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Notes about caching Nix builds

You can use Cachix (I haven't tried it yet but people are happy with it), or spend time like I do crawling through similar notes.

I have to put back my notes in order, because of this tweets: https://twitter.com/noteed/status/1285875859468029958

It turns out I did use a cache on Digital Ocean Spaces in the past, but I didn't have much notes.

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Initial checks

Start by checking that there aren't any previous ssh keys inside the FIDO2 authenticator of your YubiKey. You can check if they exist by running the command below:

nix shell nixpkgs#yubikey-manager -c ykman fido credentials list

If the command above outputs a string mentioning "ssh" or "openssh", then you have already got a key generated and store on your YubiKey.

Evaluating additional authentication factors

Before generating a new ssh key to store on your YubiKey you must consider which additional required authentication factors you want to use. Below you can see a table with the available factors and their corresponding command: