eduroam-flake
Install Eduroam on NixOS.
Disclaimer
This is technically completely overkill and unnecessary. You don't need to create a package to execute a python script when using Nix.
nix-shell -p "python3.withPackages (ps: with ps; [ dbus-python ])" --run python3 <your-eduroam.py>Would technically achieve the same result.
Next month I'm giving a talk about Nix and since we need to login into Eduroam during a live demo, I thought it would be a great and simple example to talk about flakes.
Also: it took me some time to figure out, you need to use dbus-python instead of pydbus. This repository might save people time in case they find it by googling NixOS Eduroam. This repository might be helpful for documentation purposes.
Usage
This script assumes you are using NetworkManager.
Find your University's entityID:
nix run .#list-eduroam-entityIDsCreate a new entry under inputs as well as in the packagessection of flake.nix.
Then run the nix run command.
Nice to know:
To build a Nix package, just run nix build .#install-eduroam-bonn.
The result will be in result. You can run it with ./result/bin/install-eduroam-bonn.
Reviewing this file manually tells us a lot about how Nix works!
Supported Universities:
| University | entityID | command |
|---|---|---|
| Universität Bonn | 5138 | nix run .#install-eduroam-university-bonn |
| Universität Köln | 5133 | nix run .#install-eduroam-university-koeln |