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 ## Building and deploying the configuration
 
 If you do not have my private age key, the first step is to add your age keyfile to the /var/secrets folder with the name "keys.txt", in my case an age private key. If you don't have have an age private key you can generate one with the command
-``age-keygen -o /var/secrets/keys.txt``
+
+``age-keygen -o ~/.config/sops/age/keys.txt`` and copying this file to ``/var/secrets/``
 
 **Note: make sure this key is not readable by normal users, I made it owned by root, and gave the file 400 (read only for user) permissions. eg: ``chown 400 /var/secrets/keys.txt``**
 
-if you don't want to use sops remove the import from the configuration files; the import can be found under
+if you don't want to use [Sops](https://github.com/Mic92/sops-nix) secret management remove the import from the configuration files; the import can be found under
 ``hosts/shared/default.nix``
 
 Upon any of the above changes; also remove/replace the secret files, they can be found under the host configuration folders in