudly when
the file carries no usable keys.
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The loader now settles udev before probing, so a fast boot cannot miss
the drive and silently drop a headless install into the wizard. All the
files come over in a single cp, and a failed copy removes anything it
already copied and falls back to the wizard: the wizard cleans up only
what it writes itself, so a half-copied ssh.json would otherwise leak
into the interactive install that follows. The command takes an optional
path prefix so tests can run it against a sandbox instead of the live
system.
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