NetworkManager rejects sops-encrypted Wi-Fi secrets on NixOS
NetworkManager ensureProfiles rejects SSID or password secrets from sops, so the Wi-Fi profile fails to load.
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7 public reports · first reported 9 October 2026 · last reported 9 October 2026
What's going wrong
On NixOS, people who keep their Wi-Fi network name and password in sops-encrypted files find that NetworkManager's ensureProfiles setting refuses those secrets, so the saved home Wi-Fi profile never loads.
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