This is a tracking issue for the work on bashless activation.

This work is embedded in the larger effort described in this Discourse Post

It is a continuation of the work on Perlless Activation

Status

Available in nixos-unstable! Will land in 25.11.

Associated PRs

Merged

Master

• Improve security.audit{,d} #429553
• nixos/audit: fix journald test #432238
• nixos/filesystem: remove mount-pstore #432049
• nixos/network-interfaces: let networkd handle privacy extensions #431967
• nixos/test-instrumentation: use bash directly #432290
• nixos: allow more things to be disabled #432630
• nixos-init: init at 0.1.0 #433154
• doc: move nixos-init note to nixos doc #446997
• nixos-init: handle kernels without module support #447005
• nixos/timesyncd: cleanup & make it bashless #449937
• nixos/nixos-init: add more strict assertions for required config #450775

Staging

• kbd: split man & scripts outputs #417804
• cracklib: 2.10.0 -> 2.10.3: modernize & massively slim down #429797
• audit: 4.1.0 -> 4.1.1, enable uring support and bash completions #429438
• e2fsprogs: move scripts to separate output #431959
• systemd: remove bash #429972
• shadow: use /bin/sh as default shell #432117
• kbd: link compression libs directly #434001
• nixos/profiles/bashless: init #435428
• nixos/systemd/shutdown: make bashless #451355

Related Issues

• Link against compression libs directly instead of shelling out legionus/kbd#138
• RFE: allow reexecution of systemd when swiching root even if the next init binary isn't systemd systemd/systemd#38537
• Link against compression libs directly instead of calling compressing binary logrotate/logrotate#681