Hi Maxim,
> I'm curious as to how SSH clients typically trigger 'pinentry' to
> prompt; perhaps Guile-SSH is lacking some feature here.
Exactly my point! :-)
> I hope someone in the know can tip in! In the meantime, you've already
> found a workaround (the use of an SSH agent).
Yup.
Thanks,
Hello Arun,
Arun Isaac writes:
> So, with an ssh-agent, guix build on a remote daemon works. But, I'd
> like it to work without an ssh-agent. Is that possible?
I've re-read the original issue and now I have a better understanding of
it; the manual mentions GUIX_DAEMON_SOCKET is handled via the
Hi Maxim,
I normally use neither OpenSSH's ssh-agent nor gpg-agent's ssh-agent
feature. But, when I do, it works. I didn't run into any pinentry issues
like you described. But, that's only because a passphrase entry is not
required at the time of `guix build'. Passphrase entry is required only
a
Hi Arun,
Arun Isaac writes:
> Hi Maxim,
>
>> I suspect this is due to changes in OpenSSH *client* that now refuse
>> older RSA keys for security reasons.
>
> This doesn't seem to be. Here's why: I have another machine that I ssh
> to using an unencrypted RSA key. I am able to connect to the Guix
Hi Maxim,
> I suspect this is due to changes in OpenSSH *client* that now refuse
> older RSA keys for security reasons.
This doesn't seem to be. Here's why: I have another machine that I ssh
to using an unencrypted RSA key. I am able to connect to the Guix daemon
on that machine without any tro
Hi,
Arun Isaac writes:
> I have an SSH key encrypted with a passphrase. When I try connecting to
> a remote guix daemon with that encrypted SSH key, it fails with the
> following error message.
>
> $ GUIX_DAEMON_SOCKET=ssh://foo guix build -v3 hello
> guix build: error: SSH authentication failed
I have an SSH key encrypted with a passphrase. When I try connecting to
a remote guix daemon with that encrypted SSH key, it fails with the
following error message.
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$ GUIX_DAEMON_SOCKET=ssh://foo guix build -v3 hello
guix build: e
