Turn any computer into an Athena workstation running a modern OS (not Ubuntu 14.04)!

This is a fork of adenhert's Nixathena repo to add support for Athena workstations, such as the ones in the SIPB office. Just add this flake to your NixOS config and now you have an Athena workstation! Some of the features require your machine to be on MIT Ethernet.

Special thanks to adehnert, andersk, and all other Debathena contributors for making this project possible!

• Run programs from lockers using athrun/attach/add (Python implementation, not the original C)
• The original Debathena login screen, now running on Wayland using labwc!
• Moira
• remctl and remctld
• Zephyr and BarnOwl
• SSH in using your Kerberos password or Kerberos tickets
• Use AFS as your home directory via pam-afs-session
• x86_64, aarch64, and i686 are all supported

Nixathena requires flakes to be enabled.

To run apps from this repo without installing anything, for instance Moira, just run nix run git+https://forgejo.mit.edu/SIPB/nixathena.git#moira.

To install all the Nixathena software, first add this repo as a flake input:

nixathena = {
  url = "git+https://forgejo.mit.edu/SIPB/nixathena.git";
  inputs.nixpkgs.follows = "nixpkgs";
};

Then, add the default module:

modules = [
  [...]
  inputs.nixathena.nixosModules.default
];

Finally, enable Nixathena in your NixOS config:

nixathena.enable = true;
# Uncomment this line to get a workstation where anyone can log in
# nixathena.workstation = true;

See this file for the list of configurable options for Nixathena.

Run tests: nix run .#test.meta

TODO: How to run aarch64 tests on x86_64? (nix run .#packages.aarch64-linux.test.meta will run the qemu-system-aarch64 using qemu-user-static-aarch64 which is really slow)

Build docs: nix build .#docs && install -m644 result/options.md docs

See the workstations repo for how to build a VM.

• CI
• Binary cache?
• Package more Athena software? (i.e. machtype?)
• More tests
• Figure out why attach with no args throws an error