radicle-node’s user (radicle) couldn’t easily interact with the systemd service. This made maintenance and administration very difficult. Stuff like getting the node ID, listing repositories, connected seed repositories, and so was a chore.

With RAD_HOME now set to the defaul ~/.radicle, the public key and the config readable by rad, all the above operations (and more) are available. the configuration still cannot be modified, but given it’s NixOS, that is desirable as it should be declarative.

Hey! Thanks for submitting this patch. Could you please motivate why you want to crate resources/nixos? Also, resources/nixos/service.nix looks very very similar to the module definition in NixOS proper, i.e. in github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs. What’s the difference here exactly?

I will archive this for now, but feel free to come back to it if you think it is important.